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Shankill Road

Index Shankill Road

The Shankill Road is one of the main roads leading through west Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. [1]

188 relations: A6 road (Northern Ireland), Abstentionism, Alan McCullough (loyalist), Albert Foundry F.C., Amy Carmichael, Andy Tyrie, Antrim, County Antrim, Ardoyne, Association football, Ballygomartin Road, Battle at Springmartin, Battle of the Somme, Bayardo Bar attack, Belfast, Belfast Blitz, Belfast Boys' Model School, Belfast City Centre, Belfast City Council, Belfast Model School for Girls, Belfast Shankill (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Belfast Shankill (UK Parliament constituency), Belfast West (Assembly constituency), Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency), Belfast Woodvale (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Belfast Woodvale (UK Parliament constituency), Belgium, Benny Lynch, Bernard McQuirt, Billy Boyd (politician), Billy Ferguson, Billy Hull, Billy Hutchinson, Bloomsbury Publishing, Boxing, Brendan McFarlane, Cambrai, Canada national cricket team, Charles Harding Smith, Church of Ireland, Combined Loyalist Military Command, Commonwealth Games, Court (District Electoral Area), Cricket, Crumlin Road, Davy Larmour (boxer), Davy Payne, Democratic Unionist Party, Desmond Boal, Divis, Edward Carson, ..., Falls Road, Belfast, Flanders, Frank McCoubrey, Frankie Curry, George McCartney, George McWhirter, George O'Boyle, Gerry Adams, Glasgow, Government of Ireland Bill 1886, Gusty Spence, Harland and Wolff, Henry Holmes (Northern Ireland politician), Hugh Smyth, Independent Unionist, Independent Unionist Association, Ireland at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Irish Catholics, Irish language, Irish National Liberation Army, Irish Unionist Alliance, Isaac Nelson, Jack Higgins, Jackie Mahood, James Craig (loyalist), James Kilfedder, Jim Spence (loyalist), Jimmy Warnock, John McKeague, John McQuade, John William Nixon, Johnny Adair, Kirk Hunter, Lenny Murphy, Linen, Linfield F.C., Lisburn Road, List A cricket, Loyalist feud, Loyalist Volunteer Force, Luftwaffe, Mackie International, Malone College, Belfast, Manchester United F.C., Marco McCullough, Martin Dillon, May Blood, Baroness Blood, Methodism, Metro (Belfast), Mo Courtney, Molotov cocktail, Mount Gilbert Community College, Namibia national cricket team, Neville Martin, Norman Whiteside, North Down (UK Parliament constituency), Northern Amateur Football League, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly, Northern Ireland Labour Party, Northern Ireland local elections, 2011, Northern Ireland national football team, Orange Order, Parliament of Northern Ireland, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Pat Finucane, Peace lines, People Before Profit, Phil Gray, Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Progressive Unionist Party, Protestantism, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Queen Victoria, Rangers F.C., Red Hand Commando, Red Hand Defenders, Republic of Ireland, Ringfort, River Farset, River Lagan, Robert Harcourt, Robert Lynn (politician), Robert McCartney (Northern Irish politician), Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Royal Irish Constabulary, Samuel McGuffin, Sectarianism, Shamrock, Shankill Butchers, Shankill Defence Association, Shankill Graveyard, Shankill Road bombing, Shankill United F.C., Sinn Féin, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Springfield Road, Stephen McKeag, Terry Bradley, The Independent, The Sunday People, The Troubles, Tommy Henderson, Tommy Lyttle, Tommy Waite, Translink (Northern Ireland), Transport NI, Trefoil, UK Unionist Party, Ulster Defence Association, Ulster loyalism, Ulster Political Research Group, Ulster Scots dialects, Ulster Unionist Labour Association, Ulster Unionist Party, Ulster Volunteer Force, Ulster Volunteers, Vancouver, Victoria College, Belfast, Victoria Cross, Wayne McCullough, Westlink (road), William Conor, William Marchant (loyalist), William McCullough (loyalist), William Stobie, Woodvale Cricket Club, Woodvale Defence Association, Working class, World War I, World War II, 1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, 1992 Summer Olympics, 2005 ICC Trophy, 36th (Ulster) Division. Expand index (138 more) »

A6 road (Northern Ireland)

The A6 road in Northern Ireland runs from the Belfast to Derry, via Antrim.

