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Belfast's name is the anglicised version of the old Irish Beal Feirste meaning "mouth of the Farset". Belfast was part of the kingdom of Dál Riata from around 500 AD to the late 700s. [4] The Ford of Belfast existed as early as 665 AD, [5] when a battle was recorded as being fought at the site. [6] St.
1900 - Belfast had the world's largest tobacco factory, tea machinery and fan-making works, handkerchief factory, dry dock and color Christmas card printers. Belfast was also the world's leading manufacturer of "fizzy drinks" (soft drinks). [66] The city of Belfast is 75% Protestant, however, the whole island of Ireland is 75% Catholic. [68]
Queen's University Belfast was founded as a college in 1845. In 1908, the Catholic bishops lifted their ban on attendance and Queen's was granted university status.
Belfast currently has an 81-acre shipyard which was purposely developed to be able to take some of the world's largest vessels. ... which was founded in Belfast in ...
Founded: 1791; 234 years ago () Dissolved: ... But on reaching Belfast in October 1791, Tone found that Thomas Paine's response to Burke, the Rights of Man ...
Despite this, Northern Ireland was relatively peaceful for most of the period from 1924 until the late 1960s, except for some brief flurries of IRA activity, the Belfast blitz during the Second World War in 1941 and the Border Campaign from 1956 to 1962. It found little support among nationalists.
A Belfast man whose body was found in Spain had been stabbed and shot, his family said they have been told. John George, 37, a father-of-two from west Belfast, also known as John Hardy, had been ...
Methodist College Belfast founded by the church; it will open to pupils in 1868. Work begins on the building of the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, as a memorial to Queen Victoria's late Prince Consort, Prince Albert.