Dunno how much help this might be, if any. By a quirk of fate, a son-in-law of William and Sarah Nugent died at Percy Street during the German air raids of 1941. Hi,my McNallys, came from Killevy,Jonesboro,South Armagh, Just come across your inquiry about M'Nally Raglan St. if it's the same people Alice M'Nally married my fathers brother Thomas Flynn on 31st 05 1916. When the huts were vacated they were used by various groups including Fianna ireann. [2] The violence was partly in reaction to increasing Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacks and was fuelled by rhetoric from Unionist politicians. Families have to clean up a terrible mess. James Nugent was born on 19th May 1897 at Westmoreland Street and enlisted with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The Falls Road forms the centre of the Belfast West parliamentary constituency. On Raglan Street, a unit of about 14 IRA volunteers ambushed an armoured police truck, killing one officer and wounding at least two others. Near the start of Castle Street is Chapel Lane on which St. Mary's Church is situated. Name: MACALISTER, ALEXANDER: Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, RAGLAN STREET (& PANTON STREET), ST PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL: Date: 1878: Nature: New male and female . [13] Much of the violence took place along the sectarian boundary between the Protestant Shankill and Catholic Falls districts. In the late 19th century, with the rapid increase in the city population, there was an increasing need for cemeteries. In Northern Ireland an 18 year old could only vote if they were the named owner or named renter of a house. She is buried in Milltown Cemetery. McQuillan, J. The poem then explores the relationship between violence and language itself, as the disoriented speaker searches for an escape route. December 1894-Raglan St school disaster - Belfast Forum The Falls Leisure Centre is located in the lower Falls district. George Best Hotel, Donegall Square South, Belfast, BT1 6JH Currently being renovated, this boutique hotel is set to open in the summer of 2019 in the former Scottish Mutual Building. E: info@northernirelandscreen.co.uk. Sever Cemetery in Rouen and is commemorated on the Harland and Wolff memorial for the Queens Island shipyard. It closed in 1972 after a bombing. [56] who also funded the large fountain at the centre of the park which was designed by the English sculptor Arthur Ernest Pearce. There were several boys secondary schools in the area which have gone through a process of merging over the past forty years. There was also a family called Mc Nally who lived in Belgrade street ,off Raglan st. He was 24 years old and is buried in the St. The Dunlewey Centre[23] is located near Gaelscoil an Lonnin. He also owned several bars in the area. are available through our. [34], There were two Presbyterian churches. [51] Opposite was located the Clonard Picture House which closed in 1966. A predominantly working-class community, the Falls Road has historically had a strong socialist tradition, and, prior to the 1970s, had been less Irish nationalist than other areas of Northern Ireland. This was introduced in the late 19th century and replaced by trolleybuses in 1938. [1] These enclosures resulted from the Plantation of Ulster which occurred from the seventeenth century. I was brought up at 75 Sultan Street and was a pupil at St Peter's in Raglan Street before going on to Harding Street school. Belfast pogroms: 'The street was a mass of brain matter and blood' [31] This church which opened in 1856 was designed by Sir Thomas Drew who also designed St. Annes Cathedral and many other churches. [35] Nearby was located the Soho Foundry established by Robert Shipboy MacAdam in 1846. [84] St.Paul's was raised from "a district of St Peters" to the status of a parish in 1905. Father Alec Reid who played an important role in the Northern Ireland peace process was based here. GEE PETER. These have either been demolished or converted for other purposes. I remember him, his voice grave and resonant, his big, brown shoes, reading from Carrickfergus by Louis MacNeice. On 2nd November 1919, Albert Street Presbyterian Church was formally re-opened after an extensive scheme of renovation. Northern Ireland was part of the UK but the voting criteria were different to England, Scotland and Wales where a person could vote as soon as they became 18 years old. Some cattle also graze on the site. [1] See: The Troubles in Northern Ireland (19201922). His battalion was transferred to the Western Front with the 29th Division and was positioned on the Ulster Divisions left flank in the attack on 1st July 1916. [20] It has been transformed into a community hub for a range of community and business activities. This map was created by a user. It is home to St Peter's Schola Cantorum (Choir). The A501 continues as the Glen Road. The Presbyterian congregation was first launched in Conway Street National School in 1852 to meet the spiritual need of people living on the lower portion of the Falls Road and the district between the Falls and Shankill roads. Both Protestants and Catholics saw the truce as a victory for republicans. There were three pubs, Paddy Gilmartins which was called the Laurel Leaf, Peter Murrays [the West End