The "peace line" between Falls Road and Shankill Road doesn't just start in 1969 but it's modern embodiment 50 years on, remains A 'peace line' has been in place in Belfast since September 1969, ...

Belfast Corporation employee Frank Clegg turned up for work unusually early on the morning of March 24, 1969. A junior clerk in the Corporation's transport department, 17-year-old Frank had left his ...

Kenneth Branagh’s latest semi-autobiographical film, Belfast, is set in Northern Ireland in 1969 and explores the “social and political tumult” in the buildup to the Troubles. The “affectionate ...

On 14 August 1969, the British government deployed troops on the streets of Northern Ireland to restore public order after weeks of violent sectarian rioting Open warfare burst out between the ...