Office To Rent In Belfast

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Office To Rent In Belfast 

• Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern
  Ireland, is located on the banks of the River
  Lagan on the country's east coast. Its Irish
  name, Beal Fairest, means "mouth of the sand-bank
  ford." It is the second-largest city in Ireland
  and the twelfth-largest city in the United
  Kingdom5. 343,542 people called it home as of
  2019. When Ireland was divided violently,
  particularly during the more recent conflict
  known as the Troubles, Belfast suffered
  immensely.
• Belfast was a significant port by the early 19th
  century. It contributed significantly to
  Ireland's Industrial Revolution and momentarily
  surpassed all other linen-producing countries,
  gaining the moniker "Linen polis." When it
  received city status in 1888, it was already a
  significant hub for the production of Irish
  linen, processing tobacco, and making rope. The
  RMS Titanic was constructed at the world's
  largest shipyard, Harland and Wolff, which was
  also a major industry. A significant aerospace
  and missiles sector exists in Belfast as of 2019.
  Belfast is the largest city in Northern Ireland
  as a result of industrialization and the inward
  migration it brought about8. Belfast became
  Northern Ireland's capital after the island of
  Ireland was divided in 1921.
• Belfast is still a port, and the Harland Wolff
  shipyard and other industrial and commercial
  docks dominate the Belfast Lough shoreline. There
  are two airports that service it George Best
  Belfast City Airport, which is located 3 miles (5
  km) from the city center, and Belfast
  International Airport, which is located 15 miles
  (24 km) west of the city. Belfast was designated
  a Gamma global city by the Globalization and
  World Cities Research Network (Gawks) for the
  year 2020.

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Name

• Belfast's name comes from the Irish Beal Frieze,
  which was later spelled Beal Fairest (Irish
  pronunciation). Beal, which means "mouth" or
  "river-mouth," and fierce/fairest, which is the
  genitive singular of fear said and denotes a
  sandbar or tidal ford over a river's mouth, are
  both forms of the word fear said. In other words,
  the name directly translates to "(river) mouth of
  the sandbar" or "(river) mouth of the ford." The
  Lagan, which empties into Belfast Lough, and the
  Far set of rivers converged at the current
  Donegal Quay, where the sandbar was created
  ("mouth of the Far set" might be an alternative
  interpretation) This region evolved into the
  center around which the initial settlement grew.
• The creators of Ulster-Scots use various
  transcriptions of regional pronunciations of
  "Belfast"with which they are occasionally also
  satisfied.

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History

• When Queen Victoria gave Belfast city status in
  188821, the city's county borough was
  established, and it continues to straddle County
  Antrim on the left bank of the Lagan and County
  Down on the right.
• Origins
• Since the Bronze Age, people have lived on the
  Belfast site. The 5,000-year-old Giant's Ring is
  close to the city and the ruins of Iron Age hill
  forts may still be seen in the hills nearby. In
  the Middle Ages, Belfast remained a minor town of
  limited significance. In the late twelfth or
  early thirteenth century, the Normans might have
  constructed a castle on the land that is today
  bordered by Donegal Place, Castle Place, Corn
  market, and Castle Lane.
• The O'Neill dynasty was the dominant Irish force
  in the area as the rulers of Clandeboye. The last
  of the local line, Conn O'Neill (remembered in
  Connswater River), was compelled to sell their
  last stronghold, the Gray Castle or Castle Reach
  (An Caitlin Riabhach in Irish), in the hills east
  of Belfast, along with neighboring lands, to
  English and Scottish explorers in 1616 following
  the Nine Years' War.

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The early town

• Chi Chester also had Belfast Castle rebuilt. At
  the Corporation Church on the quayside end of
  High Street, the mostly English and Manx settlers
  participated in an Anglican service of communion.
  However, it was Scottish Presbyterians that
  helped the town develop into an industrial port.
  Together with Huguenot exiles from France, they
  established the linen business, which brought
  Belfast trade to the Americas.
• Flax growers and linen merchants benefited from a
  three-way exchange since they didn't want to let
  a valuable crop go to seed. Hauling salted
  foodstuffs, sugar, and rum to Baltimore and New
  York, as well as carrying rough linen garments to
  slave estates in the West Indies and returning to
  Belfast, was lucrative.
• Presbyterians were aware of sharing, if only in
  part, the hardships of Ireland's dispossessed
  Roman Catholic majority and of being refused
  representation in the Irish Parliament as
  "Dissenters" from the established Church. The
  Marquises of Donegal continued to nominate
  Belfast's two MPs. The Presbyterians in the area
  would eventually share a rising disaffection with
  the Crown with their American cousins.

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• Belfast Lough was invaded by the privateer John
  Paul Jones at the beginning of the American War
  of Independence, prompting the locals to form
  their own Volunteer militia. The Volunteers, who
  had supposedly been formed to defend the Kingdom,
  soon began to push their own protest against
  "taxation without representation." The United
  Irishmen, a more radical faction in the town,
  demanded Catholic freedom, feeling encouraged
  even more by the French Revolution.
• The Belfast Entries, 17th-century alleyways off
  High Street, are among the remaining parts of the
  early pre-Victorian town. These include White's
  Tavern in Wine cellar's Entry, the First
  Presbyterian (Non-Subscribing) Church in Rosemary
  Street (whose members led the abolitionist charge
  against Greg and Cunningham, St. George's Church
  of Ireland on the High Street site of the old
  Corporation Church, and the oldest public
  building in Belfast, Clifton.

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The industrial city

• Landless Catholics from remote rural and western
  areas were attracted by the nineteenth century's
  rapid industrial boom, and the majority of them
  settled to the west of the town. Insecurity was a
  result of the easy access to inexpensive labor,
  which attracted English and Scottish money to
  Belfast. The once largely rural Orange Order
  found new life in the town thanks to Protestant
  workers' organizations to protect their access to
  jobs and homes. Movements to annul the Acts of
  Union (which came after the 1798 uprising) and to
  reestablish a Parliament in Dublin exacerbated
  sectarian tensions. Given the progressive
  expansion of the electorate in Britain, this
  would have had a lopsided Catholic majority and,
  according to popular belief, interests hostile to
  the Protestant.

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• Sectarian conflict was not unique to Belfast it
  also existed in Liverpool and Glasgow, two towns
  that had seen significant Irish Catholic
  immigration after the Great Famine. However, the
  "industrial triangle" had a history of labor
  militancy as well. Workers in all three cities
  went on strike in 1919 to demand a ten-hour
  workweek reduction. Despite the political tension
  brought on by Sinn Fein's electoral victory in
  the south, this featured 60,000 workersboth
  Protestant and Catholicin Belfast participating
  in a four-week walkout.
• Unionists at Belfast City Hall delivered the
  Ulster Covenant in 1912 as a sign of their
  determination to resist submission to a Dublin
  parliament. The Ulster Covenant and a companion
  Declaration for Women would eventually garner
  over 470,000 signatures. The training and
  eventual arming of a 100,000-strong Ulster
  Volunteer Force came next. The Great War, whose
  sacrifices of the UVF are still remembered in the
  city (Somme Day) by unionist and loyalist
  organizations, brought an end to the conflict.
• Belfast became the capital of the six counties
  that made up Northern Ireland in the United
  Kingdom in 1921, when the majority of Ireland
  declared its independence as the Irish Free
  State.

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