Springfield Road
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The Springfield Road is a residential area and road traffic thoroughfare adjacent to the Falls Road in west Belfast. The local population is predominantly Irish nationalist and republican. Along parts of the road are several interface area with the neighbouring Ulster loyalist areas of the Greater Shankill. The Springfield Road includes the Ballymurphy and New Barnsley districts and is overlooked by Black Mountain and Divis.
Bilingual street sign at the junction with the Falls Road
An 18-foot-high (5.5 m) barrier along Springmartin Road in Belfast, with New Barnsley police station at one end
Whiterock Orange Hall, where the riots began
A mural on the Springfield Road accusing the British authorities of involvement in loyalist activity
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 century and a half with the Catholic community in the city. The road is usually referred to as the Falls Road, rather than as Falls Road. It is known in Irish as the Bóthar na bhFál and as the Faas Raa in Ulster-Scots.
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