Belfast 1000 Years by Jonathan Bardon & Stephen Conlin Pub 1985 by Blackstaff Press

Описание: If you are interested in Belfast history, 'the way things were', can I invite you to get hold of a copy of,
'Belfast 1000 Years,' by Jonathan Bardon & Stephen Conlin.

( Check out you local library or if you want your own copy you could keep a watch out at any good second hand bookshop. )
This copy is loaned to me by my good friend Chris.

'Belfast 1000 Years' by Jonathan Bardon & Stephen Conlin

Here we have the history of Belfast from 985 AD -1985 AD, encapsulated in a large 34 page picture book. ( including Index and Bibliography )

We 'travel', through time from, a Belfast that was little more than a swampy river crossing at the mouth of the Farcet. As the decades roll by, we see it develop into a Norman and Plantation stronghold. It becomes a cockpit of rebellion where blood letting is never far away.
Later it moves to being a powerhouse of industry and a city of growing prosperity. It's a shipbuilding world leader hip and then in Easter 1941 it's being blitzed by totally unexpected Lufwaffe bombs. In the 70s 80s and 90s we live through a barrage of killings and bombings with the spotlight shining on the Oxford Street Bus Station bomb in particular. Finally we end on a happier note on the 10th June 1985 as a triumphant Barry McGuigan is held aloft on Royal Avenue after winning his World Boxing Championship fight.

' Forty one years ago, Barry McGuigan captured the WBA and lineal featherweight titles when his hand was raised after 15 rounds against Eusebio Pedroza at a jubilant Loftus Road.
The 'Clones Cyclone' was on a 27-fight winning streak.
Pedroza had reigned on the world stage for seven years and made 19 successful defences before taking on McGuigan in front of a crowd of more than 26,000 in London.
It was the Irish fighter who had the upper hand, flooring his Panamanian opponent in the seventh round en route to a wide unanimous decision victory.'

15 full pages are devoted to Stephen Conlin's detailed imagined coloured pictures of how Belfast might have looked like on specific dates throughout it's history.
15 pages are alternatively devoted to actual known history relating to those dates. e g The Execution in Belfast Cornmarket, of United Irishmen leader, Henry Joy McCracken on Tuesday 17th July 1798.

If you want to know about Belfast history. This book is a very easy read!