killed on the road itself was Private Nicholas Peacock, killed by a booby trap bomb left outside the Rock Bar, opposite the top of the Donegall Road on 1 February 1989. In 1991, IRA hit squads based in the Upper Falls and Beechmount were involved in attacks against loyalist paramilitaries in the nearby Village area. In September 1991, they shot dead 19-year-old UVF member John Hanna at his home on the Donegall Road, and in November the same year, they shot dead William Kingsberry and his stepson, Samuel Mehaffey, members of the UDA and RHC respectively, in their home on Lecale Street. Literary and musical references There are many literary references to life on the Falls Road. These include: Gerry Adams (1982). Falls Memories. Dingle:Brandon. Ciaran Carson (1997). Star Factory. London: Granta Books. Liam Carson (2010). Call Mother a Lonely Field. Bridgend: Seren. Eimer O'Callaghan (2014). Belfast Days. A 1972 Teenage Diary. Sallins: Merrion Press. Patricia Craig (2007). Asking for Trouble. Belfast: Blackstaff. The American singer Nanci Griffith sings in her song "It’s a hard life wherever you go" which she wrote after visiting Belfast: I am a backseat driver from America They drive to the left on Falls Road The man at the wheel's name is Seamus We pass a child on the corner he knows And Seamus says, "Now, what chance has that kid got?" And I say from the back, "I don't know." He says, "There's barbed wire at all of these exits And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go." Gary Kemp, British songwriter and singer for British soft rock group Spandau Ballet attributes his writing of the band's 1986 hit "Through the barricades" to emotion he experienced while on Falls Road. See also Gaeltacht Quarter, Belfast Lower Falls (District Electoral Area) Upper Falls (District Electoral Area) Raidió Fáilte References External links Visit West Belfast Falls Road in Rushlight Magazine Streets in Belfast Roads in Northern Ireland