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The Shankill Road (from Irish Seanchill, meaning 'old church' [3]) is one of the main roads leading through West Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It runs through the working-class, predominantly loyalist, area known as the Shankill. The road stretches westwards for about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from central Belfast and is lined, to an extent, by shops.
Belfast Shankill was created by the division of Belfast North into four new constituencies. It survived unchanged, returning one member of Parliament, until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.
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Taughmonagh (from Irish Tuath Monach 'tribe of Monaigh') [1] is a small housing estate in south west Belfast, Northern Ireland, within the civil parishes of Drumbeg and Shankill, and barony of Belfast Upper. Taughmonagh has become known for being a staunchly loyalist estate. [2] [3] [4]
Shankill, County Down, a parish situated partly in Counties Down and Armagh; Shankill, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh; Shankill Road, a road and electoral ward in West Belfast, passes through an area known as The Shankill; Republic of Ireland. Shankill, County Roscommon, a civil parish in County Roscommon
The most prominent peace lines in the past few years separate the nationalist Falls Road and unionist Shankill Road areas of West Belfast; the nationalist Short Strand from the unionist Cluan Place areas of East Belfast, the unionist Corcrain Road and the nationalist Obins Drive in Portadown and the unionist Fountain Estate and nationalist ...
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the parliamentary borough of Belfast had been divided into four divisions: Belfast East, Belfast North, Belfast South and Belfast West. Under the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918, it was increased to nine divisions. [1] Shankill was created from Belfast North and was defined as: [2]
The commander of the Shankill Butchers was Lenny Murphy. Murphy was the youngest of three sons of Joyce (née Thompson) and William Murphy from the loyalist Shankill Road area of Belfast. At school, he was a known bully and would threaten other boys with a knife or with retribution from his two older brothers.