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An Irish nationalist mural on Beechfield Street in Short Strand, showing British troops leaving Ireland and wishing them Slán Abhaile. 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 ...
Jan 13, 2020 · The barrier in the background is a peace wall separating them from the Catholic Short Strand neighborhood, east Belfast, Northern Ireland. Steven Grattan/The World In 1998, a peace deal known as the Good Friday Agreement was signed between the British and Irish governments and most political parties in Northern Ireland, but sectarian violence ...
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The Battle of St Matthew's or Battle of Short Strand [1] was a gun battle that took place on the night of 27–28 June 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was fought between the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and Ulster loyalists in the area around St Matthew's Roman Catholic church. This lies at the edge of the Short Strand, a ...
- 27-28 June 1970
- IRA victoryLoyalists withdraw from area
Jan 29, 1998 · A History of Conflict in the Short Strand 1886 - 1997. Published by The Ballymacarrett Research Group. Over the past two years The Ballymacarrett Research Group (BRG) has been engaged in extensive research which has resulted in a book on the history of the Short Strand area of Belfast. Set in Ballymacarrett, just east of the Lagan, the district ...
Oct 12, 2006 · Losing Paul, Joey and Francis was a massive blow, not only to their families but to the IRA in Belfast and in particular in the Short Strand. All were former political prisoners and experienced IRA activists. The Strand is a very small area. By October 1976 the war had been going on for over six years.
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 ...
