• Photos Anciennes: Belfast

    Par Frawsy dans Photos anciennes le 15 Novembre 2013 à 14:43

     

    Belfast

     

     

    Belfast (Béal Feirste en irlandais) est la principale ville d'Irlande du Nord et de la province irlandaise d'Ulster, avec une population de 268 300 habitants en 2008 (environ 750 000 avec les banlieues). C'est le siège du gouvernement nord-irlandais, et le chef-lieu du comté d'Antrim. Depuis 1888, Belfast possède officiellement le statut de cité.

     

     

    Le temps des « Troubles »

     

    Belfast est devenue le centre du protestantisme irlandais, et la capitale d'Irlande du Nord en 1922. Pendant une grande partie de son histoire, la ville a été tiraillée par les divisions politiques et religieuses entre républicains catholiques et unionistes protestants.

     

    Ces divisions ont abouti à la guerre civile (Troubles) qui s'est produite entre les années 1960 et les années 1990. La ville fut ainsi divisée de facto en secteurs catholiques républicains, fiefs de l'IRA provisoire (essentiellement à l'ouest, ainsi qu'à Ardoyne dans le nord), et protestants unionistes (surtout au nord à Shankill Road ainsi qu'à l'est). Belfast a ainsi vécu durant 30 ans entre attentats meurtriers et émeutes. Les guérillas urbaines étaient quotidiennes dans certains quartiers où les deux communautés s'affrontaient. La ville vivait en outre quadrillée par l'armée britannique. Plus de la moitié des 3 500 morts du conflit l'ont été dans la cité.

     

     

     

    Photos Anciennes: Belfast

    A British soldier on sentry duty outside a sandbagged blockhouse on Orange Day at Belfast. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images). 1920





     



    Members of the Protestant Orange Order march through Shaftesbury Square in Belfast. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). July 1920





     



    Belfast police patrol the streets with an armoured car following rioting between the unemployed and police leaving one man dead and 46 injured. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 12th October 1932





     





     





     



    A Royal Ulster Constabulary armoured car patrolling near York Street in Belfast following riots after an Orange Order parade. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 22nd June 1935





     



    A flautist and lambeg drummer marching with their Orange Lodge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to celebrate the victory of William III over James II in 1690 and to re-affirm their loyalty to the king and empire. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 12th July 1951





     



    A teenage civilian is arrested by British troops during a civil rights demonstrations in Belfast. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1969





     



    Heavy black smoke billows from a building after a bomb attack in the Bogside area of Belfast. Firemen are in attendance. (Photo by Jones/Evening Standard/Getty Images). 13th August 1969





     



    Two young women climbing under a barricade next to an armed soldier on the Falls Road, Belfast. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images). 16th August 1969





     



    5 Catholics are killed, 60 injured and hundreds of homes devastated when armed British soldiers impose a curfew in the Falls Road area of Belfast. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images). 16th August 1969





     





     





     



    British soldiers stop a man trying to carry his baby through a barbed-wire barricade on the Catholic Falls Road area of Belfast. (Photo by James Jackson/Getty Images). 1969





     





     





     





     



    A crowd of demonstrators passing British soldiers in Leeson St. in the Falls Road area of Belfast. (Photo by Malcolm Stroud/Express/Getty Images). July 1970





     





     





     



    Armed British soldiers impose a curfew on the Falls Road in Belfast. (Photo by Malcolm Stroud/Express/Getty Images). July 1970





     





     



    Armed British troops take up defensive positions on the Falls Road. 5 Catholics were killed, 60 injured and many homes devastated when the British Army imposed a curfew in the Falls Road. (Photo by Wesley/Keystone/Getty Images). 4th July 1970





     



    A commandeered bus is driven backwards through a picket of women who want the violence to end during riots on the Falls Road, Belfast. (Photo by Malcolm Stroud/Express/Getty Images). 3rd July 1970





     





     



    Armed British soldiers restrain a young civilian in the streets of Belfast. (Photo by Malcolm Stroud/Getty Images). 3rd July 1970





     



    Children mocking an Army patrol in Belfast. (Photo by Malcolm Stroud/Express/Getty Images). July 1970





     



    Civil rights marchers in Belfast demonstrating against British policy in Northern Ireland. (Photo by Michael Stroud/Express/Getty Images). 10th July 1970





     



    A British soldier searching a Belfast teenager. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1971





     



    An armed British soldier on patrol in Belfast. (Photo by John Minihan/Evening Standard/Getty Images). 24th March 1971





     



    A woman offers a cup of tea to a soldier manning a check point in a Belfast street. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Getty Images). 20th April 1971





     



    British troops searching a civilian in Belfast. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 12th August 1971





     



    A car explodes after troops carried out a controlled explosion of a suspected bomb in Belfast. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 17th November 1971





     



    A young woman injured during a shooting incident in Belfast is carried out of a chemist's shop by ambulance men. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 28th November 1971





     



    Schoolboys giggling while a soldier searches them in a street in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 7th December 1971





     



    Armed British soldiers on patrol in Lisbon Street, Belfast, during the Official IRA's unconditional ceasefire. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images). 1972





     



    Firemen tend to a wounded victim of an Irish Republican Army car bomb explosion in Donegal Street, Belfast. The blast killed 6 people and injured 146. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1972





     



    Rioters turn a burning lorry into a barricade in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, after violence erupted following the death of Irish Republican Army hunger striker and Member of Parliament Bobby Sands in the Maze prison. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 6th May 1981





     





     





     



    A British soldier lets a young boy look through the sights of his rifle in Belfast. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images). 13th May 1981

     

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