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• Lead: Expand lead to say something about modern Belfast
• History: Add summary about Belfast during the troubles
• Areas and Districts: ?Add parks section
• Points of Interest/Attractions - restructure and combine into culture/areas and districts as per [GA Failed]
• Culture: Add subsections Music/Literature/Performance art/Visual art/?Heritage
  • Music - Mention notable people, eg: Van Morrison, Brian Kennedy, Stiff Little Fingers, David Holmes, Ulster Orchestra, Sir James Galway, ?Waterfront, ?Odyssey, ?Ulster Hall
  • Literature - CS Lewis, ?Ian McDonald, ?Bob Shaw
  • Performance Arts - Lyric, Opera House, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Rea, Liam Neeson (started in Lyric)
  • Visual Arts - John Lavery, William Conor, Paul Henry, Galleries
  • ?Heritage/?Architecture and Buildings - including museums/galleries
• Economy: Add History of Economy
• Local Politics: Add Law section
• Transport: Add Something about docks/ferry
• Add more images
• Consider main tags for geography/economy/politics/etc eg:
  Main article: History of Belfast

Other possible sections

• ?Education: Schools/Universities/Academic selection
• ?Healthcare/hospitals
• ?Tourism
• ?Religion or ?Places of worship

Finally:

• Copyedit for "compelling prose" - not just list of facts
• Eliminate weasel words
• Ensure NPOV (just state the facts).
• Verify article (cite sources when necessary) and remove fact tags

Add to todo: Major historical events that occurred in city Major industries/products Taxes

Linen Hall Library St George's Market beautifully-preserved city pubs, such as The Crown Liquor Saloon in Great Victoria Street, the world's most exquisite Victorian pub. Ulster Museum The City Hall

The National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland (MAGNI) holds collections of national significance at its three main sites: the Ulster Museum, the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and the Ulster-American Folk Park. MAGNI also has responsibility for Armagh County Museum and for the W5 Science Centre at Odyssey, Northern Ireland’s landmark Millennium project.

Through its collections, MAGNI promotes the awareness, appreciation and understanding by the public of art, history and science; the culture and way of life of people; and the migration and settlement of people.^[1]

Belfast Zoo is located in the north of the City, on the slopes of Cavehill. Belfast City Cemetery contains the graves of many notable Belfast residents including Viscount Pirrie and Sir Edward Harland.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rosemary St. 1781-1783 (Roger Mulholland) The oldest surviving place of worship in Belfast. Rev. Samuel Haliday, who became the congregation’s minister in 1719, established the Nonsubscribers when he refused to subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith. John Wesley preached in the church in 1789. Open to the public on Wednesday mornings: make sure you go inside to view the delightful oval interior, box pews and the 1922 First World War Memorial by Co. Down sculptor Rosamund Praeger.

SINCLAIR SEAMEN’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Corporation Sq. 1857-1858 (Charles Lanyon, W.H. Lynn, & John Lanyon) Built for seamen arriving in Belfast. Its minister still visits every ship which docks at the port. Erected in memory of a merchant, John Sinclair. Inside are relics of the age of mariners, including a ship’s wheel, models of ships and lighthouses, chronometers and navigation lights from a Guinness barge. The bell from HMS Hood is rung as services start, and the lectern is shaped like a ship’s prow. Open on Wednesday afternoons from 14.00-16.30.

ST ANNE’S CATHEDRAL Donegall St. 1898-1904 (Thomas Drew) Has impressive stained glass windows, and figures of Courage, Agriculture, and Justice. Look out for the four Archangels around the nave, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael. The tops of the pillars depict Courage, Science, Commerce, Healing, Agriculture, Music, Justice, Masonry, Arts, Women’s Work, and Wisdom. Baptismal area contains an amazing mosaic of The Creation. Made of over 150,000 pieces of glass, it shows the four elements, Fire, Earth, Air and Water.

ST GEORGE’S CHURCH OF IRELAND High St. 1811-1816 (John Bowden) Occupies the site of one of the very first buildings in the town, the Chapel of the Ford, built in 1306 to give travellers a place where they could give thanks for the safe crossing of the River Farset. Beal Feirste, from which the name “Belfast” derives, means “approach to the sandbank/crossing”. St George’s housed the overflow of the congregation of St Anne’s Parish Church nearby, before St Anne’s Cathedral was built on that site.

ST MALACHY’S CHURCH Alfred St. 1840-1844 (Thomas Jackson) The castle-like exterior and studded Tudorstyle door of St Malachy’s opens onto an incredible interior with a ceiling like an insideout wedding cake. In 1868, the largest bell turret in Belfast was added to the church. It was taken away shortly afterwards, due to complaints that its deafening noise interfered with the maturing of the whiskey in Dunville’s distillery nearby!

ST MALACHY’S SCHOOL Sussex Place. 1878 (Timothy Hevey) A Gothic Revivalist building situated beside the St Joseph’s Convent of Mercy. Both were established by the Sisters of Mercy who came from Dublin in 1854.

ST PATRICK’S SCHOOL Donegall St. 1828 (Thomas Duff) This school is the oldest surviving example of Gothic Revival architecture in Belfast. It was the first National School in the city, and until 1981 was run by the Christian Brothers. It was badly damaged by a fire in 1995, but has recently been restored as offices by the Belfast Buildings Preservation Trust.

Founded in 1833 by Bishop Crolly, St. Malachy's College is one of Ireland's oldest Roman Catholic grammar schools.

46% of the population is under 30^[2]

More than 60% of our Secondary school graduates go onto college.^[2] Education facts

The site of Belfast has been occupied since the Bronze Age. The Giant's Ring, a 5000 year old henge, is located near the city, and the remains of Iron Age hill forts can still be seen in the surrounding hills. It became a substantial settlement in the 17th century after being settled by English and Scottish settlers during the Plantation of Ulster. Belfast blossomed as a commercial and industrial centre in the 18th and 19th centuries and became Ireland's pre-eminent industrial city.Industries thrived, including linen, rope-making, tobacco, heavy engineering and shipbuilding, and at the end of the nineteenth century, Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the largest and most industrialised city in Ireland. The Harland and Wolff shipyards became one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, employing up to 35,000 workers.[citation needed] The ill-fated RMS Titanic was built there in 1911.

The site of Belfast has been occupied since the Bronze ages, and the remains of Iron Age hill forts can still be seen.

The original Belfast Castle was at Castle Junction, where several roads meet at the top of the High Street. This was demolished at the same time the River Farset was covered over to create the High Street. There is a new castle on the slopes of the Cavehill above the Antrim and Shore Road, now a popular location for wedding receptions.

In the early 17th century Belfast was settled by English and Scottish settlers, under a plan by Sir Arthur Chichester to colonise and remove Irish Catholics from the land (see Plantation of Ulster). This caused much tension with the existing Irish Catholic population who, in a time of political crisis in England and Scotland and after a bad harvest, rebelled in 1641, attacking the Protestant settlers. The resulting slaughter is still strong in Ulster Protestant folk memory. Belfast was less important than Carrickfergus at the time, and it was there that refugees from the fighting fled and a Scottish army landed to put down the rebellion. Many of the Scots settled in the Belfast area after the war. Belfast was later settled by a small number of French Huguenots fleeing persecution, who established a sizeable linen trade.

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