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The Holy Cross dispute occurred in 2001 and 2002 in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the 30-year conflict known as the Troubles, Ardoyne had become segregated – Ulster Protestants and Irish Catholics lived in separate areas. This left Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls, in the middle of a Protestant area.
Holy Cross Church is a sandstone Catholic church in the Lombardic Romanesque style located at the intersection of the Crumlin Road and Woodvale Road in Ardoyne, Belfast. [1] The current church replaced an earlier house of worship that had stood on the same site since 1869.
The Holy Cross Girls' School, a Catholic primary school which serves the Ardoyne area but is located in the neighbouring loyalist Upper Ardoyne/Glenbryn area was the sign of tension of 2001 to 2003. Loyalists made claims about harassment by republicans and regarding the use of the school run as a cover for IRA intelligence gathering missions ...
Belfast-born actress, Zara Turner was cast as Ann McClure, a Catholic mother of three, struggling with day-to-day live in the Ardoyne, and is desperate to protect her children from the violent protests. As a mother, Turner found it easy to relate to her character and found that Holy Cross was a subject that needed to be talked about. Turner ...
One of the most famous is Holy Cross in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, which was the site of significant disputes in 2001 and 2002. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Another significant area is that between the lower Antrim Road and the lower Shore Road which was seen as such a flashpoint in 1994 that a three-metre high (10') 'peace wall' was added to Alexandra ...
The Ardoyne Road is an interface area, containing both republican and loyalist sections, and it was the scene of the Holy Cross dispute, a series of clashes between the two communities at a Catholic girls school in 2001 and 2002. The school is close to Alliance Avenue, the effective dividing line between republican Ardoyne and loyalist Glenbryn ...
Holy Cross dispute, surrounding Holy Cross Primary School in Ardoyne, Belfast in 2001 and 2002 Holy Cross (film) , a 2003 BBC television film based on the events of the Holy Cross dispute. See also
He was a key figure related to the Holy Cross dispute in which Loyalists sought to blockade a Catholic primary school in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast. [1] After his time on the Commission Dickson worked as a Professor of International and Comparative Law at Queen's University Belfast from 2005 until his retirement in 2017. [2]