Unlikely Success Story: The Belfast Shipbuilding Industry 1880-1935

Shipbuilding was a most unlikely success story in Belfast and its prosperity was created by a strange mixture of entrepreneurial ability, timing, technical

expertise and employment patterns. It was the last of the 'main' industries to develop in Belfast but in terms of wealth-creation and prestige, it was perhaps the greatest of the city's employers.

By the start of the twentieth century Belfast had become one of the main centres of the British shipbuilding industry and, in some years before ...