Faces of Change: The Belfast and Northern Ireland Chambers of Commerce and Industry, 1783-1983.
Author: CHAMBERS, George.
Belfast: The Belfast and Northern Ireland Chambers of Commerce and Industry, 1983. vi, 314 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
“Two hundred years ago Belfast was a town of only thirteen thousand inhabitants. Yet it was a centre of international trade, a Mecca for industrial entrepreneurs, a home of liberal thought, and the cockpit of Irish politics. Most of that was due to the quite exceptional personal qualities of its merchants, and it was those same merchants who formed the Belfast Chamber of Commerce in the autumn of 1783. This is their story and the story of their successors — people who have shaped and changed the industrial and commercial face of Ulster over the past two hundred years. And in that story there are many lessons for the people of Ulster today, and many reminders of the breadth and depth of their heritage.”
ISBN: 0901925012
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