CHH011 Belfast: The Rise of an Industrial Giant
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During the nineteenth century Belfast rose from its origins as a provincial commercial centre to become an industrial giant. What did that transformation mean for everyday life? Industrialisation created a whole new urban landscape. People moved out to the new working class districts that grew up to the west and east, or to the suburbs that lay beyond. They left behind them a town centre transformed by gas lighting and ambitious street widening projects into a place to socialise, to eat and drink, or to shop in the huge new department stores. Working lives were often grim, but there were also new opportunities, especially for women. Imposing new buildings reflected pride in the spectacular growth of the city. But behind this facade local authorities often struggled to deal with problems of pollution, overcrowding and dangerously unhealthy living conditions.
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During the nineteenth century Belfast rose from its origins as a provincial commercial centre to become an industrial giant. What did that transformation mean for everyday life? Industrialisation created a whole new urban landscape. People moved out to the new working class districts that grew up to the west and east, or to the suburbs that lay beyond. They left behind them a town centre transformed by gas lighting and ambitious street widening projects into a place to socialise, to eat and drink, or to shop in the huge new department stores. Working lives were often grim, but there were also new opportunities, especially for women. Imposing new buildings reflected pride in the spectacular growth of the city. But behind this facade local authorities often struggled to deal with problems of pollution, overcrowding and dangerously unhealthy living conditions.
Tutor: Professor Sean Connolly, BA DPhil
Main Publications
Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland (1981)
Religion, Law and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760 (1992)
Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 (2007)
Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800 (2008)
Civic Identity and Public Space Belfast since 1780 (2019)
On Every Tide: The Making and Unmaking of the Irish World (2022)
Recommended Reading:Nineteenth-Century Ireland D.G. Boyce
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan
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