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.
Mark Doyle Knihy
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