Belfast
Subtitle: the emerging city, 1850-1914
By: editor, Olwen Purdue
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780716531456; 9780716531678; 9780716532095
Subjects: History; Social conditions
Description: "In 1613, the small settlement of Belfast, with a population of about 1,000, was granted its Royal Charter as a borough. Three hundred years later, Belfast emerged as a city of international importance. With one of the world's largest ports, it enjoyed a brief spell as Ireland's largest urban center and was a major player in the British industrial scene. Unique in being an Irish city with a self-consciously British identity, the city reveled in, and in many ways depended upon, its central role within the British Empire. This book celebrates and explores an exciting period in the city's history: 1850-1914, which was Belfast's own Belle Epoque. By focusing on the people of the city - those who built it, lived in it, visited it, worked in it, and governed it - the book presents a kaleidoscope of snapshots which combine to reveal the rich and varied experiences of life, both temporal and spiritual, in the emerging city. It is a remarkable picture of the role Belfast played in the urban history of Victorian Britain and Ireland"--Books.google.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Markets and messages : Linenopolis meets the world / Edwin James Aiken, Stephen A. Royle; title: Belfast : the rise and fall of a civic culture? / S.J. Connolly; title: Big vision city : the physical transformation of Belfast by provincial architects, 1870-1910 / Paul Harron; title: Reading Shakespeare at 22 University Square / Pamela Emerson; title: The Belfast Natural History Society in the nineteenth century : a communication hub / Ruth Bowman Bayles; title: A country for young men (or Two quacks and a son of dust) / Glenn Patterson; title: A city "on the rise" : travel and tourism in nineteenth-century Belfast / Éadaoin Agnew; title: "A noble church in the most Catholic quarter of a bitterly Protestant and Presbyterian city" : the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Clonard, West Belfast / Caroline M. McGee; title: Edwardian Belfast : marriage, fertility and religion in 1911 / Liam Kennedy, Lucia Pozzi, Matteo Manfredini; title: "The family wage" - a factor in migration? / Lesley E.E. Donaldson; title: Migration in Belfast history : trajectories, letters, voices / Brian Lambkin, Patrick Fitzgerald, Johanne Devlin Trew.