Abstract
AT the beginning of his chapters entitled ‘Late Victorian Belfast’ in Beckett and Glasscock’s compilation, Professor Emrys Jones cites from an unnamed newspaper of 1853 a remarkable piece of Belfast self-congratulation: ‘this great emporium of trade, manufacturing and commerce now exciting the attention and claiming the admiration of every community whose good example we have been following, and of every community to which, in our turn, we present a model of imitation’. But this effusion was not untypical. The Belfast News Letter in the late 1850s and early 1860s waxed lyrical about the boom town, e.g. ‘warehouses of large dimensions and great beauty’; ‘the steam-hammer and steam-punch cease not from morning till night’.2KeywordsTown CouncilShipbuilding IndustryNews LetterHome RuleMorning NewsThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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