Portrait of an Industrial City: 'Clanging Belfast', 1750-1914

by Stephen A. Royle

'Hammers clanging' was the sound that the great nineteenth-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray associated with Belfast when he visited it in 1842. By then, Belfast's industrial development was well under way. Had Thackeray visited the city in 1900, he would not have been surprised to find that it was by then the fastest-growing city in the British Isles. It had outstripped Dublin as the largest on the island of Ireland; indeed, it ranked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908448067
• ISBN13: 9781908448064
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"