Linenopolis – When Belfast Led The World In Linen Production
Flax flowers on Irish LInen When and why did Northern Ireland’s capital city, Belfast become known as ‘Linenopolis’? Linen production was once a huge industry across the entire island of Ireland, accounting for almost sixty per cent of Ireland’s exports by the end of the eighteenth century. Production moved from a domestic cottage industry and …
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