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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157420003321

Autore

Royle Stephen A (Stephen Arthur)

Titolo

Portrait of an industrial city : "clanging Belfast", 1750-1914 / / Stephen A. Royle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Belfast : , : Ulster Historical Foundation, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-908448-14-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Disciplina

941.6/7081

Soggetti

Belfast (Northern Ireland) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Portrait of an Industrial City; Preface: 'Clanging Belfast'; 1 'The town broke loose': growth; 2 'A permanent and profitable channel of industrial enterprise'; 3 A 'saturnalia of bigotry and ruffianism': street life and politics; 4 'The inhabitants of this town are industrious and careful. But methinks not so sociable as in other places'; Postscript: Belfast in 1914: 'really a wonder'?; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Clanging: Belfast in its industrial pomp must have been noisy: shipyards manipulating sheets of metal, the constant riveting being only one source of racket; the endless clatter from linen mills, the screeching of trams on unyielding rails, sirens and hooters marking time at the factories. There were steam trains and steam engines in addition to horses' hooves beating on the streets. The rumbustious, often riotous, eternally spirited Belfast people packed into the terraced houses as well as the alleys would have added their din, especially around the drinking dens. The noise is gone, one as