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	Ulster-Scots & Irish Unionist Resource - History of the Shankill, Belfast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For centuries the Shankill graveyard was the main graveyard for the Belfast district.
		The Shankill Parish extended from Greencastle in the North to Malone in the South.
		In the ensuing years, the Shankill population dropped from 76,000 to 26,000.Over a thirty-year period the Greater Shankill and its residents were subjected to numerous bomb explosions and shootings, the most horrific being what is now known as the Shankill Bomb.
	www.ulster-scots.co.uk /docs/articles/historical/shankill.htm (1133 words)

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		BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Beneath a lamppost on Belfast's Shankill Road, a rain-slick slab of stone quotes the Gospel according to Luke:
		The memorial is to nine Shankill Protestants who, on Saturday afternoon one year ago, were blown apart or crushed beneath the rubble of an IRA bomb.
		Separated from Catholic parts of west Belfast by a two-story-high "peace line" of walls, the Shankill is a community of open wounds where few trust IRA motives or Sinn Fein peace appeals.
	www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/sitindarkness.html (656 words)

	SAOIRSE Irish Freedom March 2003
		Throughout the day in the Lower Shankill Road in Johnny Adair's area belonging's belonging to Adair and his supporters were loaded into vans and taken from the area.
		Also on Wednesday night it was reported that the UDA/UFF in west Belfast dumped a number of pipe bombs and informed the RUC of their whereabouts near the Crumlin Road area.
		The claim made in the North Belfast News stated the man as well as being linked to the McColgan murder, is also one of the gunmen who killed Mark Quail, a UVF man in a UDA/UFF feud in 2000.
	homepage.eircom.net /~seanabc/2003/mar03/10.html (4207 words)

	CNN.com - Bomb is latest in Belfast Shankill violence - September 18, 2000
		The Shankill Road has been at the centre of fighting between pro-British loyalist factions.
		The explosion followed a string of incidents in Belfast on Sunday.
		On Sunday night, a pipe bomb and petrol bomb were thrown through the window of an unoccupied house in north Belfast.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/UK/09/18/bomb.shankill.reut (409 words)

	Belfast - Sightseeing - West Belfast N. Ireland - In Your Pocket
		West Belfast evolved as country people moved to the city to work in its 32 mills.
		The best viewing section is on the Shankill side where visitors are encouraged to add their signatures to those of the Dalai Lama and former US President Clinton.
		Shankill Road was named in 1831 after the Gaelic Sean Cill meaning Old Church.
	www.inyourpocket.com /ni/belfast/en/category?cid=58345 (1330 words)

	Shankill, Ireland. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		The Protestant population of West Belfast lives in the area abutting the Falls to the north, between the Shankill Road and the Crumlin Road.
		Despite many obvious signs of redevelopment and renovation – the most apparent being the new leisure centre – the area is in decline, its population shrinking in inverse proportion to the Catholic population the other side of the Peace Line.
		Yet Shankill (Sean Cill, "the old church") does have a rich history, though you'll have to travel almost out of town to learn more about it.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/ireland/shankill (296 words)

	Shankill Road, Belfast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Shankill Road is the arterial road leading through a predominantly Protestant working-class area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, known as the Shankill.
		When downtown Belfast consisted of marshland and thick woods, the area now known as the Shankill was roamed by wolves and wild boar.
		Many of the streets in the Shankill area, such as Leopold Street, Cambrai Street and Brussels Street, were named after places and people connected with Belgium or Flanders, where the flax from which the linen was woven was grown.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Shankill_Road,_Belfast (659 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| McAleese is 'welcome on Shankill'
		The president said she was "personally absolutely devastated" by the furore, that her critics had been "absolutely right" and acknowledged she had been clumsy and had hurt people.
		However, unionists said it would take time for the hurt caused by the remarks to abate and welcomed her decision to cancel the visit to the mainly loyalist Shankill.
		Shankill community worker Baroness May Blood said the president had made the right decision in cancelling the visit.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/4292461.stm (453 words)

	KILCLUNEY VOLUNTEERS FLUTE BAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Last night the Shankill Road rocked to the sound of marching feet as Sons of Ulster Shankill Rd Fb held its first annual band parade and competition.
		There was a good show of local bands on parade with the biggest bands being Shankill Protestant Boys FB walking with 17 drummers and 35 flutes 4 Bass drummers and they sounded every bit as good as they looked as they filled the road.
		Shankill Defenders must be one of the loudest melody flute bands on the road and still being lead by Sammy Orr after all these years.
	www.kvfb.co.uk /REPORTS%202005/SOU/SOU.htm (655 words)

	Belfast Families - 1901 Census
		Belfast Families has access to the 1901 Census for West and South Belfast.
		The streets, popular surnames and analysis are shown on the West Belfast pages.
		There were approximately 58,000 individuals living in 316 streets between the Shankill and Crumlin Roads.
	www.belfastfamilies.co.uk (182 words)

