Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.

No Mean City: Belfast 1880 – 1914.

* Belfast City Council

They also operate two intercity express non stop services service between Dublin Airport, Dublin City Centre, and Cork and also a non stop route between Belfast City Centre, Dublin Airport and Dublin City.

There are also several smaller regional airports: George Best Belfast City Airport, City of Derry Airport, Galway Airport, Kerry Airport ( Farranfore ), Sligo Airport ( Strandhill ), Waterford Airport and Donegal Airport ( Carrickfinn ).

Also not shown are the former county boroughs of Londonderry ( now Derry City ) and Belfast which in Northern Ireland had the same legal status as the six counties until the reorganisation of local government in 1973.

* 1995 – Bill Clinton, then President of the United States, visited Northern Ireland, and spoke in favour of the " Northern Ireland peace process " to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall.

The nearest main international airport to the county is Belfast International Airport ( popularly known as Aldergrove Airport ), which is located to the east at Aldergrove, near Antrim Town, in County Antrim, around fifty-seven miles from Derry City and around seventy-five miles from Letterkenny.

The region is also served by George Best Belfast City Airport, a mile east of Belfast city centre on the County Down side of the city, which was renamed in 2006 in honour of footballer George Best.

* Belfast City Council

Belfast based its claim on its similarity to two English boroughs that had received the honour — the seaport of Liverpool and the textile centre of Manchester — and the fact that it had ( at the time ) a larger population than the City of Dublin.

The Lord Mayors and Provosts of Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, City of London and York have the further right to be styled " The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor " ( or Provost ), although they are not members of the Privy Council as this style usually indicates.

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 ).

A rally of protesters, estimated between 100, 000 and 200, 000 people, met in front of Belfast City Hall after a campaign dubbed after its slogan " Ulster Says No " to protest the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which gave the Republic of Ireland a consultive role in the affairs of Northern Ireland.

This was followed in August 1983 by the so-called " Gluesniffers March ", when 200 skinheads descended on Belfast City Hall determined to riot with Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament members who were themselves holding a rally, with the march taking its name from the prevalence of solvent abuse among the skinheads.

Belfast was the birthplace of Alexander Macomb, the prosperous New York City merchant of Loyalist sympathies.

Belfast City Airport in Northern Ireland is distant.

At its inauguration, in Belfast City Hall, King George V made a famous appeal for Anglo-Irish and north – south reconciliation.

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.

Carrickfergus is the administrative centre for Carrickfergus Borough Council and forms part of the Belfast Metropolitan Area.

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.

It is currently represented on the Belfast City Council.

A mainly urban borough to the south of Belfast City, it is governed by Castlereagh Borough Council ( Ulster-Scots: Stye Braes o Ulidia Burgh Cooncil ).

Works are in many major collections, including the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin ; Bank of Ireland ; Allied Irish Banks ; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin ; Ulster Museum, Belfast ; Waterford Museum ; Office of Public Works, Dublin ; First National Bank of Chicago ; First National City Bank of New York ; An Chomhairle Ealaíon / The Irish Arts Council ; KLM Airlines Headquarters, New York ; Irish Management Institute, Dublin ; Jefferson Smurfit Group Ltd .; Norman B. Arnoff, New York ; University College, Dublin, and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia ; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois ; Arts Council, England ; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England ; The British Museum, London, England ; City Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, England ; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio ; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine ; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; Imperial War Museum, London, England ; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin ; Iziko Museum of Cape Town, South Africa ; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York ; The Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman ; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England ; MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany ; Museum Neuhaus — Sammlung Liaunig, Austria ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois ; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York ; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C .; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York ; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C .; Portland Museum of Art, Maine ; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Gallery, Edinburgh ; Southampton City Art Gallery, England ; Tate Gallery, London, England ; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland ; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor ; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England ; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond ; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

" It shall be sufficient for Royal Proclamations to be published in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes ; but if the Lord President of the Council, thinking it expedient, directs that copies of such proclamations shall in addition be sent to such High Sheriffs, Sheriffs, Lord Mayors and Mayors in England and Wales and to such Sheriffs Principal in Scotland as he thinks fit, the contents of such proclamations shall thereupon be made known in the manner accustomed ".

In 2007, a Northern Ireland sex shop was denied a license by the Belfast City Council.

During this period the party stood for elections in Northern Ireland, after a split in the Northern Ireland Labour Party when Paddy Devlin helped re-establish the party in Belfast, the party did win seats in the Westminster Parliament ( Jack Beattie MP for West Belfast 1951 ) and Stormont Parliament in the Belfast area as well as in district council elections ( Falls, Belfast City Council by election 1956, Gerry Fitt 1958 Council Elections ).

In 1958, he was elected to Belfast City Council as a member of the Irish Labour Party.

Category: Members of Belfast City Council

Part of the Craigavon Borough Council area, Lurgan is about 18 miles ( 29 km ) south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Dublin – Belfast railway line.

Belfast City Council also has a scheme.

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.

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