Bar] directly opposite, or further down on the right-hand side was Charlie Gormleys, across from Finnegans the butcher shop. A total of 208 men from the congregation enlisted for service in the Great War, of whom 34 died. The Broadway Cinema which was situated near Beechmount was the largest of Belfast's suburban cinemas when it opened in 1936. In the 1960s, this school transferred to a greenfield site on the Glen Road in the upper Falls. [8] Its new reserve police force, the Ulster Special Constabulary (USC), was almost wholly Protestant and some of its members carried out reprisal attacks on Catholics. Most of the Catholic houses had three generations living in the same dwelling (because of housing discrimination) so only the mother and father could vote. The complex is a major training site for medical, dental, nursing and other health students from Queen's University Belfast. The pool closed in 1979 for public health reasons. Raglan Street Belfast [89] It was named after Cardinal Joseph MacRory who was Bishop of Down and Connor and then Primate of All Ireland in the early part of the twentieth century. [16] The New York Times characterised the clashes as "a three-fold fight between Sinn Fin and Unionist snipers and Crown forces". Investigators have been given more time to question a 24-year-old man arrested on suspicion of her abduction on Wednesday. As a research-based group, we are interested in locating these memorials and photographing them for posterity. Over 117 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2014, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen. Belfast saw almost 500 people killed from 1920 to 1922 in political and sectarian violence related to the Irish War of Independence (see The Troubles in Northern Ireland (19201922)). [83], St Paul's Church is located opposite the hospitals on the corner of Cavendish Street. It burned down in a fire in 1966. On 11 July, the Commandant of the IRA's 2nd Northern Division, Eoin O'Duffy, was sent to Belfast by the organization's leadership in Dublin to liaise with the British authorities there and try to maintain the truce. It added, "In the extent of material damage to property, Sunday's rioting can be compared to the Dublin Rising in 1916". [7] which had previously been called The Pound. These street names are recalled in the collection of poetry The Irish for No by Ciaran Carson. AND LOTS OF OTHERS. The past century has seen an ongoing contest between various versions of labour/socialist and nationalist/Irish republican for electoral leadership in the area. The same blood flowed in all their hearts, and there was the same desire on the part of all to stand for their country and their Empire. (Northern Whig, 3rd November 1919). [61] Most of these bars were demolished as part of the redevelopment of the area which occurred in the 1970s and 1980s. In his army will, Robert Nugent designated his mother as his next-of-kin. For the following three decades, the British Army maintained a substantial presence on the Falls Road, with a base on top of the Divis Tower. Women march through the Falls Road, undeterred by a military curfew imposed by the British Army during searches for arms. This was originally a parish church built for the expanding Catholic population in the area and opened in 1866. Four men died as a result of the violence during the curfew; three were shot by British soldiers and one was knocked down by an Army vehicle. Nearby is the location of the rd Scoil which was historically the centre for Irish language and culture in the area. While the truce ended fighting in most of Ireland, communal violence soon resumed in Belfast. Reply #2 on: August 09, 2008, 03:42:59 PM The re-opening service was also the occasion when a brass war memorial plaque, made by David Mairs of Great Victoria Street, was dedicated. The 77 route from the Gasworks to the Waterworks ran via Albert Street/Northumberland Street and cut across the Falls Road and the Shankill Road. In 1911, he was stationed at Mandora Barracks in Aldershot in 1911. St Peter's Primary School, Raglan street, Belfast - Facebook Take a trip down memory lane with these old. Five sons of William Nugent and Sarah Nugent (nee McFerran) of Percy Street enlisted for military service in the Great War. When it closed its congregation amalgamated with St. Stephens church in Millfield at the bottom of Divis Street. With Charlie being a roofer by trade. However the title of "Bloody Sunday" now more commonly refers in Ireland to events in Dublin in November 1920 or Derry in January 1972. The Belfast City Cemetery which is located at the bottom of the Whiterock Road, is a municipal cemetery maintained by the Belfast City Council and is one of the largest burial sites in the city. Name Runaghan, Alexander Rank Private Regiment 6th Connaught Rangers - Service No. Thomas McNally 78 McDonnell St. However, there are numerous memorial plaques and parchment rolls of honour whose current locations are not known to me. The largest was located on the other side of the peace wall dividing Townsend Street which links Divis Street with Peter's Hill, the lower Shankill Road. Many of the streets were named after local mill owners. Belfast BT2 8ED Northern Ireland, T: +44 (0)28 90 232444 I may be gone for. [20], Two Catholic fathers, James McGuinness and Daniel Hughes, were killed in separate incidents by loyalist snipers while rushing to bring their children home. An RT News report broadcast on 6 July 1970. Belfast: Top 30 Haunted Places To Visit | Spooky Isles Temporary barricades were constructed to provide residents with some security. It is run by the Legion of Mary and was originally located at the corner of Percy Street.