	Guardian \| UVF shot its own man to stop feud
		The loyalist terror group agreed to 'kneecap' one of its 'volunteers' in north Belfast after a bomb attack on the home of a Protestant family in Belfast's Shankill area last week.
		Members of the UDA's notorious C company in the Lower Shankill threatened to restart the feud with the UVF after the bomb was left outside a house in Snugville Street.
		Tensions are still high in the Greater Shankill area as a result of the bitter legacy of last year's feud.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4189253-103588,00.html (377 words)

	Northern Ireland Housing Executive : News Releases : Housing Executive unveils £60m package for Belfast - 29th Sept ...
		North Belfast continues to be a key priority for the Housing Executive as we work to address high demand and improve housing conditions through the North Belfast Strategy.
		East Belfast is coming through major urban renewal, and this year we will evaluate the effect that this investment has had on regeneration and what more needs to be done.
		Already, in some parts of Belfast, we are seeing the benefits of the new Neighbourhood Wardens that have been appointed; because of this we intend to extend this service to other areas of the City.
	www.nihe.gov.uk /news/news.asp?Id=436 (496 words)

	The Shankill Butchers, Belfast's notorious hoodlum terrorists - The Crime Library - The Crime library
		McLaverty could not have known it then, but he was to be the last victim and the only one to survive the murderous rampage of a gang of serial slaughterers who hid behind the veil of politics and sectarian warfare as they indulged their blood lust.
		In the twisted logic of this 300-year-old battlefield, it almost excuses the men, who under the direction of the psychopathic killer Lenny Murphy, tortured and murdered their prey, using finely honed butchers knives for the purpose.
		But it is accurate to say that the victims of Shankill Butchers were casualties of the war.
	www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/terrorists/shankill_butchers (1149 words)

	Shankill/Shankill Project - Home Page
		The aim, at this time, was to bring together people from North and South, regardless of their religious or political persuasions, to engage in social activities.
		From this, a need to work with young people was identified, and in 1998 Shankill Community Association was approached and asked to become sponsors.
		In 1998, ADM/CPA were approached to fund the Project, and this led to the appointment of a full-time Co-Ordinator and part-time Administrator and the establisment of an office in Shankill, Co. Dublin.
	www.shankill-shankill-project.org (237 words)

	The Shankill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Those of us who live there are still finding it hard to come to terms with the Shankill Road as a tourist destination.
		I often see them parked at the end of my street as visitors from around the world listen to their guide’s description of the loyalist paramilitary murals on the gable end wall.
		On the other side is a potted history of the Shankill district, a piece on the local importance of Orangeism and a timetable of festivals and parades.
	www.ulsternation.org.uk /shankill.htm (341 words)

	Bibliography
		In this sense, ‘West Belfast’ is much more than a geographical location or even a parliamentary constituency, it is an emblematic reference to a politics and a culture and a ‘way of life’.
		West Belfast local libraries hold a limited stock on material specific to West Belfast, however, it is always worthwhile to pay a visit to them as they are always willing to help and can order to particular needs.
		Falls Community Council, West Belfast Economic Forum, and the Community Development Unit of the North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust are a vital source for information on West Belfast, as the material they collect is more specific to West Belfast.
	www.wbef.org /bibliography.htm (5190 words)

	Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The group was concentrated around East Antrim, County Armagh and the Shankill district of Belfast.
		One example of this is the McGurk\'s Bar bombing, New Lodge, Belfast on 4 December 1971 which killed fifteen Catholic civilians.
		A subset of the UVF dubbed the Shankill Butchers (a group of UVF men based on the Shankill Road in Belfast) carried out a grisly series of sectarian murders of Catholic civilians.
	www.countryiworld.com /wiki-UVF (1876 words)

	Belfast Shankill (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shankill, a division of Belfast, was a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland.
		Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1918 and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1922 the area was part of the Belfast North constituency.
		This constituency, in republican theory, was incorporated in a four-member Dáil constituency of Belfast North.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belfast_Shankill_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (380 words)

	Ananova - Commemoration hears loyalist feud is drugs war
		The loyalist battle on Belfast's Shankill Road is not about territory but the involvement of some members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters in the drugs trade, a paramilitary commemoration march has heard.
		The people of the Shankill Road could not stomach the destruction, pollution and deprivation being caused by the spread of the drugs trade by members of the UFF's C Company in the lower Shankill.
		The struggle between the UVF and UFF has so far claimed the lives of three Belfast men and an 11-year-old girl was seriously injured in a shooting at her home in Coleraine, Co Londonderry.
	www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_52275.html (321 words)

	Irish American Post
		The south Belfast councillor also rejected claims that the proposed sanctions body in the joint declaration would give the Irish government a say over the running of the Assembly.
		The South Belfast MP expressed no regret over his decision to resign the whip and said he would not be resigning as President.
		The Belfast Agreement will be "in dire straits" if the devolved institutions are not restored by the first anniversary of their suspension on October 14th, Sinn FÈin chief negotiator Mr.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2003/07jun-jul/news/news01.html (11436 words)

