Divis Tower

[1] The site on which the Tower stands was previously the location of the Sir Charles Lanyon-designed Falls Road Methodist Church, which opened in 1854 and closed in 1966.

Chairman of the enquiry into the riots, Mr Justice Scarman, found the use of the Browning machine gun "wholly unjustifiable".

[7] On 17 April 1972 the British Army, specifically the Parachute Regiment, shot dead an 86 year old civilian Patrick Donaghy through the window in his home in Divis flats, killing him instantly.

[8] On 25 February 1975, Official IRA operations officer Sean Fox was shot dead by the INLA on Cullingtree Row in the within the flats complex as part of a feud.

[9][10] On 12 May 1981, a British Army sniper killed INLA member Emmanuel McClarnon from the top of Divis Tower, on the night that Francis Hughes died on hunger strike.

[15][16] On 24 July 1981, a 36-year old Catholic civilian, Peter Doherty, was shot in the head with a rubber bullet by a Royal Marines Commando.

However, when a father and daughter find the protagonist lying unconscious in the street, injured by bomb shrapnel, they carry him to their home in the building and tend to his wounds.

The characters of Da, Cal, Ma, and for a while Dympna and Emer, all nationalists, lived in "Flat 47A, Divis Tower".