Product Description: In 1613, the small settlement of Belfast, with a population of about 1,000, was granted its Royal Charter as a borough. Three hundred years later, Belfast emerged as a city of international importance. With one of the world's largest ports, it enjoyed a brief spell as Ireland's largest urban center and was a major player in the British industrial scene...read more

Product Description: Explores the changing fortunes of the landed elite in the six counties that became Northern Ireland from the land war of the late 1870s to the last days of the Unionist government at Stormont in the 1960s. Purdue examines the social, economic, and political challenges faced by the north's landed elite-tenant agitation, the break-up of their estates, and the growing political challenge initially from Belfast's mercantile class and, eventually, from populist political movements-and determines the extent to which these undermined the foundations of their influence...read more

Product Description: This work traces the fortunes of the MacGeough Bonds, a minor gentry family of County Armagh, in an area located near Moy, through the dramatic changes that occurred in rural Ireland over half a century from 1880. It investigates they ways in which they and neighbouring landlords were affected by the social and political challenges of the time...read more