	Greater Shankill :: Belfast's Official Tourism Website - Gotobelfast.com
		Were laid as a memorial to those from the Shankill who gave their lives during the First and Second World Wars.
		More recently the old Belfast Street Lamp, with eternal flame was erected in memory of those killed in the Shankill Bomb in 1993.
		This was unearthed in excavations of the Shankill Graveyard.
	www.gotobelfast.com /index.cfm?type=page&level=page&category_key=199&Page_Key=346 (298 words)

	Belfast Murals Shankill
		Belfast Murals Shankill - This mural is a commemoration of the Shankill bomb, where the IRA blew up a fish shop on the Shankill road
		Belfast Murals Shankill - a celebration of release of prisoners from the H-block in 2000
		Belfast Murals Shankill - unionist are loyal to the queen of England
	www.gransha-taxi.co.uk /Belfast_murals_Shankill.htm (241 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Mural giving Shankill a new image
		A move to soften the image of west Belfast's Shankill Road has seen a loyalist paramilitary mural being replaced by something more colourful.
		In the past few years, they have even become a tourist attraction, with visitors to Belfast taking bus tours along the Shankill and Falls Roads.
		Shankill community development worker William Smyth said it was important now to start changing young people's attitudes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/northern_ireland/4335872.stm (254 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ANGRY parents, on Belfast's Shankill Road, last night hit out over a convicted UDA rapist, who helps run a local sports team.
		Loyalist sources told Sunday Life that a number of parents in the loyalist stronghold wanted the man removed from the team, because of his rape conviction.
		Now, other parents in the Shankill have refused to organise further protests, over fears they could be attacked by the UDA.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=468705 (372 words)

	From the Shankill to Crossmaglen
		On the upper Shankill we shared in the Shankill / Falls clergy fellowship and it was possible to have a nun to preach on two occasions!
		Among the visitors to the Centre one Sunday was two busloads of women ex-republican prisoners and their families from Belfast, who for their day out had chosen to go first to Armagh gaol, where they had their photos taken outside the cells they formerly occupied.
		At a personal level it has been possible to make representations to the RUC on behalf of several persons (not of my congregation) who were in trouble with the law.
	creggan.armagh.anglican.org /journey.html (928 words)

	U.K.'s cease-fire is Belfast's war
		The coffin carrying the bullet-riddled body of Ulster Freedom Fighter Jackie Coulter was paraded along Belfast's Shankill Road recently to the sound of British army helicopters whirring overhead and weeping women.
		As the streets of Belfast once again combust in the midst of a feud between warring, pro-British, Protestant, loyalist paramilitary factions, this kind of preparation may be necessary.
		More than 20 homes — all in the tightly policed loyalist stronghold of Shankill — were ransacked or set alight on the pretext of a link, or suspected link, with either the UFF or UVF.
	www.recordonline.com /archive/2000/09/03/suned1.htm (1078 words)

	Belfast: Shankill Road - Traveler Reviews - The Shankill: the People, the History, the Culture. - TripAdvisor (via ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Belfast: Shankill Road - Traveler Reviews - The Shankill: the People, the History, the Culture.
		Belfast: Shankill Road: "The Shankill: the People, the History, the Culture."
		Free copies are available from Ulster Souvenirs, the Greater Shankill Partnership offices and the Belfast Welcome Centre.
	www.tripadvisor.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ShowUserReviews-g186470-d189771-r643242-Shankill_Road-Belfast_Northern_Ireland.html (561 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Man shot dead in Belfast
		Paul Daly, 38, a father of four from south Belfast, was in a car in Stephen Street when two men approached and fired up to 10 shots.
		They are also examining a link with a Nissan car found abandoned in the Shankill Road area of Belfast.
		It is understood the people in the car attempted to burn it but failed and police forensic scientists and detectives have examined it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/1313206.stm (498 words)

	Shankill / Shankill Project - 2000 Activities (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		R.S.L. Football Club went to Belfast to meet with the ladies of the Northern Ireland Supporters Club.
		The Choir and members of the Youth Forum met with and performed for the Dalai Lama on his visit to Belfast for a conference entitled “The Way of Peace”.
		This was all organized by Constable Greg Walker of the R.U.C. Tennant Street, Belfast.
	www.shankill-shankill-project.org.cob-web.org:8888 /2000.htm (257 words)

	Northern Ireland News - McAleese cancels Shankill Road visit
		President McAleese had been due to go to Edenbrooke Primary School during a visit to Belfast on Thursday however a recent joint statement by the DUP, UUP and PUP called on her to cancel her visit.
		North Belfast Assembly member Fred Cobain said he was glad to see that “common sense” has prevailed.
		A spokesperson for the President said she was still planning on coming to Belfast where is expected to meet staff and patients at Belfast City Hospital, deliver the O'Connell Lecture at St Malachy's College and visit the Hannahstown area of west Belfast.
	www.4ni.co.uk /industrynews.asp?ID=37904 (468 words)

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