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The Troubles in Belfast: 1958–2000
Belfast · 1958–2000 · exact time + place
Explore the complex and turbulent history of Belfast — from the civil rights movements of the late 1950s through the ethno-nationalist conflict known as The Troubles, into the early peace after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Political division, paramilitary clashes, and a city's struggle for reconciliation. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Belfast and 1958–2000 already set.
Open Troubles-Era Belfast on the map10 famous Troubles-era Belfast stories
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Browse 8 books and 20 movies set in Belfast.
In the Name of the Father
A small time thief from Belfast Gerry Conlon is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their…
Belfast
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence whose life is filled with familial love childhood hijinks and a blossoming romance. Yet with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil his family faces a…
Hunger
The story of Bobby Sands the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
'71
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
The Boxer
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later Danny is released from…
Good Vibrations
The story of music legend Terri Hooley a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung representing bands such as The Undertones Rudi and The Outcasts.
Shadow Dancer
Set in 1990s Belfast a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Fifty Dead Men Walking
It's 1989 and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA. Guided by Special Forces officer 'Fergus' McGartland gains…
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe writes an intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged…
Mickybo and Me
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
The 10 stories above are just a sample of the 28 in the catalogue for this entry. For the live 1958–2000 catalogue, use the button above — or browse all Belfast stories. On the live map you can also filter by the exact time the stories take place — any year, decade or century, from BCE to the future.