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Abstentionism

Abstentionism is standing for election to a deliberative assembly while refusing to take up any seats won or otherwise participate in the assembly's business.

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Alan McCullough (loyalist)

Alan McCullough (July 1981 – 28 May 2003) was a leading Northern Irish loyalist and a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).

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Albert Foundry F.C.

Albert Foundry Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club from Belfast playing in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League.

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Amy Carmichael

Amy Wilson Carmichael (16 December 1867 – 18 January 1951) was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur.

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Andy Tyrie

Andrew "Andy" Tyrie (born 5 February 1940) is an Ulster loyalist and served as commander of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) during much of its early history.

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Antrim, County Antrim

Antrim is a town and civil parish in County Antrim in the northeast of Northern Ireland, on the banks of the Six Mile Water, half a mile northeast of Lough Neagh.

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Ardoyne

Ardoyne is a working class and mainly Catholic and Irish nationalist district in north Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Ballygomartin Road

Ballygomartin Road is a cricket ground in the Greater Shankill area of Belfast, Northern Ireland and the home of Woodvale Cricket Club.

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Battle at Springmartin

The Battle at SpringmartinCusack, Jim & McDonald, Henry (1997).

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Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme (Bataille de la Somme, Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and France against the German Empire.

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Bayardo Bar attack

The Bayardo Bar attack took place on 13 August 1975 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Belfast

Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.

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Belfast Blitz

The Belfast Blitz consisted of four German air raids on strategic targets in the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland, in April and May 1941 during World War II, causing high casualties.

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Belfast Boys' Model School

Belfast Boys' Model School (previously the Belfast Model School or Belfast District Model School) is a boys only secondary school located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Belfast City Centre

Belfast City Centre is the central business district of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Belfast City Council

Belfast City Council (Comhairle Cathrach Bhéal Feirste; Ulster-Scots: Bilfawst Citie Cooncil) is the local authority with responsibility for part of the city of Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland.

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Belfast Model School for Girls

Belfast Model School for Girls is an all-girls' school located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Belfast Shankill (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Belfast Shankill was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

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Belfast Shankill (UK Parliament constituency)

Shankill, a division of Belfast, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland.

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Belfast West (Assembly constituency)

Belfast West (Ulster Scots: Bilfawst Wast) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)

Belfast West is a parliamentary constituency (seat) in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Belfast Woodvale (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Belfast Woodvale was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

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Belfast Woodvale (UK Parliament constituency)

Woodvale, a division of Belfast, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Benny Lynch

Benjamin Lynch (2 April 1913 – 6 August 1946) was a Scottish professional boxer who fought in the flyweight division.

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Bernard McQuirt

Bernard McQuirt VC (1829 – 5 October 1888) was born in Donaghcloney near Lurgan, County Armagh and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Billy Boyd (politician)

Billy Boyd (born 1923) was a politician from Northern Ireland.

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Billy Ferguson

William Ferguson (28 May 1938 – 31 October 1998) was a Northern Irish footballer who played as a winger.

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Billy Hull

William "Billy" Hull (born 1912)WD Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968–1993, Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 185 was a loyalist activist in Northern Ireland.

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Billy Hutchinson

Billy "Hutchie" Hutchinson (born 1955) is the leader of the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Brendan McFarlane

Brendan "Bik" McFarlane (born 1951) is an Irish republican activist.

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Cambrai

Cambrai (Kimbré; Kamerijk; historically in English Camerick and Camericke) is a commune in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river.

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Canada national cricket team

The Canada national cricket team is organised by Cricket Canada, which became an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1968.

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Charles Harding Smith

Charles Harding Smith (24 January 1931 – 1997) was a loyalist leader in Northern Ireland and the first effective leader of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).

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Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Combined Loyalist Military Command

The Combined Loyalist Military Command was an umbrella body for loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland set up in the early 1990s, recalling the earlier Ulster Army Council and Ulster Loyalist Central Co-ordinating Committee.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Court (District Electoral Area)

Court is one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Crumlin Road

The Crumlin Road is a main road in north-west Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Davy Larmour (boxer)

David "Davy" Larmour (born 2 April 1952) is a former boxer from Northern Ireland who as an amateur won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1974 and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and as a professional won the British bantamweight title in 1983.

