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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480171703321

Autore

Bryan Dominic

Titolo

Civic identity and public space : Belfast since 1780 / / Dominic Bryan and S.J. Connolly, with John Nagle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-5261-3831-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

941.67

Soggetti

Public spaces

Civilization

HISTORY - Europe - Great Britain

Public spaces - Northern Ireland - Belfast

History

Electronic books.

Northern Ireland Belfast

Belfast (Northern Ireland) Civilization History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction<BR>Chapter 1 The origins of public space<BR>Chapter 2 Lord Donegall's town<BR>Chapter 3 The making of a municipal culture<BR>Chapter 4 Freedom and order<BR>Chapter 5 Public space and civil conflict<BR>Chapter 6 Public space and the Protestant state<BR>Chapter 7 New directions? The 1960s<BR>Chapter 8 Violence and carnival: renegotiating public space 1970-2008<BR>Chapter 9 Shared space or divided future?<BR>Conclusion Public space -- past lessons and future strategies<BR>Index

Sommario/riassunto

Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades, flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in Northern Ireland. It examines the emergence during the nineteenth century of the concept



of public space and the development of new strategies for its regulation, the establishment, the new conditions created by the emergence in 1920 of a Northern Ireland state, of a near monopoly of public space enjoyed by Protestants and unionists, and the break down of that monopoly in more recent decades. Today policy makers and politicians struggle to devise a strategy for the management of public space in a divided city, while endeavouring to promote a new sense of civic identity that will transcend long-standing sectarian and political divisions.