History of the Belfast street that was home to political strife and a vet who reinvented the wheel Historian Jason Burke charts the history of May Street, which welcomed Dickens, O’Connell and ...

Most of the people we chatted to on the South Belfast streets shared many of the same worries, with the cost of living, rising rent prices, and the conflict in Israel and Palestine top of the agenda.

Many have attributed the success of the community to the Belfast Jewish Institute — locally nicknamed “the club” — which was a short walk from the synagogue situated on a leafy street in ...