Building Healthy Homes

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, 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

Archives of the Tholsel Court Dublin

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Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, although fragmentary in nature, the surviving archives...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard and Bridget McCormack, editors

The politics of Dublin corporation, 1840-1900

From reform to expansion

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Dublin Corporation, the city’s council, was an ancient and prestigious body. In 1840 its system of voting was reformed to allow for more representation by Catholics and...
Author/Editor: James H. Murphy

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

Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising

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The Easter Rising mostly took place in Ireland’s capital city and directly impacted on Dublin City Council. Some fighting occurred in sites belonging to the council, including City...
Author/Editor: John Gibney, editor

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

Dublin docklands reinvented

The post-industrial regeneration of a European city quarter

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Over the last twenty years, the redevelopment of the docklands has radically altered the physical fabric and social structure of a large part of Dublin City both...
Author/Editor: Niamh Moore