A History Of The Town Of Belfast
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Belfast 400
Author | : Sean J. Connolly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781846316340 |
Marking the four-hundredth anniversary of Belfast's foundation, Belfast 400 offers a new history of one of the world's most fascinating—and misunderstood—cities. Drawing on a wide range of research by several scholars, S. J. Connolly shows how Belfast grew to become a place of contested identity and economics and why it would become one of the main theaters of Irish independence and the many violent events that would define it. Belfast and its history are full of contradictions. It was a significant part of Great Britain's rise to industrial greatness, but it is located not on the island of Great Britain, but in Ireland. While it was central to the establishment of a unique Irish identity, its politics and industrial character set it wholly apart from other Irish cities. An important part of the history of Ireland and the United Kingdom both, Belfast has never fit neatly into the accepted narrative of either. Belfast 400 gets beneath these complexities by raising crucial questions at every post along its history. Why, with its seemingly unfavorable position—a waterlogged river mouth—did it become one of the first human settlements in the area? How did it evolve from a minor outpost to a major city, and how did it expand into one of the world's largest centers of shipbuilding and textile manufacturing? What did this industrial development and the eventual decline of manufacturing mean for the people who lived there? Finally, how can Belfast—still managing fraught political relationships between its own citizens—redefine its identity and face the new challenges of the twenty-first century? By raising these and many other questions, Belfast 400 sheds new light on one of the most complex cities in northern Europe.
History of Belfast
Author | : Sir David John Owen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
ISBN | : |
Representing Belfast's Pasts
Author | : Raymond Gillespie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-08-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781846828683 |
From port to commercial centre, and from textile town to centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted, chameleon-like, to changing circumstances. Each of these changes has resulted in a reimagination of the city's past to make it useable for the present. That has taken many forms. As the town grew in the nineteenth century, local historians, most particularly George Benn, provided Belfast with a narrative that charted and explained its past and charted the topographical development from small village to international industrial city. Benn and his fellow antiquarians were not alone. Others joined in the quest for a useable past for this emerging city. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries novelists, artists, travellers, photographers, Irish-language enthusiasts and memoir writers all created their own images of Belfast's past. These essays reveal the works they created in an effort to explain their own worlds to contemporaries through the medium of the past.
A Bibliography of British Municipal History, Including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation
Author | : Charles Gross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
The History of the Town of Belfast [by G. Benn].
Author | : George Benn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1823 |
Genre | : Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
ISBN | : |
History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine
Author | : Joseph Williamson |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 1010 |
Release | : 2024-06-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385536472 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.