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Books, Maps & Other Resources Ireland & Northern Ireland Genealogy & History More Ireland, Northern Ireland & Irish Resources BOOK - Merchants in Plenty: Joseph Smyth's Belfast Directories of 1807 and 1808 With an Historical Introduction and Bibliography of Belfast Directories to 1900 by J. R. R. Adams By Joseph Smyth and J. R. R. Adams 
The Belfast of the first decade of the nineteenth century was a bustling and growing town of some 22,000 inhabitants. It was dominated by the cotton industry and the linen trade. The foundations of such potentially important enterprises as engineering and shipbuilding were being laid. Yet this was still a period when a trip to Dublin took twenty-one hours by coach (with a double guard for extra security) and
when the inhabitants were ferried round the town by sedan chair. The directories here reprinted, from unique copies in the Linen Hall Library, vividly recreate this Belfast of cotton mills and learned societies, sailmakers and booksellers. It will be of interest both to genealogists and to those who care for the history of Belfast. 88 Pages 6 X 9" Map: Belfast 1791 Published by Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 1992 ISBN: 0-901905-49-6
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