At first, the movie presents this moment in the city’s history as a more innocent time. We see the lead character, a young boy named Buddy (Jude Hill), playing with his friends in their terraced ...

Samantha takes in the sights, sounds and fascinating history of Belfast. Samantha begins her tour of Northern Ireland with a moving stop at the Peace Wall in East Belfast. From there, she heads to ...

For much of its history Belfast has been the industrial dynamo of Ireland. During the 19th century it was Ireland’s largest city, and during the last half of the 19th century it was the fastest ...

No history of Belfast could ever hope to be objective, and, entirely to his credit, Feargal Cochrane doesn’t even try. His excellent “Belfast: The Story of a City and Its People” is written very much ...

The "peace line" between Falls Road and Shankill Road doesn't just start in 1969 but it's modern embodiment 50 years on, remains A 'peace line' has been in place in Belfast since September 1969, ...

One of the great ports of the Victorian era, Belfast was, until recently, hardly synonymous with tourism. But following 1998’s historic Good Friday Agreement, which helped end decades of sectarian ...

Belfast, with about 350,000 residents, is Ireland’s second-largest city, considerably smaller than Dublin (population 550,000), about 100 miles south. The main downtown tourist zone in Belfast is ...

The sinking of the Titanic is a very significant event in pop culture. Between the 1997 film (my first ever in a theater!), the beginning of Downton Abbey and countless exploration shows, we’re ...

Daniel Mendelsohn, at the close of his article about our enduring fascination with the Titanic disaster, mentions Morgan Robertson’s 1898 novel, “Futility,” which, with uncanny prescience, described ...

Belfast City Council has formally agreed to try to buy the Assembly Rooms in Belfast and take the historic building out of private ownership. The cost of the planned purchase, and some adjacent land, ...