BELFAST STAG PARTY INFORMATION

The name Belfast originates from the Irish Béal Feirste, or the mouth of the Farset, the river on which the city was built. The river Farset has been superseded by the River Lagan as the most important river; the Farset now languishes in obscurity.

Ireland's first settlers landed near modern-day Belfast around 9000 years ago, just as the melting ice caps separated the island from the British mainland. The Iron Age Celts controlled Ireland for 1000 years and left their lasting legacies of swirling designs and the Irish language. The colonisation of Ulster, until then Ireland's most Gaelic and Catholic province, by the English in the 17th century caused much tension with the existing population who rebelled in 1641 leading to the death of many Protestants. This event still haunts Ireland's Protestant population today, whilst for Ireland's Catholic population Cromwell is an equally lasting symbol of dread.

Belfast pub trivia

famous for: the Giant's Causeway, the Crown Liquor Saloon
famous sons: CS Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia), Van Morrison, Kenneth Branagh
interesting fact: the Titanic, the so-called unsinkable palace, was built in 1911 in Belfast at the Harland & Wolff Shipbuilders.

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