dance halls in belfast in 1950s

centres." Today, the dance hall is consigned to history, but for many from the 1920s through to the 1970s it was a weekly fixture, representing an escape from the monotony of daily life. The infamous Miami Showband Massacre at Buskhill in County Down was an attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, on 31 July 1975. T-Z, Teddy Palmer and Our lists of venues has been culled from a variety of sources, but is being constantly updated! Dance halls, built or converted for the purpose, were popular, among them the . The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival returns from the 27 April - 7 May with over 100 live events across Belfast's city centre and beyond! New York: Spence Publishing, 2000. RMMRW0XJ - 1960s, historical, view of a wet, damp, quite sparse leicester square, London, England, showing the Empire theatre, originally built in 1884 for variety theatre and then rebuilt in the 1920s for showing feature films. Special list of carnival dancing: Those that are still running have had to reinvent themselves every few years, adopting the model of whatever was popularat least for a time. // -->