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    92318 Ormeau Road is a road in south Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland. Ormeau Park is adjacent to it. It forms part of the A24. The road, as currently...
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  • (UK Parliament constituency), 1918–1922 Ormeau Road, a major road in Belfast, and the area around it "Ormeau", a song by Beaumont Hannant This disambiguation...
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    multiple walks. The park opens on to the Ormeau Road, the Ormeau Embankment, Park Road, and the Ravenhill Road. Access to Belfast city centre is available...
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    Ormeau House the estate of Major Alexander Jenyns Boyd, a sugar planter of the 1860s. His first wife, Isabella (née Dawson) was born at Ormeau Road,...
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    was a mass shooting at the Sean Graham bookmaker's shop on the Lower Ormeau Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Members of the Ulster Defence Association...
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  • bomb at a British Army foot patrol on the Andersontown Road, Belfast. the IRA bombed the Ormeau Road, Belfast, premises of a building firm they accused of...
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    to the 2001 and 2011 censuses, Ormeau Bridge became the focus of clashes in the 1990s. Residents of the Lower Ormeau Road opposed the Orange Order marching...
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    the Ormeau Road. At Clough it meets the A2. The section of the A24 from Forestside Shopping Centre to Carryduff roundabout was named by European Road Assessment...
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    "fellow Loyalist" (John Thompson) to death, he was found dead on the Ormeau Road, Belfast. Apparent internal dispute. July 1974: In what was described...
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  • killed and dozens injured by an IRA bomb attack on a Protestant bar on Ormeau Road, Belfast. 4 December – McGurk's Bar bombing: There were 15 civilians...
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  • Planted by the Provisional IRA, it exploded in the Red Lion pub on Ormeau Road, killing three people and injuring about 30 others. The IRA members had...
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    Pass, and closed in 1916. Similar institutions were run by Catholics on Ormeau Road and by Presbyterians on Whitehall Parade. In the late 18th century, the...
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  • Crown Bar on Ormeau Road, Belfast. 7 May: The UVF shot dead a married couple (James and Gertrude Devlin) near their home at Congo Road, outside Dungannon...
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    continuing through lower Ormeau, and crossing onto Great Victoria Street via the Bankmore Link, a newly-built bus-only road. The Ormeau Road has four lanes for...
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    The Ormeau Bridge is a road bridge in Belfast, roughly 80m long, carrying the A24 Ormeau Road across the River Lagan from Stranmillis Embankment to Ormeau...
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    Belfast-Coleraine via Antrim and Ballymena M3: Belfast-Bangor M4: Belfast (Ormeau Road)-Carryduff M5: M2 at Greencastle-Carrickfergus M6: M5 at Whiteabbey-Larne...
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  • A List of B roads in Northern Ireland. Routes are listed proceeding North to South or East to West as appropriate. S.A.B.R.E.: B533 (Northern Ireland)...
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    Derek Patterson was shot dead by the IPLO on Fitzroy Avenue, off the Ormeau Road, Belfast. Both the IRA and later the INLA tried to claim responsibility...
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  • are generally considered to be the area between University Street, the Ormeau Road, the River Lagan, Botanic Gardens and Queen's. Originally home to many...
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  • killed in bomb attacks on a drapery shop and Red Lion Bar, either side of Ormeau Road Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base, Belfast. They were drinking in...
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  • Catholic taxi driver Larry Brennan outside his company offices in the Lower Ormeau Road. Martin O'Hagan, the Sunday World journalist whom Wright especially disliked...
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  • Fitzroy Avenue, a narrow residential street in Belfast between the Ormeau Road and Rugby Road. Comedian Frankie Boyle suggested it was a song about Van Morrison's...
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    Catholic opponents. Given the proximity of the two communities on the Ormeau Road, Bratty had grown up alongside Catholics and as such had for a number...
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    Tircane Road. 19 January: the LVF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Catholic taxi driver Larry Brennan (52) as he sat in his car on Ormeau Road, Belfast...
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    was born at Ormeau Road, Belfast, Ulster, Ireland. The word ormeau is French, meaning young elm. In the 2011 census,In the 2016 census, Ormeau Hills had...
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  • Woodstock Road in east Belfast. It failed to explode. 25 September: the INLA lobbed a grenade at Ballynafeigh RUC Station on the Ormeau Road in south Belfast...
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  • 1999 to form Belfast Harlequins. The club left its historic home on the Ormeau Road (one of the earliest international rugby venues in Ireland) after a series...
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    Stranmillis Road, University Road and Malone Road are the main thoroughfares through the area. The Quarter encompasses a region bounded by the Ormeau Road, the...
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    the Ormeau Road in 1994. A native of Belfast, Elder grew up in the Annadale Flats, an Ulster loyalist area in South Belfast close to the Ormeau Road. Although...
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  • Union Street, Ballymoney and at his family's home in Fernwood Street, Ormeau Road, Belfast. James Alexander Young was born on 23 May 1918 at 33 Union Street...
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