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Belfast City Hall
註釋"Opened to an admiring public on 1 August 1906 as 'a monument to the character of the people of Belfast and of the time in which it was reared', Belfast City Hall, with its lavish architecture, unmistakable silhouette and stormy demonstrations, has come to be regarded as the physical and symbolic heart of the city." "Initially conceived as a gesture of Victorian enterprise and faith in the future, City Hall rapidly became a stage for the social and political dramas of Ulster and of Ireland in microcosm - from the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant in 1912 to the 1995 visit of former US president Bill Clinton to aid the Peace Process. It is also the city's venue for civic celebration on a private and public scale, from small weddings - becoming in December 2005 the first venue in the United Kingdom to hold civic partnership ceremonies - to the VE day and millennium festivities." "One hundred years later this meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated hardback brings to life the varied, complex and often controversial history of an extraordinary building and an extraordinary century."--BOOK JACKET.