 top 8 facts about belfast top 8 facts about belfast barsha jeu 23092021 1015 belfast largest city of the emerald isle is known for its history of conflict and division belfast is referred to as beal feirste in irish beal signifies mouth and feirste signifies sandbank ford thus the mouth of the sea bank ford is a translation this would be in reference to a founding of the capital city belfast where the first community was established on the marshy ford the place where the river lagan and the river farset meet and that is where main street of belfast and victoria street meet today in 1941 during world war 2 the nazis launched bombs on belfast killing around 1000 people on april 15 1941 200 bombers from germany bombed the ill prepared city displacing nearly 100000 inhabitants around the twentieth century belfast used to be bigger compared to dublin and was the largest city in ireland the world s largest freestanding cranes the samson and goliath cranes are the iconic of belfast the samson crane was completed in 1974 and has a height of 106 meters whereas the goliath crane which has the height of 96 meters was finished in 1969 signing of good friday agreement in belfast on april 10 1998 this agreement is also known as belfast agreement with the support of the us government and eu threedecade long violence was ended through this agreement between the irish and british governments belfast is classified as both a city and a town in the seventeenth century belfast was classified as a town and its subsequent expansion resulted in its recognition as a city belfast was where the titanic was constructed the worldfamous rmc titanic was constructed in east belfast by harland and wolf shipyard one of the biggest shipyards in the world it took 2years and 2month for the shipyard to construct the ship before sinking the titanic sailed from southampton england on april 14 1912 belfast was once known as linenopolis because the city was a center for ireland s linen industry it was the world s greatest linen manufacturer during the nineteenth century and had a major role in the industrial revolution belfast largest city of the emerald isle is known for its history of conflict and division belfast is referred to as beal feirste in irish beal signifies mouth and feirste signifies sandbank ford thus the mouth of the sea bank ford is a translation this would be in reference to a founding of the capital city belfast where the first community was established on the marshy ford the place where the river lagan and the river farset meet and that is where main street of belfast and victoria street meet today in 1941 during world war 2 the nazis launched bombs on belfast killing around 1000 people on april 15 1941 200 bombers from germany bombed the ill prepared city displacing nearly 100000 inhabitants around the twentieth century belfast used to be bigger compared to dublin and was the largest city in ireland the world s largest freestanding cranes the samson and goliath cranes are the iconic of belfast the samson crane was completed in 1974 and has a height of 106 meters whereas the goliath crane which has the height of 96 meters was finished in 1969 signing of good friday agreement in belfast on april 10 1998 this agreement is also known as belfast agreement with the support of the us government and eu threedecade long violence was ended through this agreement between the irish and british governments belfast is classified as both a city and a town in the seventeenth century belfast was classified as a town and its subsequent expansion resulted in its recognition as a city belfast was where the titanic was constructed the worldfamous rmc titanic was constructed in east belfast by harland and wolf shipyard one of the biggest shipyards in the world it took 2years and 2month for the shipyard to construct the ship before sinking the titanic sailed from southampton england on april 14 1912 belfast was once known as linenopolis because the city was a center for ireland s linen industry it was the world s greatest linen manufacturer during the nineteenth century and had a major role in the industrial revolution  