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High Street, Belfast, c.1906. Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, and throughout its modern history has been a major commercial and industrial centre.In the late 20th century manufacturing industries that had existed for several centuries declined, particularly shipbuilding.
Malnutrition was also a major issue for families both in the Free State and Northern Ireland, with a 9.6% infant mortality rate in Belfast, compared with 5.9% in Sheffield, England. Maternity was more dangerous in Northern Ireland than in England or the Free State, with maternal mortality rising by a fifth between 1922 and 1938.
A 1685 plan of Belfast by the military engineer Thomas Phillips, showing the town's ramparts and Lord Chichester's castle, which was destroyed in a fire in 1708. The name Belfast derives from the Irish Béal Feirste (Irish pronunciation: [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə]), [4] "Mouth of the Farset" [6] a river whose name in the Irish, Feirste, refers to a sandbar or tidal ford. [7]
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The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited Belfast City Hall.
Northern Ireland's main airport, Belfast International Airport, at Aldergrove, is in County Antrim. Belfast International shares its runways with 38 Brigade Flying Station Aldergrove, which otherwise has its own facilities. [11] It is the fifth-largest regional air cargo centre in the UK.
From the late 19th century, the majority of people living in Ireland wanted the British government to grant some form of self-rule to Ireland. The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) sometimes held the balance of power in the House of Commons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a position from which it sought to gain Home Rule, which would have given Ireland autonomy in internal affairs ...
History of Ireland (1169–1536), when England invaded Ireland; History of Ireland (1536–1691), when England conquered Ireland; History of Ireland (1691–1801), the time of the Protestant Ascendency; History of Ireland (1801–1923), when Ireland was merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United Kingdom