Enduring City: Belfast in the Twentieth Century PDF
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DATE DUE |! Demco, Inc. 38 293 ENDURING CITY Belfast in the Twentieth Century gy4 \ STODSEA LAAL EL tiey aoe ee gti neok ENDURING CITY Belfast in the Twentieth Century Edited by Frederick W. Boal and Stephen A. Royle with the cartographical assistance of Maura E. Pringle BLACKSTAFF PRESS IN ASSOCIATION WITH BELFAST CITY COUNCIL AND IRISH HISTORIC TOWNS ATLAS, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY Page i: A cyclist on Victoria Street, c. 1915 ULSTER FOLK & TRANSPORT MUSEUM Frontispiece: Laganside at dusk CHRIS HILL Page v: Samson and Goliath, and the Albert Bridge ROBERT SCOTT Page vi: Edward VII at the unveiling of the statue of his mother, Queen Victoria, at Belfast City Hall, 27 July 1903. After saluting the statue, he was heard to remark, Beautiful, isn’t it? The best I have seen.’ ALUN EVANS First published in 2006 by Blackstaff Press Limited 4c Heron Wharf, Sydenham Business Park Belfast BT3 9LE © Foreword, Emrys Jones, 2006 © Introduction, Frederick W. Boal and Stephen A. Royle, 2006 © The contributors, 2006 © Photographs as indicated in captions, 2006 All rights reserved The contributors have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work. Design by Dunbar Design and Graphic Base Printed by W. & G. Baird Ltd, County Antrim A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-85640-790-9 This publication is grant-aided by Belfast City Council. The views expressed are not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Council. The Council does not accept any responsibility or liability for same. www.blackstaffpress.com www.belfastcity.gov.uk To my mother, Mabel Boal, whose life began with the Belfast of 1900, who experienced the story of the city in the twentieth century and who lives on into the twenty-first (FWB), and to our grandchildren, Jake Searle (SAR), Jason Apsley, Lauren, Liam and Gemma Boal (FWB), born near the turn of the twenty-first century, who will see how the Belfast story turns out.
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