Falls Road, Belfast
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The Falls Road 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 c
Falls Road looking towards Divis flats and the city centre
The view from the Falls Road to the city centre, 1981
Children playing near Falls Road, Belfast, 1981
Divis Street, Belfast, May 2011
Shankill Road
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The Shankill Road is one of the main roads leading through West Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It runs through the working-class, predominantly loyalist, area known as the Shankill.
Falls Road, Belfast
…the Plantation of Ulster which occurred from the seventeenth century. This territory was roughly the same as that of the ecclesiastical parish of the Shankill, which spanned a large portion of modern-day Belfast. The road was originally a country lane running east toward Belfast, increasingly populated on…
Divis Mountain from the Shankill
Loyalists and Orangemen looting Catholic owned bars and spirit grocers, in Shankill Rd, 19 August 1872
Shankill Graveyard, the site of the old church, as it looked in 1915.
UDA mural in the Shankill (removed June 2006).