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Davy Payne

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Democratic Unionist Party

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland.

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Desmond Boal

Desmond Norman Orr Boal (8 August 1928 – 23 April 2015) was a unionist politician and barrister from Northern Ireland.

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Divis

National Trust brochure --> Divis is a large mountain and area of sprawling moorland to the north-west of Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Edward Carson

Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson, PC, PC (Ire), KC (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935), from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge.

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Falls Road, Belfast

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.

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Flanders

Flanders (Vlaanderen, Flandre, Flandern) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, although there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics and history.

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Frank McCoubrey

Frank McCoubrey (born 5 February 1967) is a Unionist politician and loyalist in Northern Ireland, as well as a community activist and researcher.

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Frankie Curry

Frankie Curry (c.1955 – 17 March 1999) nicknamed "Pigface",McDonald & Cusack, p. 284 was an Ulster loyalist who was involved with a number of paramilitary groups during his long career.

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George McCartney

George McCartney (born 29 April 1981) is a Northern Irish footballer.

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George McWhirter

George McWhirter (born September 26, 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish-Canadian writer, translator, editor, teacher and Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate.

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George O'Boyle

George O'Boyle (born 14 December 1967 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer and is joint manager of NIFL Premier Intermediate League side Lisburn Distillery.

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Gerry Adams

Gerard Adams (Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who was the Leader of the Sinn Féin political party between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth since the 2011 general election.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Government of Ireland Bill 1886

The Government of Ireland Bill 1886, commonly known as the First Home Rule Bill, was the first major attempt made by a British government to enact a law creating home rule for part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Gusty Spence

Augustus Andrew "Gusty" Spence (28 June 1933. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 5 April 2011. – 25 September 2011) was a leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and a leading loyalist politician in Northern Ireland.

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Harland and Wolff

Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries is a heavy industrial company, specialising in ship repair, conversion, and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Henry Holmes (Northern Ireland politician)

Henry Holmes (9 July 1906 – 8 July 1992), often known as Harry Holmes, was a politician in Northern Ireland.

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Hugh Smyth

Hugh Smyth, OBE (1941 – 12 May 2014) was a Northern Irish politician who was leader of the Progressive Unionist Party.

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Independent Unionist

Independent Unionist has been a label sometimes used by candidates in elections in the United Kingdom, indicating a support for Unionism.

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Independent Unionist Association

The Independent Unionist Association or Independent Unionist Party was a political party in Northern Ireland.

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Ireland at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Ireland competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

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Irish Catholics

Irish Catholics are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland that are both Catholic and Irish.

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Irish language

The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.

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Irish National Liberation Army

The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA, Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group formed on 10 December 1974, during "the Troubles".

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Irish Unionist Alliance

The Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), also known as the Irish Unionist Party or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded in Ireland in 1891 from the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union to oppose plans for Home Rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Isaac Nelson

Isaac Nelson (1809 – 8 March 1888 Myrtle Hill, ‘Nelson, Isaac (1809–1888)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004) was a Presbyterian minister and an Irish Nationalist politician.

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Jack Higgins

Henry Patterson (born 27 July 1929), known by his pen name Jack Higgins, is a British writer.

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Jackie Mahood

Jackie Mahood (born c. 1954) is a Northern Irish former loyalist activist with both the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Progressive Unionist Party (PUP).

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James Craig (loyalist)

James Pratt Craig (17 November 1941 – 15 October 1988) was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary during the paramilitary war in Ulster in the latter half of the 20th Century, who was a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), and was a command member of its Inner Council.

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James Kilfedder

Sir James Alexander Kilfedder (16 July 1928 in Kinlough, County Leitrim – 20 March 1995) was a Northern Ireland unionist politician.

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Jim Spence (loyalist)

Jim Spence (born c. 1960Lister & Jordan, p. 95) is a Northern Irish former loyalist activist.

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Jimmy Warnock

James Warnock (1912 in Lurgan – 1987) was a southpaw boxer from the Shankill Road, Belfast, United Kingdom.

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John McKeague

John Dunlop McKeagueWD Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland A Political Directory 1968–1993, The Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 222 (1930 – 29 January 1982) was a prominent Ulster loyalist and one of the founding members of the paramilitary group the Red Hand Commando in 1970.

