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The Short Strand (Irish: an Trá Ghearr) is a working class, inner city area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is a mainly Catholic and Irish nationalist enclave surrounded by the mainly Protestant and unionist East Belfast.
The 2002 Short Strand clashes, also known as the siege of Short Strand, was a series of major sectarian violence and gun battles in and around the Short Strand area of east Belfast – a mainly Irish/Catholic enclave surrounded by Protestant communities.
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Jan 13, 2020 · Brennan, a member of the Irish republican movement, grew up in Short Strand, a staunchly Catholic, working-class neighborhood in predominantly Protestant east Belfast. Since the late 1960s, a bloody, 30-year guerrilla war was waged throughout Northern Ireland, leaving over 3,600 dead.
Dec 7, 2020 · Northern Ireland's oldest cinema is celebrating its 85th birthday. The Strand, in east Belfast, a relic from the golden age of cinema in the city, was opened on 7 December 1935 by the Union...
The Strand Arts Centre, also known as Strand Cinema is an independent four-screen cinema on Holywood Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is one of the two remaining independent cinemas in Belfast, alongside the Queen's Film Theatre .
Oct 12, 2006 · Short Strand to remember its fallen. Thirty years ago, on 16 October, the night sky over Belfast suddenly turned bright orange. I watched this strange occurrence with other republican prisoners from the top landing of C Wing in Crumlin Road jail and wondered about the source of it. It was not long before we heard on the radio that an explosion ...
Read a Short History of the Strand. Strand Cinema opened its doors on 7 December 1935, with one screen and 1170 seats. It was designed by John McBride Neill – a prolific local cinema architect – who also designed the Curzon (Ormeau Road), the Majestic (South Belfast), and the Tonic (Bangor).
