Office To Rent In Belfast

1. 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 Kingdom[5]. 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 about[8]. 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.

2. 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.

3. History • When Queen Victoria gave Belfast city status in 1888[21], 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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 workers—both Protestant and Catholic—in 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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