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John McQuade

John McQuade (9 August 1911 – 19 November 1984), known as Johnny McQuade, was a Northern Ireland politician.

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John William Nixon

John William Nixon, MBE (1880 – 11 May 1949) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland who was alleged to be responsible for several atrocities, including the McMahon killings.

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Johnny Adair

Jonathan Adair (born 27 October 1963), better known as Johnny Adair or Mad Dog Adair, is an Ulster loyalist and the former leader of the "C Company", 2nd Battalion Shankill Road, West Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).

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Kirk Hunter

Kirk Hunter (born 2 October 1965) is a retired Northern Irish footballer.

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Lenny Murphy

Hugh Leonard Thompson Murphy, best known as Lenny Murphy (2 March 1952 – 16 November 1982), was an Ulster loyalist gang leader believed responsible for ordering the Shankill Butchers murders, most of which occurred while he was in jail.

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Linen

Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.

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Linfield F.C.

Linfield Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Lisburn Road

Lisburn Road is a main arterial route linking Belfast and Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

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List A cricket

List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket.

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Loyalist feud

A loyalist feud refers to any of the sporadic feuds which have erupted almost routinely between Northern Ireland's various loyalist paramilitary groups during and after the ethno-political conflict known as the Troubles broke out in the late 1960s.

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Loyalist Volunteer Force

The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) is a small Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

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Mackie International

James Mackie & Sons was a textile machinery engineering plant and foundry in Northern Ireland.

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Malone College, Belfast

Malone Integrated College is a grant maintained, integrated, co-educational, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic secondary school, situated in south-west Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Marco McCullough

Marco McCullough is a Northern Irish featherweight boxer.

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Martin Dillon

Martin Dillon (born 2 June 1949) is a Northern Irish author, journalist, and radio/television producer/broadcaster.

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May Blood, Baroness Blood

May Blood, Baroness Blood, MBE (born 26 May 1938) is a Labour member of the British House of Lords.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Metro (Belfast)

Metro is the trading name for bus company Citybus in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Mo Courtney

William Samuel "Mo" Courtney (born 8 July 1963) was an Ulster Defence Association (UDA) activist.

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Molotov cocktail

A Molotov cocktail, also known as a petrol bomb, bottle bomb, poor man's grenade, Molotovin koktaili (Finnish), polttopullo (Finnish), fire bomb (not to be confused with an actual fire bomb) or just Molotov, commonly shortened as Molly, is a generic name used for a variety of bottle-based improvised incendiary weapons.

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Mount Gilbert Community College

Mount Gilbert Community College was a mixed, non-denominational secondary school created in 1993 as an amalgamation of Forth River and Cairnmartin secondary schools.

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Namibia national cricket team

The Namibia cricket team is governed by Cricket Namibia, an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1992, at CricketArchive and became part of the High Performance Program in 2007.

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Neville Martin

John Wesley Neville Martin (1916–17 April 1966) was a Northern Irish politician who served as a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Ulster Unionist Party.

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Norman Whiteside

Norman Whiteside (born 7 May 1965) is a former Northern Ireland international footballer who played in two World Cups.

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North Down (UK Parliament constituency)

North Down is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

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Northern Amateur Football League

The Northern Amateur Football League, also known as the Northern Amateur League and often simply as the Amateur League, is an association football league in Northern Ireland.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Northern Ireland Assembly

The Northern Ireland Assembly (Tionól Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlan Assemblie) is the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland.

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Northern Ireland Labour Party

The Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) was a political party in Northern Ireland which operated from 1924 until 1987.

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Northern Ireland local elections, 2011

Elections for local government were held in Northern Ireland on Thursday 5 May 2011, contesting 582 seats in all.

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Northern Ireland national football team

The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international association football.

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Orange Order

The Loyal Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order, is a Protestant fraternal order based primarily in Northern Ireland.

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Parliament of Northern Ireland

The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the Home Rule legislature of Northern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which sat from 7 June 1921 to 30 March 1972, when it was suspended with the introduction of Direct Rule.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Pat Finucane

Patrick Finucane (21 March 1949 – 12 February 1989), commonly known as Pat Finucane, was an Irish human rights lawyer killed by loyalist paramilitaries acting in collusion with the British government intelligence service MI5.

