In Belfast by the Sea

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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"In Belfast by the Sea" originally appeared as a series of 61 articles in the "Belfast Telegraph", 1923-4. They comprise Moore's recollections of Victorian Belfast and Bangor between his childhood in the 1860s and his departure for London in 1892. Highpoints are a tour of the city centre in which he recollects the shops and public buildings as they were in his youth, his reminiscences of his education at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and his description of the city's musical and theatrical life. His descriptions of the development of the city's water and transport networks include an account of the first public appearance of the Dunlop inflatable tyre and travelling conditions on the early railway services.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-09-24
Mått123 x 186 x 15 mm
Vikt204 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieClassics of Irish History
Antal sidor208
FörlagUniversity College Dublin Press
ISBN9781904558866

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Introduction by Patrick Maume. I In Old Belfast; II The Clan MacMahon; III Mainly About Bangor That Was; IV Pews and their Occupants More than Forty years Ago; V Omitted; VI Great Organist at Bangor Castle; VII Kindly Curate and the 'Divil'; VIII Royal Ulster Club's Origin; IX Hesperus Becalmed off Black Head; X-XI Omitted; XII Wreck as Fishing Rendezvous; XIII From Garmoyle to South Atlantic; XIV Boats with Electric Names; XV Custom House Steps Reached; XVI Custom House Steps Recollections; XVII Purchase of Ormeau: A Piano Story; XVIII The Petrified Eaves on Quayside; XIX Alabama's Hurried Flight Spoils a Projected 'Raid'; XX One-Time Picturesque Blackstaff; XXI How Solicitor Fooled the Court; XXII American Civil War and Linen Boom; XXIII Greatest 'Fry' City Ever Had; XXIV When World First Saw Dunlop Tyres; XXV Irish Jaunting Car's Merits; XXVI Pony-Drawn Cromac Water-Cart; XXVII Recollections of St George's; XXVIII Ulster Coat's Origin; XXIX The Royal Ulster Works; XXX Beggared by Kindness; XXXI Belfast's Main Artery, or Rise of Royal Avenue; XXXII In the Heart of Belfast; XXXIII Doubles of Royalty; XXXIV Unrecognised Festivals; XXXV Belfast and Darwinism; XXXVI Famous Belfast Firms; XXXVII Great Irish Artist; XXXVIII Wielding the Long Bow; XXXIX Dead Man Who Groaned; XL Presbyterian Champions; XLI Oysters and Singing; XLII Belfast and Jenny Lind; XLIII Duval the Versatile; XLIV Song that Saved 'Dorothy'; XLV Barton M'Guckin's Nose; XLVI Irving and Belfast; XLVII Belfast Musical Memories; XLVIII Philharmonic Jubilee; XLIX Belfast Music Stories; L Nightingales' Discord; LI Belfast Hotel Problem; LII Newspapers of Belfast; LIII Two Remarkable Careers Start in Donegall Street; LIV Belfastman on Woolsack; LV The Days of My Youth; LVI 50 Years Ago at 'Inst'; LVII Father of Lady Pirrie. LVIII Boys of the Old Brigade; LIX 'Murdering' Cleopatra and Wrecking her Barge; LX On the Stage and Off; LXI The Stage in Belfast; Notes.

"University College Dublin Press has now published over thirty 'Classics of Irish History'. These contemporary accounts by well known personalities of historical events and attitudes have an immediacy that conventional histories do not have. Introductions by modern historians provide additional historical background and, with hindsight, objectivity." Books Ireland Nov 2007 "Scholars of nineteenth-century Irish and Irish-American politics should reacquaint themselves with these classics, part of a long running and immensely useful series from University College Dublin Press. Patrick Maume has edited and written the introductions for no less than nine of the books in this series, lending them his breadth of knowledge and keen analysis that have made him one of the most learned and intellectually generous young scholars in the field." Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2008