Last comes the economic rea: and this is the most difficult of For the centre-of the controlling factor in "Northern. Ireland" is Belfast, and Belfast is confronted by economic problems quite different from those which confront the rest of the country—different from those, even, which confront all other parts of "Northern Ireland". Belfast is like an industrial island in. Ireland, unconnected with the rest of the Tt depends mainly on three dustries: the ship-building industry, the linen industry, and the ropemaking industry. Practically—all the raw materials for these industries come in from. abroad; and
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