With the official cessation of violence by some of the major paramilitary organisations and the creation of the power-sharing executive at Stormont in Belfast under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the Saville Inquiry's re-examination of the events of that day is widely hoped to provide a thorough account of the events of Bloody Sunday.

The Ulster Museum is also located in Belfast.

Belfast is one of the most visited cities in the UK, and the second most visited on the island of Ireland.

The Belfast City Council is currently investing into the complete redevelopment of the Titanic Quarter, which is planned to consist of apartments, hotels and a riverside entertainment district.

Belfast is twinned with:

is: Belfast

It is approximately from Belfast and from Dublin.

The CIRA continues to oppose the Belfast Agreement and, unlike the Provisional IRA ( and the Real IRA in 1998 ), the CIRA has not announced a ceasefire or agreed to participate in weapons decommissioning — nor is there any evidence that it will.

* 1914 –, sister to the, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

There is also a connection between Liverpool and Belfast via the Isle of Man.

Twescard is preserved as the name of a school house at Campbell College, Belfast.

For the purposes of the Act, "... Northern Ireland shall consist of the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry, and Southern Ireland shall consist of so much of Ireland as is not comprised within the said parliamentary counties and boroughs.

* 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

* 1910 – The hull of the, sister-ship to the ill-fated, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The part of Ireland referenced is the vicinity of Belfast.

* The Belfast Agreement ( a. k. a. the Good Friday Agreement ) is signed by U. K. and Irish politicians on 10 April 1998, declaring a joint commitment to a peaceful resolution of the territorial dispute between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom over Northern Ireland.

* April 10 – Good Friday: 1 hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.

* October 20 – The hull of the RMS Olympic is launched at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.

* February 19 – The DeLorean Motor Company Car Factory in Belfast is put into receivership.

* Belfast Academy ( later Belfast Royal Academy ) is founded by Rev.

* The oldest existing English language newspaper in the world, The ( Belfast ) News Letter, is founded in Ireland.

** In Northern Ireland, Protestant Ulster Defence Association Belfast leader John Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.

* The diphthong is pronounced approximately, but wide variation exists, especially between social classes in Belfast

* Belfast Botanic Gardens open.

The area now known as the New Lodge was once open farmland within the original 17th century city walls of the town of Belfast.

He spent a short time teaching before returning to Ireland to receive the money his grandfather had left him, purchase some Belfast linens and laces, and return to New York to open a store.

Once these two sections had closed, only the line between Belfast and Bangor remained open.

While it had been hoped to open the line in November 1847, this was put back by the need to raise the embankment along the shore of Belfast Lough.

* November 16-The Prince of Wales travels to Belfast for the first time to open the new parliament building at Stormont.

Professor Watson was head boy at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution during 1961-1962 from where he won an open scholarship in Classics to King's College, Cambridge.

The IoD currently has around 40, 000 members, and has premises open for the use of those members in London ( 3 locations ), Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich, Paris, and Reading.

Cross-border services ( e. g. Dublin city centre to Belfast ) are run primarily by a partnership of Ulsterbus and Bus Éireann with some services run across the border exclusively by one of the two companies ( e. g. Derry – Sligo run by Bus Éireann ).

Carrickfergus is classified by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ) as a large town ( i. e. population between 18, 000 and 75, 000 people ) and within the Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area ( BMUA ).

After a gap of around 30 years, new high-rise flats are once again being built in Belfast, Birmingham ( some are for wealthy people, e. g. The Mailbox, others are student accommodation ), Cardiff, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Newcastle upon Tyne ; but this time sometimes for wealthy professionals, rather than the ` lower classes `.

Some district councils, in Northern Ireland ( which is part of the United Kingdom ), e. g. Belfast, also meet with maces present.

Lisburn Urban Area is within Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area ( BMUA ) and is classified as a Large Town by the NI Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ) ( i. e. with population between 18, 000 and 75, 000 people ).

Bangor is classified by the NI Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ) as a large town ( i. e., with a population between 18, 000 and 75, 000 ) within the Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area ( BMUA ).

Twenty-four members elected by the House of Commons of Northern Ireland elected using the Single Transferable Vote ( STV ), elected in blocks of twelve with each senator's term lasting for two parliaments ( i. e. two House of Commons ) and two ex-officio members: the Lord Mayor of Belfast and Mayor of Londonderry.

Holywood Urban Area is a medium town within the Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area ( BMUA ) as classified by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency ( i. e. with population between 10, 000 and 18, 000 people ).

Newtownabbey Urban Area is classified as a large town ( i. e. with population between 18, 000 and 75, 000 people ) by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ) and is within the Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area ( BMUA ).

The Commissioners were created by an Act of Parliament in 1847 and the organisation is often referred to as " Trust Port ", i. e. their role is to manage, maintain, and improve the port of Belfast.