Editing Belfast (section)

=== East Belfast ===
The first district on the right bank of the Lagan (the [[County Down]] side) to be incorporated in Belfast was [[Ballymacarrett]] in 1853.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Orr |first=Philip |title=Down by Avalon, Reflections on East Belfast |publisher=East Side Partnership |year=2019 |isbn=9781527238718 |publication-date=2019 |pages=7}}</ref> [[Harland & Wolff]], whose gantry cranes, [[Samson and Goliath (cranes)|Samson & Goliath]], tower over the area, was long the mainstay of employment — although less securely so for the [[townland]]'s Catholics (In 1970, when the yard still had a workforce of 10,000, only 400 Catholics were employed).<ref name=":18" />{{rp|280}} Tolerated in periods of expansion as [[Navvy|navvies]] and casual labourers,<ref name=":13" />{{rp|87–88}} they concentrated in a small enclave, the [[Short Strand]], which has continued into this century to feature as a sectarian flashpoint.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bowcott |first=Owen |date=22 June 2011 |title=Belfast riots: a setback for area barely reshaped by peace process |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/22/belfast-riots-setback-peace-process |access-date=9 February 2024 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Short Strand, Catholic enclave SURVIVING over a century in the midst of Protestant East Belfast. |date=9 November 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMKOZSZc4l8 |access-date=9 February 2024 |archive-date=6 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241206152416/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMKOZSZc4l8 |url-status=live }}</ref> Home to around 2,500 people, it is the only distinctly nationalist area in the east of the river.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research |first=Sheffield Hallam University |date=2014 |title=Project overview {{!}} Recession, resilience and rebalancing {{!}} Inner East Belfast |url=https://research.shu.ac.uk/cresr/recession-resilience-rebalancing/east-belfast.htm |access-date=26 February 2024 |website=research.shu.ac.uk |archive-date=26 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226220711/https://research.shu.ac.uk/cresr/recession-resilience-rebalancing/east-belfast.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

East Belfast developed from the [[Queen's Bridge, Belfast|Queens Bridge]] (1843), through Ballymacarrett, east along the [[Newtownards Road]] and north (along the east shore of the Lough) up the [[Holywood, County Down|Holywood]] Road; and from the [[Albert Bridge, Belfast|Albert Bridge]] (1890) south east out the [[Cregagh]] and Castlereagh roads. The further out, the more substantial, and less religiously segregated, the housing until again encountering the city's outer ring of public housing estates: loyalist Knocknagoney, [[Lisnasharragh (District Electoral Area)|Lisnasharragh]], and [[Tullycarnet]].

This century, efforts have been made to add to East Belfast's two obvious visitor attractions: Samson & Goliath (the "banana yellow" Harland & Wolff cranes date only from the early 1970s)<ref name=":13" />{{rp|79}} and the [[Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland)|Parliament Buildings at Stormont]]. What is marketed now as EastSide, features, at the intersection of the Connswater and Comber Greenways and next to the EastSide Visitor Centre, [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] Square (2017), named and themed in honour of the local author of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]].''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visit EastSide {{!}} Information Services |url=https://visitbelfast.com/partners/visit-east-belfast/ |access-date=9 February 2024 |website=Visit Belfast |archive-date=5 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105064051/https://visitbelfast.com/partners/visit-east-belfast/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Next to the former the Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices (now an hotel), stands the "cultural nucleus to Titanic Quarter", [[Titanic Belfast|''Titanic'' Belfast]] (2012) whose interactive galleries tell the liner's ill-fated story.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Titanic Belfast – Explore – Titanic Belfast |url=https://www.titanicbelfast.com/explore/about-titanic-belfast/ |access-date=9 February 2024 |website=titanicbelfast.com |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221021625/https://www.titanicbelfast.com/explore/about-titanic-belfast/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2015, the [[Orange Order]] opened the Museum of Orange Heritage on the Cregagh Road with the aim of educating the wider public about "the origins, traditions and continued relevance" of the parading institution.<ref name=":24" />