11 Greenwood Avenue, Belfast
The Lettings Company is pleased to present this beautifully modern, fully furnished 1st floor 2 bedroom apartment to the rental market, situated in the highly sought after and quiet residential address of Greenwood Manor, Ballyhackamore, Belfast.
Cyprus Avenue August 06
Cyprus Avenue Belfast, the subject of Van Morrison's Classic off his famed 1968 album, Astral Weeks.
Roy Kane, who grew up with Morrison tells us that Cyprus Avenue ...was the street that we would all aspire to — the other side of the tracks ... the Beersbridge Road had the railway line cut across it; and our side of it was one side of the tracks and Cyprus Avenue was the other... there was an Italian shop up in Ballyhackamore, that's where all the young ones used to go of a Sunday... we used to walk up to the Sky Beam for an ice cream or a cup of mushy peas and vinegar... We used to take a short cut up Cyprus Avenue...
Morrison told biographer Ritchie Yorke that along with Madame George (which also references Cyprus Avenue) the song came to him in a stream of consciousness thing, Both those songs just came right out. I didn't even think about what I was writing.
Motorbiking From Belfast City Hall to Titanic Exhibition Centre
I'm continuing my series of motorbike rides round Belfast with a run from Belfast City Hall out to and round the recently developed Queen's Road, with the SS Nomadic Tender, PRONI, the Titanic Exhibition Centre, the Titanic Hotel with their restored Drawing Offices, the Titanic Film studios, the HMS Caroline and of course the .Harland and Wolff Cranes Samson and Goliath A lot has happened down here over the last 20 years. The landscape has been totally transformed into a tourist mecca.
I'm using my Honda VT 600 Shadow for this tour round. My head cam is a Victure Sports Action Camera WIFI 14MP Full HD 1080P.
Belfast | Wikipedia audio article
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Belfast
00:02:08 1 Name
00:03:30 2 History
00:03:51 2.1 Origins
00:04:54 2.2 Growth
00:06:55 2.3 The Troubles
00:08:33 2.4 21st century
00:08:59 3 Governance
00:09:36 3.1 Local government
00:11:45 3.2 Northern Ireland Assembly and Westminster
00:12:53 4 Geography
00:15:29 4.1 Climate
00:18:52 4.2 Areas and districts
00:22:43 5 Cityscape
00:22:52 5.1 Architecture
00:25:48 5.2 Parks and gardens
00:29:17 6 Demography
00:33:02 7 Economy
00:36:35 7.1 Industrial growth
00:38:55 8 Infrastructure
00:39:56 8.1 Utilities
00:41:18 8.2 Health care
00:42:29 8.3 Transport
00:47:18 9 Culture
00:52:13 9.1 Media
00:54:11 9.2 Sports
00:57:49 10 Notable people
00:57:58 11 Education
01:00:36 12 Tourism
01:02:12 13 Twin towns – sister cities
01:02:43 14 See also
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Belfast (Irish: Béal Feirste) is a city in the United Kingdom and the capital city of Northern Ireland, on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland and second largest on the island of Ireland. It had a population of 333,871 in 2015.By the early 1800s Belfast was a major port. It played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, becoming the biggest linen producer in the world, earning it the nickname Linenopolis. By the time it was granted city status in 1888, it was a major centre of Irish linen production, tobacco-processing and rope-making. Shipbuilding was also a key industry; the Harland and Wolff shipyard, where the RMS Titanic was built, was the world's biggest shipyard. It also has a major aerospace and missiles industry. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast Ireland's biggest city and it became the capital of Northern Ireland following the Partition of Ireland in 1922. Its status as a global industrial centre ended in the decades after the Second World War.
Belfast suffered greatly in the Troubles, and in the 1970s and 1980s was one of the world's most dangerous cities. However, the city is now considered to be one of the safest within the United Kingdom. Throughout the 21st century, the city has seen a sustained period of calm, free from the intense political violence of former years and has benefitted from substantial economic and commercial growth. Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland. Belfast is still a major port, with commercial and industrial docks dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline, including the Harland and Wolff shipyard. It is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport, and Belfast International Airport 15 miles (24 km) west of the city. It is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a Gamma minus global city.