[16]. [23] Most of the dead were civilians and at least four of the Catholic victims were former soldiers who served in the First World War. [120], Many Unionists saw NICRA as an Irish republican Trojan horse, designed to destabilize Northern Ireland, and force unionists into a united Ireland. Nearby was the Hungarian Flour Mill owned by Bernard Hughes. The church congregation merged with that of St. Simons church on the Donegall Road. At that time, the Upper Falls was a rural area and the city council and the Catholic Church decided to buy large spaces in the area to create cemeteries. 1895 - YMCA, Wellington Place, Belfast, Co. Antrim - Architecture of Belfast, Lost Buildings of Ireland - Archiseek - Irish Architecture Lezli Hanley Northern Ireland Troubles These are representations of local and national political issues and figures. On the corner of Conway Street was located Greeves' Mill (original owner Thomas Greeves of Strandtown, Belfast) and also the Conway Mill (original owner James Kennedy of nearby Clonard). The final services in the Albert Street church were held on Sunday 31st January 1971 and led by the Reverend Brian Moore. In expressing his thoughts about the discovery of the memorial plaque, Michael said, This means a lot to me. Reply #28 on: January 07, 2014, 06:32:31 PM TOM MC NALLY OWNED THE STRAND BAR IN BERRY STREET OFF ROYAL AVENUE AND ANOTHER ONE IN DENMARK STREET.MY GRANDMOTHER'S BROTHER PETER LIVED 18,BALACLAVA STREET WHEN HE MARRIED JANE MATCHETT IN ST.PAT'S RC, DONEGAL STREET.ALSO A TAILOR. [86], Near Beechmount is located Willowfield Park which has a number of playing fields. The war memorial organ was dedicated on 3rd April 1921. Ian Paisley insisted the RUC remove the Irish tricolour or he would organise a march and remove it himself. List of Streets in Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Google Maps and Raglan Street Today in Irish History - July 10 1921 - Belfast's Bloody Sunday. [81], At the higher education level, there is St Mary's University College which is part of Queen's University Belfast. I was intrigued but when he opened the boot of his car and showed me the brass memorial plaque, I was astounded. Nigel continued, Many memorials and rolls of honour for the Great War were lost during the German air raids of 1941. RT Archives | War and Conflict | Belfast Curfew Broken Page created in 0.107 seconds with 19 queries. He died just three days before his 18th birthday and has no known grave. Devlin, who had once been a member, alongside Diamond, of the Belfast branch of the Irish Labour Party, became a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1970 and remained a member until Parliament was prorogued in 1972. The congregation later established the Shankill Road Mission. The Falls Road (from Irish tath na bhFl 'territory of the enclosures' [1]) is the main road through West Belfast, Northern Ireland, running from Divis Street in Belfast City Centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. The building reopened as a catholic church under the same name in 1970. [10] This attack sparked three days of loyalist violence, during which at least 14 people were killed, including three Catholics who were taken from their homes and killed by uniformed police. Raglan Street | The Irish Story . [33] It closed in 1994 and was sold to Dwyers Gaelic Athletic Club who built their clubrooms on the site. [101] In 2019, it was decided to admit boys and to reduce the overall student numbers to 1500. This was originally a football stadium and the home of Belfast Celtic F.C. Scotland, and Wales, who in the middle stages of the war were obliged to serve in His Majestys forces whether they liked to do so or not. The nearby Ross Road is also named after William Ross.[25]. Sign in. Taggart, Mrs. Norah 2. Please contact us via email or on facebook. Besides teacher training it now offers a range of degree courses. 3rd Floor Alfred House Three were to survive but two lost their lives and are commemorated on this memorial plaque. It has been demolished and replaced by housing but its name survives in the street name Ross Mill Avenue. Just past it was located the Hastings Street RUC station. This is not an exhaustive list and will be amended as further information comes to light. Pictured: Belfast in the 1960s and when The Beatles came to town There are also memorials that are missing for commercial concerns, for example Dunville the whiskey manufacturers and Gallahers of York Street. There are several large bars in the middle Falls area. Open full screen to view more. This was removed in August 2005 as part of the British government's normalisation programme, following the Provisional Irish Republican Army's statement that it was ending its armed activities. [70] The original hospital opened in 1797 and moved to its present site in 1903. Belfast (Falls Area mainly- Leeson St) & Lisburn - Magee,Mooney, Adair,Darragh, Burns,Martin,Donegan, Thanks Artygirl perhaps you could ask her if she knew Morgans. This was established in 1909 as St Mary's Training College to train women as teachers. 