FALLS ROAD, THE


Meaning of FALLS ROAD, THE in English

ˌFalls ˈRoad, the BrE AmE

a street in the Roman Catholic part of Belfast in Northern Ireland, known for the fighting and violence that has taken place there, especially between the late 1960s and the beginning of the PEACE PROCESS (=attempts to stop violence between Roman Catholics and Protestants) in the early 1990s

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.