[2] The area was also known as Whitesidetown after the family that owned the land, but they were dispossessed for the support they gave to the Society of United Irishmen, resulting in a change of name.

St Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School and the All Saints College are located on the upper Glen Road.

In 1990, an Irish Cup game between Donegal Celtic and Linfield F.C., a club with a mainly Protestant following, was moved away from the area on the orders of police due to fears that violence would break out.

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A large British army fort – known as Silver City – was built in the central Broom Hill part of Andersonstown.

[19] On 26 June 1980, Miriam Daly, a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast and an Irish Republican Socialist Party activist, was found tied up and shot dead at her home in the area.

[20] Kieran Doherty, a Teachta Dála who was one of the ten republican prisoners to die during the 1981 Irish hunger strike, was a native of Andersonstown.

[23][24] The interface, which is close to the fortified Woodbourne Police Service of Northern Ireland barracks, has seen numerous clashes between youths from the areas.

This attracted a crowd of UDA members and supporters who attacked the houses and before long the British Army arrived on the scene.

A stand-off followed for several days until the IRA decided to accompany another removal lorry with another Catholic family into the street but at the last moment the army, fearing a riot, rammed the vehicle with an armoured car.

The republican supporters erupted in an angry display, resulting in the soldiers firing rubber bullets, CS gas and water cannons.

The Provisionals accused the army and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw of going back on earlier negotiations and favouring the loyalists.