Abstract
Belfast, with its history of communal violence, is normally seen as lying outside the mainstream of nineteenth-century British urban development. The visit of Queen Victoria in 1849 suggests a more complex, less linear picture. What emerges is an urban identity in transition, in which aspirations to conform to an ideal of civic harmony temporarily overrode acute sectarian and political divisions, where pride in recent economic achievement sat uneasily alongside an awareness of the town’s newcomer status, and where an emerging sense of regional difference competed with a continuing assumption of Irish identity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 571-589 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Urban History |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 11 Oct 2012 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2012 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Urban Studies
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- History
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Civic Culture and Identity Practices in Belfast Since the Late Eighteenth Century
Connolly, S. (Participant)
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