• Hamartia@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    One of the things that helped with the relative prosperity of Belfast is that George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall, had amassed huge gambling debts so the family had to sell off their extensive property holdings. This was about the mid nineteenth century. There was something of an industrial boom up until the partition of Ireland.