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.

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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

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

They also hope to invest in a new modern transport system ( high-speed rail and others ) for Belfast, with a cost of £ 250 million.

Belfast Natural History & Philosophical Society in Association with Ulster Historical Foundation.

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.

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

Suburban railway networks operate in Dublin, Dublin Suburban Rail, and Belfast, Belfast Suburban Rail, with limited local services being offered in, or planned for, Cork, Limerick, and Galway.

Ireland's roads link Dublin with all the major cities ( Belfast, Cork, Limerick, Derry, Galway, and Waterford ).

In Northern Ireland Ulsterbus provides the bus network, with its sister company Metro providing services in Belfast.

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 ).

In Northern Ireland, a major reorganisation of local government in 1973 replaced the six traditional counties and two county boroughs ( Belfast and Derry ) with 26 single-tier districts for local government purposes.

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

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 ).

Another ad exhorted male readers to join the British Army, because " all the birds are gagging for squaddies " ( with the fine print on the reply coupon having a tick box where the interested recruit indicates that spending years ducking for cover in Belfast " should just about see right " when it comes to the ladies ).

** Milltown Cemetery Attack: During the funeral of three Provisional IRA members in Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) member Michael Stone attacked the crowd with grenades and pistols, killing three and wounding over sixty.

The majority of the capital city of Northern Ireland, Belfast, is also in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down.

On both coasts there are several resort towns, including Portrush ( with well-known golf links ), Portballintrae and Ballycastle ; on the east Cushendun, Cushendall and Waterfoot on Red Bay, Carnlough and Glenarm, Larne on the Sea of Moyle, and Whitehead on Belfast Lough.

Belfast International shares its runways with the Royal Air Force base RAF Aldergrove, which otherwise has its own facilities.

These linked Stranraer with Belfast and Birmingham with Le Touquet.

About the same time the Criminal Investigation Department ( CID ) in Belfast was significantly expanded, with a detective head constable being appointed to head the CID force in each of the five Belfast police districts.