Lansdowne FC

Sport and leisure in the Irish and British country house

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Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that ‘Country life was entirely organized to give nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.’ Throughout Ireland and Britain the country house...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Soccer and Society in Dublin

A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital

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This book is the first full-length assessment of the history of soccer in Dublin and the game’s role within society in the city. It examines the sport's...
Author/Editor: Conor Curran

Dublin, 1745–1922

Hospitals, spectacle & vice

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Based on material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dublin as an ideal Protestant...
Author/Editor: Gary A. Boyd

Dublin, 1910–1940

Shaping the city and suburbs

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Between 1910 and 1940 Dublin's suburbs grew considerably. For the first time, planned suburbanization of the working classes became a stated policy, with new and idealistic schemes such...
Author/Editor: Ruth McManus

Dublin, 1930–1950

The emergence of the modern city

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Using a great variety of source materials, and including a large number of photographs and other images, this book builds a picture of Dublin between 1930 and...
Author/Editor: Joseph Brady

Dublin, 1950–1970

Houses, flats and high rise

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Housing occupies more land than any other urban use and it helps define the character of any city. Dublin continued to expand its footprint during the 1950s...
Author/Editor: Joseph Brady

Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s

Cars, shops and suburbs

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After the relative gloom of the 1950s, there was a rapid economic pick-up in the early 1960s. Car ownership increased as standards of living improved and Dublin,...
Author/Editor: Joseph Brady

Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916

Anzacs and the Rising

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Little has been written on Trinity College’s role in Easter Week 1916 as a ‘loyal nucleus’ dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to rebel headquarters in...
Author/Editor: Rory Sweetman

Dublin from 1970 to 1990

The City Transformed

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Dublin’s footprint grew steadily during the 1970s with housing transforming the landscape of the west of the city, especially in Tallaght, Clondalkin and Blanchardstown. It was a time...
Author/Editor: Joseph Brady

Building Healthy Homes

Dublin Corporation's first housing schemes, 1880-1925

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During the twentieth century, Dublin Corporation transformed the urban landscape of Dublin. Its many housing developments sought to end a housing and public health crisis of immense proportions,...
Author/Editor: Joseph Brady & Ruth McManus

Vindicating Dublin

The story behind the controversial dissolution of Dublin Corporation in 1924

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The strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation (the city's municipal government) is brought to light in this absorbing study which captures the mood in...
Author/Editor: Aodh Quinlivan