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A work about Belfast in the middle of the nineteenth century. It looks at how and why Ireland's most prosperous and industrialized town began to tear itself apart. It tells that through a series of steadily escalating riots, working-class Protestants and Catholics forged a tradition of violence that profoundly shaped their own identities.

Table of Contents

List of maps and illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction.
1. Defending the faith: evangelicalism and anti-Catholicism
2. Belfast Catholics: 'a mere incohesive heap'
3. An unenviable notoriety: the 1857 riots
4. Local government and Catholic alienation
5. The idea of order: Dublin Castle and Belfast Protestants
6. The city erupts: August 1864
7. Glasgow: sectarian détente
8. Memories of violence, 1864-1886
Epilogue
Appendix: 1864 riot ballads
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2009
      ISBN13: 9780719079535, 978-0719079535
      ISBN10: 719079535

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A work about Belfast in the middle of the nineteenth century. It looks at how and why Ireland's most prosperous and industrialized town began to tear itself apart. It tells that through a series of steadily escalating riots, working-class Protestants and Catholics forged a tradition of violence that profoundly shaped their own identities.

      Table of Contents

      List of maps and illustrations
      Acknowledgements
      List of abbreviations
      Introduction.
      1. Defending the faith: evangelicalism and anti-Catholicism
      2. Belfast Catholics: 'a mere incohesive heap'
      3. An unenviable notoriety: the 1857 riots
      4. Local government and Catholic alienation
      5. The idea of order: Dublin Castle and Belfast Protestants
      6. The city erupts: August 1864
      7. Glasgow: sectarian détente
      8. Memories of violence, 1864-1886
      Epilogue
      Appendix: 1864 riot ballads
      Bibliography
      Index

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