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.

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

Frances ' daughter, Christine Lynch, appeared in an episode of the television programme Antiques Roadshow in Belfast, broadcast on BBC One in January 2009, with the photographs and one of the cameras given to the girls by Conan Doyle.

* 2004 – A gang of thieves steal £ 26. 5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history.

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 ).

President Robinson jointly hosted a reception with the Queen at St. James's Palace, London, in 1995, to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Queen's Colleges in 1845 ( the Queen's Colleges are now known as Queen's University of Belfast, University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Galway ).

* March 19 – Corporals killings: In Belfast, Northern Ireland, British Army Corporals Woods and Howes were murdered after driving straight into a funeral for the victims of the Milltown Cemetery Attack just three days earlier, after they were mistakenly thought to be carrying out a similar attack to the one by Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) member Michael Stone, in which he killed three Catholics attending the funeral.

The town also supports one of the largest and most successful youth theatres in Ireland ( Droichead Youth Theatre ) which has toured to Belfast, London, Italy, and Sweden.

There are eight High Sheriff positions throughout Northern Ireland: one for each of the counties and for the two major cities of Northern Ireland ( the High Sheriff of Belfast and the High Sheriff of Londonderry City ).

The borough is the location of international-standard museums and galleries ; the Imperial War Museum and its outpost HMS Belfast moored at the Pool, Dulwich Picture Gallery the oldest public gallery in Britain, and one of the most modern, the Tate Modern.

It was designed by architect Isaac Hodgson, who was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1826 and immigrated to the United States in 1848 ; he designed six Indiana courthouses, including the one in Henry County.

Omagh was one of the first areas in Northern Ireland, outside the Belfast commuter belt, to transfer to broadband internet.

As brigadier of the West Belfast UDA Adair was entitled to one of the six seats on the organisation's Inner Council and in this role Adair, who wanted to continue on the path of violence, clashed frequently with East Antrim brigadier Joe English, who advocated seeking a peace settlement.

In Northern Ireland there is only one W H Smith High Street store, located in Belfast City centre with three travel locations at Belfast City Airport, Belfast International Airport and the other at City of Derry Airport which opened on 9 September 2010.

These included all MPs elected to sit for Belfast city, Counties Down, Antrim, Armagh, and Londonderry ( as opposed to Londonderry City ), two out of three MPs for County Tyrone and one out of two MPs for County Fermanagh.

Thin Lizzy were founded one night in late December 1969 in Dublin, Ireland, when Belfast guitarist Eric Bell met up with organist Eric Wrixon in a pub and found that they shared an ambition to form a group.

At the height of the bombing, the middle of Belfast " resembled a city under artillery fire ; clouds of suffocating smoke enveloped buildings as one explosion followed another, almost drowning out the hysterical screams of panicked shoppers ".

Furthermore, because of the large number of bombs in the confined area of Belfast city centre, people evacuated from the site of one bomb were mistakenly moved into the vicinity of other bombs.

The MP Sir James Kilfedder, one such opponent of gay equality, who had received one of the letters, died two months later of a sudden heart attack on the day one of the Belfast newspapers planned to out him.

The airport is owned by the Sanford Airport Authority and managed by TBI plc, one of the world's leading airport operators, which owns London Luton Airport, Cardiff Airport, and Belfast International Airport in the United Kingdom, as well as Stockholm-Skavsta Airport in Sweden, and operates airports in South America.

Moore grew up on Castleview Road opposite Stormont's Parliament Buildings, off the Upper Newtownards Road in east Belfast, as one of five children of a promoter named Bobby and housewife, Winnie, but he left the city as a teenager, because all was not well in their household.

In January 2011, Bmibaby moved to George Best Belfast City Airport in order to keep its operation under one roof with sister company BMI.