Belfast

From Turtledove

Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland. It is the largest urban area in Northern Ireland and the province of Ulster.

[edit] Belfast in Worldwar

David Goldfarb was stationed in Belfast when the Race's Colonization Fleet arrived in 1962. By this time, anti-Semitism had crept into British society, leaving the Jewish Goldfarb twice an outsider.

[edit] Belfast in Southern Victory

Belfast is a city in the Ulster province of the Republic of Ireland. In 1924, much of the city was seized by anti-Irish rebels, mainly from the Protestant Community which always opposed the city's inclusion in the Irish Republic, supported (illegally) by the British military.

At the request of the Irish government, the U.S. Navy and German High Seas Fleet bombed and shelled rebel strongholds in the city from the Irish Sea.

In 1941, the city was among the first to be occupied by the British, who (unlike in other parts of Ireland) could rely on the strong support of a large part of the population. Protestant militias aided the British Army in attempting to keep the lid on their Catholic neighbours, and used the opportunity to settle scores for the events of 1924. Following the British defeat in 1944, the situation was reveresed with the troops of the restored Irish Republic patrolling the Protestant neighborhoods and local Catholics settling scores of their own. The Second Great War thus resulted in greatly widening the gaps between the two mutually-hostile communities of Belfast.