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Georgian Dublin: The Forces that Shaped the City
Diarmuid O' Gráda
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Description for Georgian Dublin: The Forces that Shaped the City
hardcover. This is a fresh and original account of the most telling era in Dublin's development. Diarmuid O Grada depicts the Georgian city as a place of conflict where sharp divisions arose between the haves and have-nots. His work reveals the causes of this upheaval and its impact on ordinary Dubliners. Num Pages: 404 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 207 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1550.
It is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. However, Diarmuid O Grada now shows us a Dublin quite unlike that depicted in the conventional histories of grand red-brick squares and elegant drawing rooms. Phenomenal population growth was forced on a place where local government, the workshops and the streets themselves had changed little since medieval times. In the course of the century the number of Dubliners trebled and the city was quite unprepared for the urgent challenge of feeding and housing so many people. In addition, Dublin's role as the bastion of an English colony was ... Read more
It is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. However, Diarmuid O Grada now shows us a Dublin quite unlike that depicted in the conventional histories of grand red-brick squares and elegant drawing rooms. Phenomenal population growth was forced on a place where local government, the workshops and the streets themselves had changed little since medieval times. In the course of the century the number of Dubliners trebled and the city was quite unprepared for the urgent challenge of feeding and housing so many people. In addition, Dublin's role as the bastion of an English colony was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cork University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782051473
SKU
9781782051473
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About Diarmuid O' Gráda
Diarmuid O Grada is a planning consultant and occasional lecturer in planning at University College Dublin.
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