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The facility has its origins in a private house in Donegall Street where a lying-in hospital was established in 1794. [1] It moved to larger premises in Townsend Street in November 1904. [1] The current facility was built on a site previously occupied by the Belfast Asylum, to the immediate south of the Royal Victoria Hospital. [2]
Its first hospital on Townsend Street in Roxbury held 45 beds. The new hospital addressed the needs of immigrants who spoke Yiddish without speaking English and for patients who kept a kosher diet. In 1928, Beth Israel established relationships with Tufts University and the Harvard Medical School and relocated to a new facility in the Longwood ...
A new block, incorporating a new accident and emergency unit, a new out-patients department, a new radiology department, an operating theatre suite and a 35-bed maternity unit, [4] opened at the hospital in 1989. [5] During the COVID-19 pandemic the Mater became Belfast's dedicated hospital for COVID-19 patients. [6]
Albert Memorial Clock. The tallest building in Belfast is the Obel Tower at 86 metres (282 feet). It is the tallest building in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland. The tallest structure in Belfast is the Black Mountain transmission station, servicing TV and Radio, at 228.6 m (750 ft 0 in).
The Arc at night in 2010. The Arc is a residential development located beside Abercorn Basin in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast, Northern Ireland.It contains 474 residential properties, a hotel, and a number of retail units, split across three buildings.
Belfast Exposed houses a 20×7 m gallery for the exhibition of contemporary photography, digital archive browsing facilities, a spacious black and white photographic darkroom and a digital editing suite in its Donegall Street premises. [6] It was established "to challenge and subvert media representations of the Troubles-torn city". [5]
It was initially located on Chichester Street in Belfast City Centre but moved to Templemore Avenue in Mountpottinger in 1892. [1] The first X-ray machine at the hospital was installed in 1920 and Dr Beath was employed to operate it. [1] While located in Mountpottinger the hospital was severely damaged in the Belfast Blitz in 1941. [2]
27 December 1972: an IRA volunteer (Eugene Devlin, aged 22) was killed by the British Army during an attempted sniper attack on their patrol, Townsend Street, Strabane, County Tyrone. [53] 28 December 1972: an IRA volunteer (James McDaid, aged 30) was shot dead by the British Army while walking across a field, Ballyarnet, County Londonderry. [53]