According to John J Marshall, this street was called after Lord Randolph Churchill (Belfast Telegraph, 04/01/1941, p. 4), a politician who opposed Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill and who is most noted for his line: “Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right” (1886). “On the application of the owners of property interested, your Committee have named a new street off Duncairn Street, Churchill Street; …” From the report of the Town Improvement Committee published on Thursday 02 September 1886 in the Northern Whig.