Belfast : the emerging city, 1850-1914 / editor, Olwen Purdue.

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Front Matter; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; List of Plates; Foreword Alf McCreary MBE; Introduction Olwen Purdue; CHAPTER 1 Markets and Messages: Linenopolis Meets the World; CHAPTER 2 Belfast: The Rise and Fall of a Civic Culture?; CHAPTER 3 Big Vision City: The Physical Transformation of Belfast by Provincial Architects, 1870-1910; CHAPTER 4 Reading Shakespeare at 22 University Square; CHAPTER 5 The Belfast Natural History Society in the Nineteenth Century: A Communication Hub; Plate Section 1.

CHAPTER 6 A Country for Young Men (Or Two Quacks and a Son of Dust)CHAPTER 7 A City 'on the rise': Travel and Tourism in Nineteenth-Century Belfast; CHAPTER 8 '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; CHAPTER 9 Edwardian Belfast: Marriage, Fertility and Religion in 1911; Plate Section 2; CHAPTER 10 'The Family Wage' A Factor in Migration? ; CHAPTER 11 Migration in Belfast History: Trajectories, Letters, Voices ; Notes; Index.

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 histo.

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