Dublin's history

The Mansion House and the Irish Revolution

Teach an Ardmheara agus Réabhlóid na hÉireann, 1912–1923

Mícheál Mac Donncha

Dublin's Mansion House has been a centre of political and social life for the past 300 years. In the revolutionary years 1912–1923 it was the scene of many key …

Medieval Dublin XVII

Seán Duffy, editor

Some of the most important recent historical research on the subject of Dublin city and county in the Middle Ages is gathered together in this volume, including…

Government, war and society in medieval Ireland

Essays by Edmund Curtis, A.J. Otway-Ruthven and James Lydon

Peter Crooks, editor

In the late twelfth century, Ireland was absorbed into the dominions of the kings of England. This transformed the social and political life of the island, with…

More than concrete blocks: vol. II, 1940–72

Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories

Ellen Rowley, editor

More than Concrete Blocks: Dublin City’s twentieth-century buildings is a three-volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and wr…

The Goldsmiths of Dublin

Six centuries of achievement

Douglas Bennett

The history of Dublin’s goldsmiths is described in this important book, which charts the history of the Dublin Company of Goldsmiths from the Middle Ages to the…

The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

Davis Coakley & Mary Coakley

The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its site. Just under thirty years later a foundling hos…

The life and career of Archbishop Richard Whately

Ireland, religion and reform

Ciara Boylan

When Richard Whately (1787–1863) was appointed as Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin in 1831, his liberalism made him a highly controversial figure within h…

Medieval Dublin XVI

Proceedings of Clontarf 1014–2014: national conference marking the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf

Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Trinity College Dublin in April 2014 marking the millennium of the battle of Clontarf, one of the l…

Culture, politics and local government in Fingal, 1891–1914

Declan Brady

The period from the death of Parnell to the Home Rule crisis is popularly thought to be somewhat stagnant posited between more momentous events. The fracturing …

The tenement dwellers of Church Street, Dublin, 1911

Janet Moody

This publication aims to re-constitute a micro-community of 132 families living in Church Street in the heart of the worst slums in Dublin, using the 1911 censu…

Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s

Cars, shops and suburbs

Joseph Brady

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…

The Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin

Michael English

Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge is one of the symbols of the city. Opened on 19 May 1816, the first dedicated footbridge over the river Liffey, it was also the first i…