The Harland and Wolff shipyard can be seen from a neighborhood in East Belfast.
2024-07-25 739词 中等
The company was central to the boom which built Belfast into a manufacturing behemoth of the early 20th century. The yard’s massive yellow gantry cranes, Samson and Goliath, have become emblematic of Northern Ireland’s capital. A marble statue of Edward Harland still stands outside Belfast city hall. The firm he built has a darker resonance, too. As Ireland moved towards partition in 1920, more than 2,000 Catholic workers were violently expelled from the yard. To this day, just 10% of its workforce is Catholic.
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