Title & Author:

Dublin : through space and time, c. 900-1900 / Joseph Brady & Anngret Simms, editors.

Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts, ©2001.

Description:

393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

The making of Dublin city ; 1

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index.
Origins and Early Growth / Anngret Simms -- Viking-age Dublin: the historical background -- The physical environment of medieval Dublin -- The layout of Viking-age Dublin: the longphort at Ath Cliath -- The Viking stronghold-settlement: Dun Dublinn -- Hiberno-Norse Dublin -- Anglo-Norman Dublin: institutional changes -- The layout of medieval Dublin -- Extra-mural development in medieval Dublin -- Religious houses as urban developers -- Dublin in the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century -- Designing the Capital City: Dublin, c. 1660-1810 / Edel Sheridan -- The capital city -- Dublin c.1660-1760: Corporations are the creatures of the monarchy -- Street trading and traffic problems in Restoration Dublin -- New departures from the old town: St Stephen's Green and Smithfield -- Looking to the river: early quay initiatives -- Developments on private estates, 1729-1810: spacious and regular streets -- The Gardiner/Mountjoy estate -- The Fitzwilliam/Pembroke estate -- The Wide Streets -- Commission, 1758-1802: order, uniformity and convenience -- Origins of the Wide Streets Commission -- The members of the commission -- A new vision of the city -- The executive powers of the commissioners -- Activities and achievements, 1757-1802 -- Other projects -- Living in the Capital City: Dublin in the Eighteenth Century / Edel Sheridan -- Social control through urban form -- Patterns of social topography -- The eighteenth-century heritage -- Dublin in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction.

Summary:

"This book is the first of a mini-series on the development of Dublin from the earliest times. From both geographical and historical perspectives, it tries to unravel and explain the many processes that have interacted to produce the city as we know it today." "Dublin through space and time sets the scene for later books. It begins with the early city, piecing together research from geography (especially evidence from maps, the quintessential geographical tool), archaeology and history. As the architecture of the period shows so vividly, Dublin flowered in the eighteenth century; the following sections look at how this was achieved and by whom; much information is analysed and mapped for the first time and a wealth of fascinating detail is revealed. The nineteenth century was a tale of two cities: the better off moved to suburbs beyond the canals, leaving social problems behind in the inner city." "It was not all gloom. For the better off, Dublin was a bright and vibrant city. The final two sections of the book offer a reconstruction of Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century, looking at how it might have been seen and experienced by the people of the day." "The book is lavishly illustrated with maps, diagrams and photographs."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1851826106
9781851826100
1851826416 (pbk.)
9781851826414 (pbk.)

Subject:

Geschichte
Dublin (Ireland) History.
Dublin (Ireland) Civilization.
Ireland Dublin.
Dublin

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Brady, Joseph.
Simms, Anngret.
Making of Dublin city ; 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246988
Call No.: BIB 176540
Status: Available