3,000 British troops sealed off the streets around the Falls Road, home to about 10,000 people, setting off 1,600 canisters of CS gas. [20] The inquest into her death concluded that they had "deliberately" shot the girl and added: "In the interests of peace, Special Constabulary should not be allowed into localities of people of opposite denominations". The last British soldier to be killed on the road itself was Private Nicholas Peacock, killed by a booby trap bomb left outside the Rock Bar, opposite the top of the Donegall Road on 1 February 1989. Many of these were in church buildings whose congregations have folded or merged with other congregations. One of three Carnegie libraries built in Belfast is situated in the lower Falls Road. Tara - I'm a McNally, and my dad was born on Raglan Street. The area is composed largely of residential housing, with more public sector housing in the lower sections of the road. Tweet: List of Streets in Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Google Maps and Street View Photos. On one side is the Bank Buildings and on the other is the former home of the Anderson & McAuley department store. On the [123] These attacks increased during the 1969 Northern Ireland riots when whole streets in the Falls Road area were destroyed by loyalists from the Shankill Road area. [68], There are several large hospitals in the area including the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Royal Jubilee Maternity Service, the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (Children's Hospital), and the Royal Dental Hospital. Recommended option. St Comgall's Public Elementary School, in Divis Street, opened in 1932 but closed in 1988. As its name implies, the Andersonstown Road leads to the Andersonstown district and the on out of the city. [12] The high point of this redevelopment was Divis Tower. Montgomery said many of the men whose names were on the memorial plaque had been baptised by him. [13], Past Albert Street, more mills were built on the northern side and more streets of small terraced houses on the southern side. It was closed and demolished in 2005. It amalgamated with St Joseph's Training College (for male trainee teachers) in 1985. Recently, war researcher, Mark Ramsey met up with History Hub Ulster researcher Nigel Henderson and passed over the brass war memorial plaque to him. It was built as a chapel of ease to St Peter's Cathedral and celebrated its first Mass in July 1887. The Falls Road is designated one of the quality bus corridors (QBCs) within the city with a variety of different routes.[115]. The name of the latter school survives in the name of St. Galls' Avenue. [15] The road is notable for its listed early Victorian and Edwardian mansions. At the senior level, there is St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls. My great grandmother Catherine Robinson lived at number 55 with her sons Thomas, Joseph and Albert. In addition, there is the Irish language Gaelscoil an Lonnin which occupies the site of St. Finian's Primary School at the top end of Leeson Street. [26] St Peter's Cathedral is located just off Albert Street. A military. About 200 houses were destroyed or badly damaged, most of them Catholic homes, leaving 1,000 people homeless. It has a community garden and allotment site. [53] The Arcadian cinema on Albert Street opened in 1912 but closed in 1960.[54]. A strong working class community, the Lower Falls has a history of storytelling, music and song which was often enjoyed in the many public houses in the area. During the 1970s it was occupied by the British Army who called it Fort Pegasus. [4][5] In nearby Lisburn, Banbridge and Dromore loyalists burnt hundreds of Catholic businesses and homes. Violence broke out in Belfast on 21 July 1920, when Protestant Loyalists drove 8,000 "disloyal" co-workers from their jobs in the Belfast shipyards, mostly Catholics and some Protestant labour activists. This is a series of images of international figures who have been involved in various liberation struggles. [63], On some walls along the main road have been painted large murals. On July 11th, 1921, a truce was signed between the IRA and the British government that eventually led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty that December, but it was not observed in the North.. At the foot of Divis Street is located the Morning Star House. Mein Nisinta Seirbhse Poibl na hireann, Riverdance and Ireland Win Eurovision Again. In the Divis Street area, the housing was replaced with the Divis Flats complex which consisted of twelve blocks of flats built on top of the historic district formerly known as the Pound Loney. Learn how to create your own. It is now the site of an Irish Language school. [37] The Maureen Sheehan Centre is now located on the site of the church. Belfast City Centre. [11], By the 1960s the buildings in the area had decayed considerably and the Belfast Corporation introduced a major development plan which involved wholescale demolition of much of the area. The Twin Spires Complex has replaced the demolished massive mill of the New Northern Spinning and Weaving