Belfast | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:33 1 Name
00:04:02 2 History
00:04:24 2.1 Origins
00:05:34 2.2 Growth
00:07:53 2.3 The Troubles
00:09:40 2.4 21st century
00:10:40 3 Governance
00:11:20 3.1 Local government
00:13:41 3.2 Northern Ireland Assembly and Westminster
00:14:55 4 Geography
00:17:45 4.1 Climate
00:21:29 4.2 Areas and districts
00:25:50 5 Cityscape
00:25:59 5.1 Architecture
00:29:30 5.2 Parks and gardens
00:33:20 6 Demography
00:37:24 7 Economy
00:41:16 7.1 Industrial growth
00:43:49 8 Infrastructure
00:44:55 8.1 Utilities
00:46:24 8.2 Health care
00:47:41 8.3 Transport
00:53:34 9 Culture
00:58:56 9.1 Media
01:01:05 9.2 Sports
01:05:05 10 Notable people
01:05:15 11 Education
01:08:06 12 Tourism
01:10:46 13 Twin towns – sister cities
01:11:20 14 See also
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Belfast (; from Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning mouth of the Farset) is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland. It is the largest city in Northern Ireland and second-largest on the island of Ireland, after Dublin. It had a population of 333,871 as of 2015.By the early 19th century, Belfast became a major port. It played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, becoming the biggest linen-producer in the world, earning it the nickname Linenopolis. By the time it was granted city status in 1888, it was a major centre of Irish linen production, tobacco-processing and rope-making. Shipbuilding was also a key industry; the Harland and Wolff shipyard, which built the RMS Titanic, was the world's biggest shipyard. Belfast as of 2019 has a major aerospace and missiles industry. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast Ireland's biggest city and it became the capital of Northern Ireland following the Partition of Ireland in 1922. Its status as a global industrial centre ended in the decades after the Second World War of 1939–1945.
Belfast suffered greatly in the Troubles: in the 1970s and 1980s it was one of the world's most dangerous cities. However, a survey conducted by a finance company and published in 2016 rated the city as one of the safest within the United Kingdom. Throughout the 21st century, the city has seen a sustained period of calm, free from the intense political violence of former years, and has benefitted from substantial economic and commercial growth. Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as for the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland. Belfast is still a major port, with commercial and industrial docks, including the Harland and Wolff shipyard, dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline. It is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport and Belfast International Airport 15 miles (24 km) west of the city. The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) listed Belfast as a Gamma global city in 2018.
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Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann [ˈt̪ˠuəʃcəɾˠt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ] ( listen); 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. Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the UK's population. Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government. Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in some areas, and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to put forward views and proposals with determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments.Northern Ireland was created in 1921, when Ireland was partitioned between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland by the Government of Ireland Act 1920. Unlike Southern Ireland, which would become the Irish Free State in 1922, the majority of Northern Ireland's population were unionists, who wanted to remain within the United Kingdom. Most of these were the Protestant descendants of colonists from Great Britain. However, a significant minority, mostly Catholics, were nationalists who wanted a united Ireland independent of British rule. Today, the former generally see themselves as British and the latter generally see themselves as Irish, while a distinct Northern Irish or Ulster identity is claimed both by a large minority of Catholics and Protestants and by many of those who are non-aligned.For most of the 20th century, when it came into existence, Northern Ireland was marked by discrimination and hostility between these two sides in what First Minister of Northern Ireland, David Trimble, called a cold house for Catholics. In the late 1960s, conflict between state forces and chiefly Protestant unionists on the one hand, and chiefly Catholic nationalists on the other, erupted into three decades of violence known as the Troubles, which claimed over 3,500 lives and caused over 50,000 casualties. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement was a major step in the peace process, including the decommissioning of weapons, although sectarianism and religious segregation still remain major social problems, and sporadic violence has continued.Northern Ireland has historically been the most industrialised region of Ireland. After declining as a result of the political and social turmoil of the Troubles, its economy has grown significantly since the late 1990s. The initial growth came from the peace dividend and the links which increased trade with the Republic of Ireland, continuing with a significant increase in tourism, investment and business from around the world. Unemployment in Northern Ireland peaked at 17.2% in 1986, dropping to 6.1% for June–August 2014 and down by 1.2 percentage points over the year, similar to the UK figure of 6.2%. 58.2% of those unemployed had been unemployed for over a year.
Prominent artists and sportspeople from Northern Ireland include Van Morrison, Rory McIlroy, Joey Dunlop, Wayne McCullough and George Best. Some people from Northern Ireland prefer to identify as Irish (e.g., poet Seamus Heaney and actor Liam Neeson) while others prefer to identify as British (e.g. actor Kenneth Branagh). Cultural links between Northern Ireland, the rest of Ireland, and the rest of the UK are complex, with Northern Ireland sharing both the culture of Ireland and the culture of the United Kingdom. In many sports, the island of Ireland fields a single team, a notable exception being association football. Northern Ireland competes separately at the Commonwealth Games, and people from Northern Ireland may compete for either Great Britain or Ireland at the Olympic Games.