Churchill then decided to embark on a British cruiser, the Belfast, and watch the landings from offshore.
D-Day Historian Craig Symonds Talks About History’s Most Amazing Invasion|Marc Wortman|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
King George VI begged him to consider what a blow it would be to England should the Belfast be hit by a chance bomb.
D-Day Historian Craig Symonds Talks About History’s Most Amazing Invasion|Marc Wortman|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A meeting was held of the top IRA leaders in Belfast with only one item on the agenda: what to do with McConville.
Sinn Fein Boss Gerry Adams Wanted This Murder Bust|Ed Moloney|May 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The unit was, according to Hughes, answerable to Adams, the Belfast commander.
Sinn Fein Boss Gerry Adams Wanted This Murder Bust|Ed Moloney|May 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We shot it in Belfast at a legit hut on location rather than a studio.
‘Game of Thrones’ Star Maisie Williams, aka Arya Stark, on Her Big Premiere Episode ‘Two Swords’|Marlow Stern|April 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Belfast resolved on waiting "to see what the South would do," and the South waited for Belfast.
Speeches from the Dock, Part I|Various
It is asserted there that soda water was invented in Belfast.
One Irish Summer|William Eleroy Curtis
Cork, unfortunately, is not growing as Dublin and Belfast are.
Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland|T. O. Russell
She impressed upon him, as she had upon all his colleagues the appalling wickedness of shooting the citizens of Belfast.
The Red Hand of Ulster|George A. Birmingham
All the Belfast mill-owners send their sons there, so's they can be made into imitation Englishmen.
Changing Winds|St. John G. Ervine
British Dictionary definitions for Belfast
Belfast
/ (ˈbɛlfɑːst, bɛlˈfɑːst) /
noun
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)
a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim and Co Down. Pop: 271 596 (2003 est). Area: 115 sq km (44 sq miles)