play Belfast shifts from linen to ships How Belfast built on its ... Edward Harland had bought the yard in 1858. Gustav Wolff, whose uncle was extremely well connected in the Hamburg merchant ...

In the Northern Irish capital, the healing and uniting powers of music and art are being used to reconcile the past, look to ...

The new initiatives were implemented by the Linen Quarter Business Improvement District (BID) and Belfast City Council. Businesses in the area, which lies to the south of Belfast City Hall ...

Mechanised looms and spinning wheels meant that Belfast became the leading centre of linen production in the ... just an outhouse in the back yard. Children would have played games like kick ...