Belfast: A Century

by Jonathan Bardon, Bardon Jonathan

A pictorial record of the 20th century in Belfast. Decade by decade, the great events are captured in photographs - the home rule crisis, the launch of the Titantic, the Great War, the upheavals of the 1920s and the establishment of a seperate parliament for Northern Ireland, the Hungry Thirties and the growth of aircraft production at Shorts, World War II and the catastrophic blitz of 1941, the Princess Victoria tragedy of 1953, the launch of the Canberra, the first civil rights agitation, the outbreak of the ferocious conflict that was to last 30 years and the euphoria of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 2000