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Streets of Belfast: historian Jason Burke examines connections and coincidences associated with Donegall Street

In the days when touring circuses such as Clara ‘Ma’ Copley’s would pitch their marquees at Chapel Fields, the entertainment, it is said, would include a ‘question time’ segment consisting of conundrums for the audience. One such conundrum was posed, as Cathal O’Byrne tells us: “Why is Donegall Street like a spendthrift? Because it begins with a bank and ends with the Poor House.” It’s true that it was, at one time, bookended by Belfast Commercial Bank at the lower end and by the Belfast Charitable Society’s Poor House at the other. Despite being referred to, perhaps unfairly, as “the bleakest street in the bleak north” by Belfast physician and United Irishman Dr William Drennan, Donegall Street was once a commercial hub for the growing town of Belfast.

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Ma Copley: How a woman came to be Belfast's biggest boxing promoter

BBC News
By Peter Crutchley
Boxing promoters are generally thought of as being fast-talking alpha males, but in Belfast in the 1930s one celebrated promoter couldn't have been further removed from this stereotype.
Long before there was Don King, Barney Eastwood and Eddie Hearn, Clara Copley - affectionately known as Ma - was a pioneer in the fight business, giving many young boxers their start and providing them with much needed income during a period of financial hardship.
For her granddaughter, Doreen Devenney, Ma Copley's achievements in a male-dominated field remains a source of great pride.
"People still talk about my grandmother. I grew up living in the caravan beside her and have many happy memories of being with her and watching the boxing.

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