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	Shankill Road, Belfast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Shankill Road (in Irish, Seán Chill), is the arterial road leading through a predominantly Protestant working-class area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, known as the Shankill.
		A settlement around the point at which the Shankill Road becomes the Woodvale Road, at the junction with Cambrai Street, was known as Shankill from the Irish Seán Cill meaning 'old church'.
		The Shankill is separated from the neighbouring Catholic, nationalist, Falls Road area by peace lines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shankill_Road (673 words)

	History of the Shankill Road
		The first Shankill residents lived at the bottom of what is now known as Glencairn; a small settlement of ancient people inhabiting a ring fort, where the Ballygomartin and Forth rivers meet.
		For centuries the Shankill graveyard was the main graveyard for the Belfast district.
		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.
	loyalistcommissionforideologicaleducation.00freehost.com /historyofshankill.htm (1224 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Shankill leaders appeal for calm
		Soldiers were brought in to try prevent more bloodshed on the Shankill Road, where the feud is centred, for the first time in two years, and loyalist politicians and Protestant church leaders have been appealing to the paramilitaries to talk.
		Shankill Pastor Jack McKee of the Newlife Fellowship Church said there was an air of "uneasy calm" in the area.
		May Blood, made a Baroness in recognition of her many years of community work on the Shankill Road, said the community was not surprised that the feud had flared up, but that its violent escalation had shocked everyone.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/898918.stm (872 words)

	RTE News - Protestors block Lower Shankill Road
		Close to 100 women and children have blocked the lower part of the Shankill Road this evening claiming the community is living in fear under the UDA.
		The women claim they are living in fear and many of their sons have been exiled by the new leadership of the UDA installed by the paramilitary group following the enforced departure of the faction formerly led by Johnny Adair.
		The women called on the leadership of the UDA in the Lower Shankill to be stood down and for the overall leadership to allow their families return.
	www.rte.ie /news/2003/0606/shankill.html (144 words)

	Shankill Massacre of Protestants by the IRA/Sinn Fein
		Shankill Massacre of Protestants by the IRA/Sinn Fein
		There was one lady lying in the road with head injuries and half her arm was blown off.
		The husband of a woman who died in the IRA's Shankill Road bomb, yesterday (Monday) spoke of the hurt caused by a tribute to republicans killed during the group's terror campaign.
	www.iraatrocities.fsnet.co.uk /shankill.htm (2813 words)

	CCRU: Templegrove Action Research Limited - Fifth Public Discussion - The Shankill and the Falls: The Minority ...
		The settlement of the present-day Shankill is historically linked to two movements of people into the area, one movement of people from Antrim who settled in the Shankill area and the other movement from West Ulster who settled in the Falls area.
		Until 1833 when the Antrim road was built the Shankill Road was known as the road to Antrim.
		The roots of it have been in lower Shankill for 3 years and the roots are having a destructive effect on the community.
	www.ccruni.gov.uk /research/temple/discus5.htm (4687 words)

	RTE News - Shankill Road community worker named as working peer
		May Blood, a Shankill Road community worker, is to become a new working peer to the House of Lords.
		For the past ten years, she has been a community worker in the Shankill Road area and was a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition three years ago.
		She said that she would be sitting as an independent and would use her new position in the House of Lords to raise issues of concern to both communities.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/0619/peers.html (213 words)

	Irish Examiner - News From Ireland - 28, August, 2000
		During these centuries the Shankill was cleared of its forests and turned into farming land on the foothills of the Black Mountain.
		But if loyalty made the Shankill’s name, it was the daily struggle against grinding poverty that built the character of its people, marked by their spirit, resilience, humour and strong sense of community.
		Led by the Greater Shankill Partnership and fuelled by the dynamism of dozens of community groups and projects, the area is developing a long term regeneration strategy.
	ted.examiner.ie /archives/2000/august/28/current/ipage_7.htm (717 words)

	Ulster-Scots & Irish Unionist Resource - History of the Shankill, Belfast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Shankill Road itself was an ancient track, the main link from County Down to Antrim, known then as the Antrim Road, it was not until 1831 that the Shankill Road was officially named.
		In 1855 the Bullaun Stone was uncovered in the Shankill Graveyard, it is believed this large stone dates back to Druid times, when it would have been used in a ceremony for pagan sacrifices.
		The Shankill Parish extended from Greencastle in the North to Malone in the South.
	www.ulster-scots.co.uk /docs/articles/historical/shankill.htm (1133 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The levels of educational attainment in the Shankill are appalling.
		According to David Ervine of the PUP not a single child from the Shankill Road went on to third level education last year.
		Johnny Adair is able to speak on behalf of Protestants in the Shankill partly because he was considered important enough for the secretary of state to visit him in prison.
	irelandsown.net /EamonnMcCann.htm (1357 words)

	Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland Grand Orange Lodge
		Once proudly regarded as 'the heart of the Empire', 'the Road' as it is affectionately known, has been a Protestant, Orange and Unionist heartland since the district became the famous road in the middle of the 19th century.
		Hundreds of Shankill people lost their lives in the Troubles, many of the young men went to prison for offences related to the civil disorder, and a large number of families fled the area in search of a quieter life.
		That doesn't mean the children of the Shankill are born with less potential for skills and education than their counterparts anywhere else.
	www.grandorange.org.uk /press/Orange-Standard/2003-Standard/0304-April2003/article5.html (929 words)

	Shankill Butchers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Shankill Butchers" were a group of Ulster Volunteer Force members in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who abducted Roman Catholics usually walking home from a night out, tortured and/or savagely beat them, and killed them, usually by cutting their throats.
		The leader of the Shankill Butchers was Lenny Murphy.
		In his book "The Shankill Butchers", Martin Dillon said that his own investigations suggest the gang were responsible for a total of 30 murders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shankill_Butchers (1597 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Loyalist offices damaged in blast
		A loyalist prisoners welfare office on the Shankill Road in west Belfast has been extensively damaged in a bomb blast.
		Later on Monday the RUC put on display material found in the offices which were damaged on the Shankill Road in Belfast.
		Three men have died as a result of the feud, which first flared up at a UDA-linked festival on the Shankill Road on 19 August, when shots were fired into the Rex bar injuring several people.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/929073.stm (645 words)

	SCG \| International Business Risk Consultancy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An earlier meeting in the Shankill resulted in the ambush killing of south east Antrim UDA leader John Gregg (photo at lower left) as he sat in a taxi- he was an opponent of Adair in the UDA.
		A group of UDA oppositionists favoring Gregg and seeking revenge for his killing entered the Shankill area and the fight was on.
		Shankill Road saw brutal hand-to-hand fighting for most of the night between UDA factions.
	www.scgonline.net /DI/WIB/No16/IRANo16.htm (836 words)

	KILCLUNEY VOLUNTEERS FLUTE BAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		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.
		The parade finished out side the Berlin arms bar just of the Shankill Road where the host band handed out Trophies to all the winning Bands there was a good crowd gathered and Sons of Ulster thanked all those who turned up to support them.
	www.kvfb.co.uk /REPORTS2005/SOU/SOU.htm (655 words)

	Shankill Road \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Belfast \| Frommers.com
		A few blocks down the road, and off to the right, you'll see a cluster of enormous murals, one of celebrating Oliver Cromwell, who massacred Irish Catholics in a struggle to conquer the island.
		Shankill is indefinably grimmer than the Falls Road -- it's more down at the heel, there are more boarded-up shops, but the people are just as friendly and you are just as welcome here.
		Shankill murals seem to be darker than those on the Falls, where many murals are about solidarity with the downtrodden; here they're all about the corruption of Catholics, and a display of painted weaponry.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/belfast/A34804.html (324 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.
		Part of the Antrim Road and Cave Hill Road were closed for a time as Occupation Forces moved into the area in force.
		This attack on the Antrim Road barracks is the first militant Republican action of its nature in a number of years in north Belfast.
	homepage.eircom.net /~seanabc/2003/mar03/10.html (4207 words)

	Sectarian Attacks
		Thousands of RUC and British Army personnel were deployed on the Shankill Road to keep UDA and UVF supporters apart during a march to commemorate UVF killer Brian Robinson.
		Nineteen families from the Lower Shankill asked the to be moved, bringing the total of families to have asked the Housing Executive to be re-housed as a result of the feud to 158.
		UFF/UDA commanders outside of the lower Shankill area are understood to have instructed their units not to become embroiled in the feud.
	www.serve.com /pfc/sattacks/loyalfeud2att.html (1407 words)

