Belfast
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the capital of Northern Ireland, a port on Belfast Lough in Belfast district, Co Antrim and Co Down: became the centre of Irish Protestantism and of the linen industry in the 17th century; seat of the Northern Ireland assembly and executive. Pop: 276 459 (2001)
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a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim and Co Down. Pop: 271 596 (2003 est). Area: 115 sq km (44 sq miles)
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For centuries the city has been the site of violent conflict between Protestant and Roman Catholic residents.
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Queen's University Belfast also removed a £35,000 bust from its grounds.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The inquest heard how the schoolboy went out onto streets beside his home in the Holylands area of Belfast in the early hours of the day of his disappearance.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
It's been more than six years since teenager Noah Donohoe was found dead 600m into a freezing underground water tunnel in Belfast.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
But one thing was very clear at the inquest – there was no evidence of any physical interaction between Noah and anyone else during his final bicycle ride from his home to north Belfast.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
He was born in 1824 in Belfast, the son of a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical Institution who soon after transferred to Glasgow.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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