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Strand Bar bombing. The Strand Bar Bombing was a bomb attack on a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 12 April 1975, during the Troubles. The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, threw an improvised bomb into a pub frequented by Catholics in the Short Strand neighbourhood, killing six civilians and injuring about fifty ...
26 June 1972: A British soldier was shot dead by an IRA sniper while on mobile-patrol in the Short Strand area of Belfast. [52] 26 June–8 July 1972: The IRA declared a ceasefire in order to allow talks with the British government.
Origins. Nestled against the River Lagan, the parish, which is generally known as the "Short Strand", spreads from the Lower Newtownards Road along the Short Strand itself across the Albert Bridge Road and takes in the Mountpottinger and Seaforde Street areas to its borderline of Bryson Street. It is a close-knit parish of 2,600 people where ...
Short Strand Community Tourism. The Short Strand is a history fraught with conflict; its geographical layout on the fringes of Unionist East Belfast has drawn it directly into the annals of sectarian warfare that has engulfed Belfast dating back to 1857. Previous. Next.
But Short Strand is a much more energetic place, socially and politically. The Lord Mayor of Belfast, for example, is a local Sinn Fein member, Niall O Donnghaile, elected last month aged just 25.
Murder of Robert McCartney. The murder of Robert McCartney occurred in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on the night of 30 January 2005 and was carried out by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. McCartney, born in 1971, was a Roman Catholic and lived in the predominantly nationalist Short Strand area of east Belfast, and was said by his ...
The Short Strand is a history fraught with conflict; its geographical layout on the fringes of Unionist East Belfast has drawn it directly into the annals of sectarian warfare that has engulfed Belfast dating back to 1857. Visit Short Strand Website. Eastside Voices Tour.
