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Andersonstown, known colloquially as Andytown, is a suburb of west Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the foot of the Black Mountain and Divis Mountain. It contains a mixture of public and private housing and is largely a working-class area with a strong Irish nationalist and Irish Catholic tradition.
Casement Park (Irish: Páirc Mhic Asmaint) [4] [5] is the principal Gaelic games stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is located in Andersonstown Road in the west of the city, and is named after the Irish revolutionary Roger Casement. The stadium, which has been closed since June 2013, [3] previously had a capacity of approximately 31,500. [1]
The Falls Road (from Irish túath na bhFál 'territory of the enclosures' [1]) is the main road through West Belfast, Northern Ireland, running from Divis Street in Belfast City Centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. The name has been synonymous for at least a century and a half with the Catholic community in the city.
A55 links many of the main arterial routes within the city as well as creating a bypass of the often congested city centre and problematic A12 Westlink.Large sections of the route in east Belfast have been upgraded to dual carriageway standard with at-grade traffic light controlled junctions, together with off-road cycle paths alongside.
According to the 2021 census, out of the 333,748 people residing in Belfast city, 15.5% of people in the city have some knowledge of Irish, and 5.4% of the city's population claim to be able to speak, read, write and understand spoken Irish. 3.9% of people in the city use Irish daily and 0.8% speak it as their main language at home.
Upper Falls was one of the nine district electoral areas (DEA) which existed in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 1985 to 2014. Located in the west of the city, the district elected five members to Belfast City Council and contained the wards of Andersonstown; Falls Park; Glen Road; Glencolin; and Ladybrook.
16 February: the INLA fired shots at British soldiers on the Falls Road, Belfast. [72] 17 February: the INLA fired nearly fifty shots at a joint RUC-British Army mobile patrol in an ambush on the Andersonstown Road, Belfast. The leading RUC Land-Rover received fourteen rounds, bursting two tyres and nearly causing the driver to lose control.
Located on the road, is a small Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) known colloquially as "The Irish Houses", and in Irish as Bóthar Seoighe (meaning "Shaw's Road") and Pobal Feirste (meaning "Farset Community"). [1] This community was established in 1969 when five families from Belfast built