Author: Sean J. Connolly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846316340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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.
Belfast 400
Belfast
Author: W. A. Maguire
Publisher: Carnegie Pub.
ISBN: 9781859361894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Understanding the past - where we have come from and what has molded us - is important everywhere, and nowhere more so than in Northern Ireland's largest city.
Publisher: Carnegie Pub.
ISBN: 9781859361894
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Understanding the past - where we have come from and what has molded us - is important everywhere, and nowhere more so than in Northern Ireland's largest city.
A Guide to Belfast and the Counties of Down & Antrim
Author: Belfast Naturalists' Field Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antrim (Northern Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antrim (Northern Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Harvard Historical Studies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The History of the Town of Belfast [by G. Benn].
Author: George Benn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Notices of recent publications, ed. by J.W. Dean
Author: New England historic genealogical society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Catalogue of the Reference Department
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The First Irish Cities
Author: David Dickson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300255896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account reveals how the country’s cities were distinctive and—through the Irish diaspora—influential beyond Ireland’s shores.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300255896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account reveals how the country’s cities were distinctive and—through the Irish diaspora—influential beyond Ireland’s shores.
Titanic Town
Author: Mary Costello
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A coming-of-age novel set against the sectarian conflict of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A coming-of-age novel set against the sectarian conflict of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description