Béal Feirste:Belfast

A Family Story of a Community's Struggle

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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When Séamus Ó Tuama inherited his father Diarmuid's incomplete manuscript – a history of the nationalist experience in Belfast over decades of upheaval – he set out to complete it, weaving in the family's own history and personal experiences.Béal Feirste: Belfast transforms Belfast's turbulent history into an intimate story spanning four generations – from Daniel Twomey, a post-Famine farm boy from the Cork-Kerry border who became an economic conscript in the British Army stationed in Victorian Belfast, to his great-grandson Diarmuid Ó Tuama's pioneering role in the city's Irish language renaissance.This family memoir places one community at the centre of Belfast's most defining moments: the plantation, the pogroms, the Troubles and the cultural revolution that followed.Béal Feirste: Belfast is never just one person's story – it is a community's struggle, told from the ground up, by people who lived it. Today, Belfast nurtures one of Ireland's most dynamic urban Gaeltachts, where the language now thrives in the thousands of young voices of a new generation. This is Belfast's story. One family's telling of it.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-23
Mått:135 x 215 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:The Mercier Press
ISBN:9781806900046

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Séamus Ó Tuama is a historian and educator with a deep commitment to the Irish language and Irish culture. His passion for local and national history was rooted in a childhood immersed in Irish songs and stories and deepened after the untimely passing of his father, Diarmuid Ó Tuama, a prominent figure in Belfast's Irish-language revival. In completing his father's unfinished manuscript – a history of Belfast from a native Irish perspective – Séamus has woven together family memoir and historical narrative in Béal Feirste: Belfast, his first book.He is Principal of Bunscoil Phobal Feirste, the North's first Irish-medium school, and holds qualifications in Celtic Studies, Education (M.Ed.), Science (M.Sc.), and the Professional Qualification for Headship. His work bridges personal heritage and community history, offering a ground-level perspective on Belfast's transformation over four generations.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1:Planting the Seeds - How it all Began.Chapter 2:Radical Belfast - Penal Laws & The Bold Unitedmen.Chapter 3: Industrial Belfast and The Great Hunger.Chapter 4:Manic Street Preachers - A Century of Riots.Chapter 5:Rekindling the Fenian Flame - Revolutionary Belfast.Chapter 6:The Empire Strikes Back - From Pogroms to Partition.Chapter 7:Guns & Empty Promises -The Treaty.Chapter 8:From the Hungry Thirties to the Twilight Years.Chapter 9:Polluting the Water - Civil Rights and the Troubles.Chapter 10:Enemies (and Friends) of the State - Collusion.Chapter 11:The ‘Illegals’- An Ghaeilge in Belfast.