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Peace lines

The peace lines or peace walls are a series of separation barriers in Northern Ireland that separate predominantly Republican and Nationalist Catholic neighbourhoods from predominantly Loyalist and Unionist Protestant neighbourhoods.

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People Before Profit

People Before Profit (PBP) is a socialist, and Eurosceptic political party formed in October 2005.

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Phil Gray

Philip "Phil" Gray (born 2 October 1968) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer.

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Presbyterian Church in Ireland

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI; Eaglais Phreispitéireach in Éirinn, Ulster-Scots: Prisbytairin Kirk in Airlann) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Ireland, and the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland.

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Prince Andrew, Duke of York

Prince Andrew, Duke of York, (Andrew Albert Christian Edward, born 19 February 1960) is a member of the British royal family.

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Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, (Henry William Frederick Albert; 31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974) was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary.

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Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, (born Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004) was the wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary.

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Progressive Unionist Party

The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) is a small unionist political party in Northern Ireland.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA or Provisional IRA) was an Irish republican revolutionary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate the reunification of Ireland and bring about an independent socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Rangers F.C.

Rangers Football Club are a football club in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premiership, the first tier of the Scottish Professional Football League.

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Red Hand Commando

The Red Hand Commando (RHC) is a small secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, which is closely linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).

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Red Hand Defenders

The Red Hand Defenders (RHD) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Ringfort

Ringforts, ring forts or ring fortresses are circular fortified settlements that were mostly built during the Bronze age up to about the year 1000.

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River Farset

The River Farset (An Fhearsaid or Abhainn na Feirste in Irish) is a river in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which gave the city its name.

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River Lagan

The River Lagan (Ulster Scots: Lagan Wattèr) is a major river in Northern Ireland which runs 53.5 miles (86 km) from the Slieve Croob mountain in County Down to Belfast where it enters Belfast Lough, an inlet of the Irish Sea.

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Robert Harcourt

Sir Robert John Rolston Harcourt, JP (1902 – 25 August 1969) was a Northern Irish politician.

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Robert Lynn (politician)

Sir Robert John Lynn (1873 – 5 August 1945) was an Ulster Unionist Party politician.He was elected at the Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast Woodvale from 1918 general election to 1922, and when that constituency was abolished for the 1922 general election he was returned for Belfast West, holding the seat until he stood down at the 1929 general election.

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Robert McCartney (Northern Irish politician)

Robert Law McCartney, QC (born 24 April 1936) is a Northern Irish barrister and a former leader of the UK Unionist Party.

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Royal Belfast Academical Institution

The Royal Belfast Academical Institution, is a grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Royal Irish Constabulary

The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, Irish: Constáblacht Ríoga na hÉireann; simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the police force in Ireland from the early nineteenth century until 1922.

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Samuel McGuffin

Samuel McGuffin (1863–1952) was Labour Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast Shankill in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922, and Ulster Unionist MP in the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Belfast North from 1921 to 1925.

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Sectarianism

Sectarianism is a form of bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching relations of inferiority and superiority to differences between subdivisions within a group.

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Shamrock

A shamrock is a young sprig, used as a symbol of Ireland.

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Shankill Butchers

The Shankill Butchers was an Ulster loyalist gang—many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)—that was active between 1975 and 1982 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Shankill Defence Association

The Shankill Defence Association was a loyalist vigilante group formed in May 1969 for the defence of the loyalist Shankill Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland during the communal disturbances that year.

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Shankill Graveyard

The Shankill Graveyard is one of the oldest cemeteries in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Shankill Road bombing

The Shankill Road bombing was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 23 October 1993 and is one of the most notorious incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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Shankill United F.C.

Shankill United Football Club is a Northern Irish, intermediate football club playing in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League.

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Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin (isbn) is a left-wing Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Social Democratic and Labour Party

The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland.

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Springfield Road

The Springfield Road is a residential area and road traffic thoroughfare adjacent to the Falls Road in west Belfast.

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Stephen McKeag

Stephen McKeag (1 April 1970 – 24 September 2000), nicknamed "Top Gun", was a Northern Irish loyalist and a Commander of the Ulster Defence Association's (UDA) 'C' Company in the 1990s.

