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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. The district is sometimes colloquially referred ...
The Belfast Media Group's Andersonstown News is a weekly published (Wednesdays) Belfast, Northern Ireland newspaper, which focuses on news and issues in west Belfast. The paper was founded in 1972. [ 1] Its stablemates, the North Belfast News and South Belfast News, are published weekly. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the ...
1976 Andersonstown incident. / 54.56967°N 5.99017°W / 54.56967; -5.99017. The 1976 Andersonstown incident or the 1976 Andersonstown-Finaghy incident, was a brief altercation between members of the Provisional IRA and the British Army, in Andersonstown and North Finaghy, in August 1976. Which resulted in the deaths of 3 children who ...
More than 1,000 anti-racism protesters gathered at Belfast City Hall on Friday to oppose an anti-immigration protest at the same location. About 200 people gathered for it and police land rovers ...
The OIRA denied responsibility for the attack, and a sympathy notice appeared in The Irish News from the Co-ordinating Committee of Andersonstown Republican Clubs, the OIRA's political wing. 13 January - The OIRA shot dead a civilian (Christopher Daly) whom they accused of arms dealing at Balholm Drive, Ardoyne, Belfast.
Jonathan McCambridge, PA. August 5, 2024 at 9:32 AM. Police believe that more violence linked to planned anti-immigration protests is likely in Belfast in the coming days, a court has heard. A ...
e. The Irish People's Liberation Organisation was a small Irish socialist republican paramilitary organisation formed in 1986 by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), whose factions coalesced in the aftermath of the supergrass trials. It developed a reputation for intra-republican and sectarian violence ...
Joe Graham was the eighth of twelve children born to Jim and Kitty Graham. He was raised in what was then the newly built Ballymurphy housing estate in the west of the city. He attended St. John's Public Elementary School and later St. Thomas's Secondary Intermediate School. One of his teachers was Michael McLaverty, who himself wrote stories ...