Sources

The information about the street names comes from several sources:

 

Other information comes from:

  • Bardon, Jonathan.  Belfast: An Illustrated History (Belfast, 1982).
  • Benn, George.  The History of the Town of Belfast, with an Accurate Account of its Former and Present State (Belfast, 1823).
  • Benn, George.  A History of the Town Belfast from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Eighteenth Century, 2 vols. (Belfast, 1877-80; facsimile reprint, 2008).
  • Beckett, J. C. and Glasscock, R. E. (eds).  Belfast: Origin and Growth of an Industrial City (London, BBC, 1967). 
  • Brett, C. E. B.  Buildings of Belfast, 1700-1914, revised edition (Belfast, 1985).
  • Brett, C. E. B.  Housing a Divided Community (Dublin, 1986)
  • Carleton, Trevor. ‘Malone, Belfast: The Early History of a Suburb' in Ulster Journal of Archaeology, third series, vol. 41 (1978), pp. 94-101.  Published by: Ulster Archaeological Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20567811
  • Connolly, S. J. (ed).  Belfast 400: People, Place and History (Liverpool, 2002).
  • Daly, Hugh.  A Brief History of Cliftonville Golf Club: Celebrating 100 years on the Westland Road (Belfast, 2024).
  • Dean, J. A. K.  The Gate Lodges of Ulster: A Gazetteer (Belfast, Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1994).  
  • Gaffikin, Thomas.  Belfast Fifty Years Ago: A Lecture in the Working Men’s Institute of Belfast (Belfast, 1894).
  • Gillespie, Raymond and Royle, Stephen A. (eds).  'Topographical information', in Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 12, Belfast, Part I, to 1840. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2003 (www.ihta.ie, accessed 14 April 2016), text, pp. 1–40.
  • Haines, Keith.  East Belfast: Images of Ireland (Dublin, 1997). 
  • Haines, Keith. East Belfast: Paintings and Stories from Harbour to Hills, illustrated by Martin Cooke (Donaghadee, 2001). 
  • Leslie, Rose Jane and Quail, Des.  Old Belfast. (Catrine, 2013).
  • Lowry, Mary.  The Story of Belfast and Its Surroundings (London, 1913).
  • Macaulay, Ambrose and O'Hanlon, George.  The Clergy of Down and Connor, 1400–1900 (Belfast, 2020).
  • Maguire, W. A.  Belfast, A History (Lancaster, 2009).
  • McCloy, D.  Creating Belfast: technical education and the formation of a great industrial city, 1801-1921 (Dublin, 2009).
  • McComb, William.  M'Comb's Guide to Belfast, The Giant's Causeway, and the Counties of Antrim and Down; with an Account of the Battle of Ballynahinch, etc. etc. (Belfast, 1861).
  • Molloy, Joseph (artist).  Belfast Scenery In Thirty Views, 1832, engraved by Edward K. Proctor; contributors: Fred Heatley, Hugh Dixon (Belfast, Linen Hall Library, 1983).
  • Patton, James S.  Ballymacarrett: A few sidelights on the local history of the old townland.
  • Phoenix, Éamon and Rasmussen, Sophie.  Folktown: A History of Castle Street, King Street, Berry Street, Bank Street, Marquis Street and Smithfield.  (Belfast, Folktown Community Interest Company, 2018). 
  • Royle, Stephen. and Campbell, T. J. ‘East Belfast and the suburbanisation of the north-west County Down in the nineteenth century’, in L. J. Proudfoot (ed.), Down: History and Society (Dublin, 1997), pp. 629-63.
  • Scott, Robert.  A Breath of Fresh Air: The Story of Belfast’s Parks (Belfast, 2000).
  • Weatherall, Norman and Templeton, George.  History & Guide: South Belfast (Dublin, 2008).  Includes a chapter on 'South Belfast's Street Names', pp. 9-11. 
  • Wilson, Alex.  ‘Enchanting Pictures From the Life of a Belfast Family’, Belfast Telegraph, Tuesday 25 July 1950.
  • Young, R. M. (ed.)  The Town Book of Belfast (Belfast, 1892).  
  • Obituary for Fr Hugo Kerr CSsR written by Fr Paddy O'Donnell CSsR https://unexpectedgrace.info/fr-hugo-kerr-cssr/
  • History of Westbourne in church files held by the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland.  
  • https://www.harmoni.org.uk/our-heritage/

 

Secondary and comparative sources:

  • Blackwood, Robert and Dunlevy, Deirdre A. (eds).  Multilingualism in Public Spaces (London, 2021).
  • Bryan, Dominic. ‘The Material Value of Flags: Politics and Space in Northern Ireland’, Review of Irish Studies in Europe II (2018), pp. 76-91.
  • Bryan, Dominic, Connolly, S.J. and Nagle, John. Civic identity and public space: Belfast since 1780 (Manchester, 2019).
  • Bryson, J. G.  The Streets of Derry (1625-2001) (Derry, 2001).
  • Coates, Richard. ‘The Naming of Railway Locomotives in Britian as a Cultural Indicator’, Jagiellonian University Press E-books (Kraków, 2023).
  • Dunlevy, Deirdre A. ‘Place names and the complexity of language recognition in Northern Ireland’, in Robert Blackwood, and Deirdre A. Dunlevy (eds), Multilingualism in Public Spaces (London, 2021), pp. 137-59.
  • Dutt, Varshneyee. ‘The Street Names of Inverness: A Diachronic Study of their Cultural, Political, and Religious Connotations’, Groundings XV (2024), pp. 29-43.
  • Field, John.  Place-Names of Greater London (London, 1980).
  • Mills, A. D.  Dictionary of London Place Names (Oxford, 2001).
  • Morris, E. ‘H is for History: the uses of the past in place name debates in New Zealand and Northern Ireland’ History Australia XV (2018) pp.113-29.
  • O’G. ‘Sir Walter Scott’s Visit to Ireland’, The Dublin Penny Journal I (1832), pp. 197-200.
  • Scott, Robert.  A Breath of Fresh Air: The Story of Belfast’s Parks (Belfast, 2000).
  • Smith, Al.  A Dictionary of City of London Street Names (Newton Abbot, 1970).
  • Tempan, Paul.  ‘Patterns in Belfast Street-Names’, Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review, vol. 39, 2023, pp. 112-130.
  • Tempan, Paul.  ‘John J. Marshall and his contribution to the study of Belfast street-names’, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. 79, 2024, pp. 129-34.