Belfast 1938 1968

Author : Mike Maybin
Publisher : Cumha
ISBN 13 : 9781857942569
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belfast in the Age of the Trolleybus written by Mike Maybin and published by Cumha. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belfast Corporation operated the largest trolleybus system in the UK outside London, and its heyday was in the 1950s. This book captures the flavour of that period with more than 200 photographs, covering the city route by route, with additional sections on depots, tickets and preserved vehicles.

Author : Christopher Norton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526112140
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The politics of constitutional nationalism in Northern Ireland, 1932–70 written by Christopher Norton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the changed political landscape of Northern Ireland, where all major political parties with a nationalist agenda are now reconciled to the use of peaceful and constitutional means to achieve their objectives, this book presents a timely analysis of the constitutional nationalist tradition in Northern Ireland in the period leading up to the outbreak of the Troubles. The first book on constitutional nationalism to appear in over a decade, this new and incisive work based on extensive primary sources and existing secondary literature, maps the history of the campaigns of nationalist parties and organisations to redress the grievances of Northern Ireland’s Catholics and bring partition to an end. It offers a critical reappraisal of these campaigns and it assesses the outcomes and consequences of the political strategies pursued by an array of nationalist parties and groups.

Author : Aidan Campbell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398105872
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belfast Reflections written by Aidan Campbell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of merged historic and modern images that reflect the changes in Belfast through the decades.

Author : Aidan Campbell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445636603
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belfast Through Time written by Aidan Campbell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Belfast has changed and developed over the last century.

Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399022555
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Trolleybus Systems written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the ‘trackless tram’ (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country’s pioneering operators of trolleybuses. Some of the earliest operators were in Lancashire, northern England and Scotland; indeed Scotland can lay claim to having both the first system in Britain to close – Dundee in 1914 – and the last to open – Glasgow in 1949. This volume – one of four that examines the history of all trolleybus operators in the British Isles – focuses on Lancashire, Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Author : Mike Maybin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857940688
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nostalgic Look at Belfast Trolleybuses, 1938-1968 written by Mike Maybin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan O'Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317897110
Total Pages : 819 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800 written by Alan O'Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern Irish history from the passing of the Act of Union to the premiership of Bertie Ahern. Offering a full chronology , this book gives the reader a full insight on major aspects of modern Irish history. The book explores population, education, social structure and religion; economic statistics covering agriculture, trade, prices and wages, transport and unemployment and a further wealth of material on Irish women's history, treaties, elections, law, communications, a glossary and biographical information.

Author : Johnny McKeagney
Publisher : In the Ould Ago
ISBN 13 : 0956697607
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In The Ould Ago - Illustrated Irish Folklore written by Johnny McKeagney and published by In the Ould Ago. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘In The Ould Ago’, meaning a long time ago, is a book of Illustrated Irish Folklore book by Johnny McKeagney. Comprising of two hundred intricately hand-drawn illustrated pages of Irish traditions, crafts, history, emigration, countryside, farming ways, wildlife, myths and customs it is all sewn together in a case-bound hardback A3 size cover. A self-taught historian and artist, his prefaces are written by some heavy-hitting academics and historians. For forty years Johnny collected Irish folklore by pen and tape recorder. He details stories and events then sketches all the salient points with a fine nib so that readers of any age can easily visualize the topics. ‘In The Ould Ago’ has been selected to be displayed in top North American university libraries including Harvard, Notre Dame, Library of Congress in Washington, UCLA, Boston College and New York Public Libraries. Johnny's illustrated and written collection is now in the Fermanagh museum while his recorded material is being digitised by the UCD Folklore Department for the National Irish Archive. This special coffee table publication won a Judges Special Award in the International Rubery Book Awards and an Honorable Mention in the History section of the San Francisco Book Festivals Awards. Sadly Johnny passed away on the 1st of December 2010, just 5 weeks after his book was published. Seeing 40 years of collecting and sketching published in ‘In The Ould Ago’ gave him tremendous happiness. FolkloreBook.com gives a sense of the author and his work.

Author : Raymond Gillespie
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781903688724
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Belfast written by Raymond Gillespie and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For most people, nineteenth-century Belfast is the very essence of an industrial city, boasting as it did by 1900 the world's largest spinning mill, the most productive shipyard, the biggest ropeworks and tobacco factory. This book looks beyond that world to reveal an earlier Belfast where the foundations for its later industrial prowess were laid. It charts the town's remarkable growth from site to city, from the first mentions of it as long ago as the seventh century through to the 13th-century Anglo-Norman settlement and Gaelic revival, to the Plantation town of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It re-traces not only the development of the early streets, and their names, but also the lives of those who walked and lived in them. In doing so it recreates something of the thriving commercial settlement and port that came increasingly to dominate the life of the region it served - Ulster - in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." "Using a unique series of maps, together with archaeological and documentary evidence that has been expertly pieced together, the book revolutionises our understanding of this, the most Ulster of towns, before the coming of industrialisation. Just as importantly, it reminds us that Belfast has always stood, in the poet Derek Mahon's lyrical phrase, a 'hill at the top of every street'."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 152677061X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Trolleybus Systems—Yorkshire written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the 'trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators of trolleybuses. Whilst, in Leeds, the trolleybus was destined to have a fairly peripheral role (and finally disappeared in 1928), in Bradford, perhaps as a consequence of the hills surrounding the city centre which represented ideal territory for the trolleybus, the 'trackless' was destined to have a long and illustrious career stretching for more than 60 years until - on 26 March 1972 - the final first-generation trolleybus system finally succumbed to the all-conquering motorbus. This is the first of two volumes to cover the history of all of the trolleybus operators of the British Isles and focuses on those systems in the North of England and Scotland as well as the only network in Northern Ireland - Belfast. The book includes comprehensive fleet and route histories allied to some 250 illustrations, both color and mono, including a map of each network featured.