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The "peace line" along Cupar Way in West Belfast. Interface area is the name given in Northern Ireland to areas where segregated nationalist and unionist residential areas meet. They have been defined as "the intersection of segregated and polarised working class residential zones, in areas with a strong link between territory and ethno ...
Belfast Interface Project Interfaces Map (An interactive map locating all Interface barriers in Northern Ireland, surveyed in 2017) NI Department of Justice Interface Programme (established to deliver the commitment made by the Northern Ireland Executive to remove all Interface structures by 2023) Peace Lines Archived 14 June 2011 at the ...
Cluan Place (derived from Irish Cluain 'meadow') is a Protestant working-class area in eastern inner-city Belfast, in Northern Ireland. [1] There is currently a peace line, separating the area from Roman Catholic Short Strand. [1] [2] Rioting between neighbouring Loyalist and Republican factions has been a feature of the area's recent past.
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The Short Strand (Irish: an Trá Ghearr) is a working class, inner city area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is a mainly Catholic and Irish nationalist enclave surrounded by the mainly Protestant and unionist East Belfast. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Such a project was considered by railway engineer Luke Livingston Macassey in the 1890s as "a rail link using either a tunnel, a submerged "tubular bridge" or a solid causeway". [5] The north channel crossing was the subject of a 2020 study by the United Kingdom government.
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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]