Company (Craig's Mill) which was located at the corner of Northumberland Street. Nearby on Bank Street is located the historic Kelly's Cellars bar which dates from 1720. It provides a service from Poleglass via the Falls Road-City Centre and Newtownards Road to Dundonald. [94] Nearby, at the corner with Broadway, is the new ras na bhFl, the home of Iontaobhas na Gaelscolaochta - the Trust Fund for Irish-Medium Education. [123] In response to the worsening situation, the British Government deployed the British Army on the Falls Road to protect the Catholics from further attacks. Station Street, Belfast 3 44 Smithfield, Belfast 1 1 York Road, Belfast 15 Dunmurry Sunnyhill Park 1959 1. It was funded by Robert G Dunville, the owner of the nearby Dunville & Co whiskey distillery. At the junction with the Glen Road was located the Andersonstown RUC station which was the most attacked police station in Northern Ireland. [3] More than 50 people were killed in rioting between Protestants and Catholics. At the junction with Westlink is located the large public sculpture formally called RISE but informally known as the balls on the Falls. The young men of that congregation, and of Ulster generally, answered the call from within when they knew the motherland was in peril, and indeed not they alone, but Ulstermen all over the worldin Canada, the United States of America, and Australia. Between Northumberland Street and Percy Street is located Andrews Flour Mill. [4] A tram travelling from the Falls into the city centre was struck by snipers' bullets, and the service had to be suspended. In the poem, an unnamed speaker appears to be caught up in a bomb blast and tries to escape. The housing in the area developed in the 19th century and was organised in narrow streets of small terraced housing. Scouts alerted the IRA of the raid by blowing whistles, banging dustbin lids and flashing a red light. One soldier who attempts to stop them loses his helmet, recovering it again when he is helped by a civilian. This original area, which was centred on the junction of modern-day Millfield and College Avenue on what is now Divis Street, was known as Falls and lent its name to the road. BUY TWO IMAGES, GET THE LOWEST PRICE IMAGE HALF PRICE WITH CODE: 50%OFFNEXTIMAGE. I am trying to find out some information on them too I know that Great Granny was a Farrell (Balkan Street) and there was a Thomas Anderson who owned a Chip shop in Raglan Street. NHS staff).[65]. The short stretch of the road from the city centre to the start of Divis Street at Millfield is known as Castle Street after the former Belfast Castle which was built nearby by the Normans in the 12th century. On the site, the original Church of Ireland church was erected in 1892. The Falls Road (from Irish tath na bhFl'territory of the enclosures'[1]) is the main road through West Belfast, Northern Ireland, running from Divis Street in Belfast City Centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. These are St. Peter's[18] on Ross Road and St. Joseph's[19] on Slate Street. [49] On 16 April 1941, it was the site of a temporary morgue following the Belfast Blitz. albert street presbyterian church Archives - History Hub Ulster [121][122] Several streets around the Falls Road were burnt out by armed 'B' Specials (Police Reserve) and loyalists in August 1969, with the murder of six Catholics on the first night marking the start of 'The Troubles. Pin by tony newley on Maps | Belfast northern ireland, Northern ireland [112] At the junction with the Glen Road, is located Milltown Cemetery, maintained by the Catholic Church, which opened in the same year. For much of the route in forms the northern boundary of Andersonstown and then Lenadoon. [25], O'Duffy set up headquarters in St Mary's Hall in Belfast city centre and made contact with British forces and the press. [92] The centre also houses the Irish language bookshop An Ceathr Pil. It is located on the site of a former Methodist meeting house.[111]. [28][29] Clonard monastery,[30] the home of the Redemptorist religious order, is located near the junction with Springfield Road. [26], The violence of the period in Belfast was cyclical, and the events of July 1921 were followed by a lull until a three-day period starting on 29 August, when another 20 people died in the west and north of the city.[27]. Re: McNally Family - Raglan Street - Belfast ? Alexander Street West was named after John Alexander who was a local mill owner. Craig Street was called after the Craig family who owned the New Northern Mill at the corner of Northumberland Street. [60] The Centre Half Bar which was located at the corner of Panton Street and the Falls Road was named by the licensee Mickey Hamill who played for both Belfast Celtic and Glasgow Celtic as well as Manchester United and Manchester City. [24] IRA members later recalled, "The Truce was not observed by either side in the north", while McCorley said the truce in Belfast "lasted six hours only". In 2018, the Glider bus service was introduced. A military curfew was imposed on the area that night and gun battles followed during the thirty four hours of its duration. [4] Another Catholic, William Tierney (56), was killed in his home by USC gunfire which shattered his window. 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