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Terry Bradley

Terry Bradley (born 1965, Belfast) is an artist from Northern Ireland.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Sunday People

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper, founded as The People on 16 October 1881.

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The Troubles

The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century.

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Tommy Henderson

Thomas Gibson Henderson (13 October 1887 – 14 August 1970) was an Independent unionist politician.

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Tommy Lyttle

Tommy "Tucker" Lyttle (c. 1939 – 18 October 1995), was a high-ranking Ulster loyalist during the period of religious-political conflict in Northern Ireland known as "the Troubles".

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Tommy Waite

Thomas "Tommy" Waite (born 11 March 1972 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish professional bantam/super bantamweight boxer of the 1990s and 2000s who won the Irish bantamweight title, and Commonwealth bantamweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from, i.e. bantamweight to, i.e. super bantamweight.

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Translink (Northern Ireland)

Translink is the brand name of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (NITHCo), a public corporation in Northern Ireland which provides the public transport in the region.

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Transport NI

Transport NI is the public body responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of highways and roads in Northern Ireland.

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Trefoil

Trefoil (from Latin trifolium, "three-leaved plant") is a graphic form composed of the outline of three overlapping rings used in architecture and Christian symbolism.

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UK Unionist Party

The UK Unionist Party (UKUP) was a small unionist political party in Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2008 which was opposed to the Good Friday Agreement.

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Ulster Defence Association

The Ulster Defence Association (abbreviated UDA) is the largest Ulster loyalist paramilitary and vigilante group in Northern Ireland.

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Ulster loyalism

Ulster loyalism is a political ideology found primarily among working class Ulster Protestants in Northern Ireland, whose status as a part of the United Kingdom has remained controversial.

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Ulster Political Research Group

The Ulster Political Research Group is an advisory body connected to the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), providing advice to them on political matters.

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Ulster Scots dialects

Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch), also known as Ullans, is the Scots language as spoken in parts of Ulster in Ireland.

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Ulster Unionist Labour Association

The Ulster Unionist Labour Association was an association of trade unionists founded by Edward Carson in June 1918, aligned with the Ulster Unionists in Northern Ireland.

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Ulster Unionist Party

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland.

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Ulster Volunteer Force

The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

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Ulster Volunteers

The Ulster Volunteers was a unionist militia founded in 1912 to block domestic self-government (or Home Rule) for Ireland, which was then part of the United Kingdom.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Victoria College, Belfast

Victoria College, Belfast is a voluntary non-denominational Independent grammar school in Cranmore Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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Wayne McCullough

Wayne Pocket Rocket McCullough (born Wayne William McCullough; 7 July 1970) is a former professional boxer from Northern Ireland who competed from 1993 to 2008.

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Westlink (road)

The Westlink road in Belfast, Northern Ireland is a dual carriageway throughpass, designated the A12, connecting the M1 to the M2 and M3 motorways which run south, north and east of the city, respectively.

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William Conor

William Conor OBE RHA RUA ROI (1881–1968) was a Belfast-born artist.

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William Marchant (loyalist)

William "Frenchie" Marchant (c. 1948 – 28 April 1987) was a Northern Irish loyalist and a high-ranking volunteer in the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).

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William McCullough (loyalist)

William "Bucky" McCullough (1949 – 16 October 1981) was a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary with the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).

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William Stobie

William "Billy" Stobie (1950 – 12 December 2001) was an Ulster Defence Association (UDA) quartermaster and RUC Special Branch informerCory Collusion Inquiry Report: Patrick Finucane 1 April 2004 who was involved in the shootings of student Brian Adam Lambert in 1987 and solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989.

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Woodvale Cricket Club

Woodvale Cricket Club is a cricket club in Belfast, Northern Ireland, playing in Section 1 of the NCU Senior League.

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Woodvale Defence Association

The Woodvale Defence Association (WDA) was an Ulster loyalist vigilante group in the Woodvale district of Belfast, an area immediately to the north of the Shankill Road.

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Working class

The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing

The Balmoral Furniture Company bombing was a paramilitary attack that took place on 11 December 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992; Catalan: Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1992.

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2005 ICC Trophy

The 2005 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament held in Ireland between 1 July and 13 July.

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36th (Ulster) Division

The 36th (Ulster) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of Lord Kitchener's New Army, formed in September 1914.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankill_Road

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