Historian Jason Burke charts the development of Divis Street, once the centre of the city’s baking industry and where the revolution of Ireland was first plotted Murals along Divis Street Travelling out of Belfast city centre and across Belfast’s urban motorway, Divis Street provides a connecting thoroughfare to the Falls Road; it is the gateway to west Belfast. According to the Northern Ireland Place Name Project, it is likely that the name ‘Divis’ originates from the Irish Dubhais meaning ‘Black Mountain’, and that Divis and Black Mountain were once thought of as being one mountain, named from its highest peak..
