The Irish News and Belfast Morning News - Friday 25 December 1908 contain a report about accidents which had happened to people from various streeets and who were treated at the Royal Victoria Hospital. It refers to one woman from Empire Street. "Many streets were named after leading figures of the day — Kitchener, Methuen, Carrington, Disraeli, Moltke, Balfour, Elgin, Haig. Others reflected the Empire’s expansion — Canada, Monteal, Hudson. Of course there was an Empire Street, and nobody believed Klondyke Street was paved with gold". "Strange sounding names from Far Away Places" by Michael McRitchie in Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 14 May 1974.
"Resolved that the name “Empire Street”, for a new thoroughfare on the property of Messrs R.J. McConnell & Co., situate on Donegall Road, be approved". (22nd November 1921).