	riccardoorizio.com
		Ma Shankill Road e Falls Road, le due strade che simboleggiano il conflitto nordirlandese, sono molto più lontane l'una dall'altra dei 50 metri che servono per attraversare questa terra di nessuno.
		All'inizio di Shankill i marciapiedi sono stati dipinti in rosso, blu e bianco, i colori della Union Jack che sventola su tutto il Regno Unito.
		A Shankill le formazioni paramilitari come la Uff o la Udf dipingono murales giganteschi, dove si mischiano il fucile, il vecchio simbolo unionista del palmo della ma no (più esplicito di un «no»), fumetti di eroici guerriglieri con il passamontagna che gridano slogan come «Un'isola, due nazioni», o «Da 2000 anni resistiamo all'aggressione irlandese».
	www.riccardoorizio.com /talkofthedevil/reportage_15.html (737 words)

	Irish Echo Online - News
		She later said she was "deeply sorry" for the offense her "clumsy" remarks had caused and added that some Catholic parents were just as guilty, but many unionists were not mollified.
		Shankill community worker Baroness May Blood said the president made the right decision in canceling the visit.
		In an RTE interview on Jan. 28, on the eve of her attendance at the 60th anniversary commemorations to mark the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, President McAleese, referring to the Nazis, said, "They gave to their children an irrational hatred of Jews.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=16046 (560 words)

	Interview : When the Falls and the Shankill fought together
		He wasn't in the RWG, but was an independent from the Shankill Road.
		The worst riot occurred on the Falls Road where two protesters were shot dead.
		From the Donegal Road were John, Mary and Nora Griffin.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/ws94/outdoor43.html (912 words)

	Whitewashing Ulster - Kommersant Moscow
		Before doing that, everyone should see Shankill Road in Belfast, its main road, which leads off up a mountain and is still the center of loyalist life.
		Shankill Rd. is lined with two-story houses built in the 1930s.
		While going up Shankill Rd., open the door of one of the Mountainveiw pub, one of the dirtiest on the strip.
	www.kommersant.com /p710796/Whitewashing_Ulster (516 words)

	The Shankill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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)

	The Shankill Citadel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The foundation stone for the West Belfast Orange Hall, Shankill Road was laid by the County Grand Master of Belfast of that era, Rt.
		Over the years the Shankill Citadel, as it has become known, has taken on progressive schemes of renovation, beginning in 1932 with the decoration of the upstairs ballroom.
		Throughout the 1960’s the hall was also to get involved in the erection of an Orange Arch on the main Shankill Road, which coincided with the Golden Jubilee of the Signing of the Ulster League and Covenant.
	www.greengairsthistle.com /shankillcitadel.htm (572 words)

	CAIN: Photograph - Belfast, Shankill Road, Shankill (1)
		A view of the Shankill Road in west Belfast.
		The Shankill Roas area is mainly working-class and exclusively Protestant.
		It is divided from the Catholic Falls Road area by a 'peace line'.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /images/photos/belfast/shankill/shankill1.htm (95 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.
		Along the Crumlin Road, in particular, are a number of evocative sites symbolizing the worst years of the Troubles.
		From the Westway you'll pass between the courthouse and the notorious Crumlin Road jail, the two connected by an underground tunnel; the jail is no longer in use, and is being developed as a new arts centre.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/ireland/shankill (296 words)

	On the brink of peace - Minnesota Daily
		On Garvaghy Road, after the worst of the crisis had passed, a mural reflects the vestiges of a community's latent anger.
		Down the road in the Catholic area of the Garvaghy road, an older Catholic man expressed his disgust with the whole situation.
		Perennial potholes on the road to peace such as the Rev. Ian Paisley, the fire-breathing leader of the Democratic Ulster Party and the violent campaigns of the IRA are being swept aside by a new generation of Irish.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/1999/04/19/10066 (2314 words)

	Belfast, the Northern Ireland
		In Shankill Road, the red hand, stemming from an old legend and resumed by the loyal supporters
		Shankill Road's pavements, in the colours of the Union Jack
		The murals of the catholic districts are especially directed to the protest against the conditions of detention of the republican prisoners and against the methods of intervention of the police.
	nezumi.dumousseau.free.fr /belfast2a.htm (452 words)

	::: u.tv ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Prayers were said for an end to the loyalist feud during a special prayer service on the Shankill Road today.
		The Shankill Methodist Church service was organised by Rev David Mullan in conjunction with all the churches in the area.
		He said people in the Shankill felt a sense of despair and hopelessness because of the continuing violence.
	u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=1387&pt= (257 words)

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