Belfast

Question 1

Traffic

Answer 1

Air traffic - BA in Belfast City Airport

Sea traffic - containerisation

Question 2

Tourism

Answer 2

Titanic Visitor Centre
Giants Causeway
Game of Thrones

Question 3

Physical geo

Answer 3

Belfast Lough is accessible
More trae and shipbuilding
Working class migrants

Question 4

Queen’s University Belfast

Answer 4

More global connections - media, ideas, people, money

Makes engineers, lawyers, medics with high qualifications - go into Belfast Royal Hospital — migrant skills

Question 5

Industry

Answer 5

Heavy industry closed - Harland and Woolf (competition with Japanese/South Korean)
Refocus on tertiary/quaternary - not in Belfast
Engineering R&D (Queen’s Uni)

Question 6

Tensions

Answer 6

Between Protestant and Catholic - >1600 killed

USA linked to arming IRA - mediation by President Clinton

Question 7

Population

Answer 7

Population growth from industrial revolution
Inner city population fallen - elderly, students, single young
51:49 Catholic/Protestant

Question 8

Diversity

Answer 8

6.6% ethnic minority

Somali/Pakistani in Belfast