Balmoral Cemetery is a small cemetery in the heart of Belfast, yet those buried within its walls played a huge role in shaping the city. 

Tom Hartley, leading authority on the graveyard, tells the stories of the people buried here, those academics, scientists, politicians and the political activists who exemplified the drive and industry of nineteenth-centre Belfast - people such as actor and philosopher Joseph John Murphy, scientist and agriculturist John Frederick Hodges, and suffragist and temperance advocate Isabella Tod.

Through these stories- and those ministers such as Revd Henry Cooke and Revd Hugh Hanna, both buried in Balmoral - Hartley uncovers the dynamic history of Presbyterianism: the meeting houses, congregations and schools, many of which were woven into the fabric of Belfast but have since disappeared 

With over two hundred photographs, this is an invaluable guide to Belfast and its people, and the perfect addition to the Written in Stone series.