The Irish Civil War and Society
The Irish Civil War and Society

Author: G. Foster

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-18

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1137425709

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The Irish Civil War and Society sheds new light on the social currents shaping the Irish Civil War, from the 'politics of respectability' behind animosities and discourses; to the intersection of social conflicts with political violence; to the social dimensions of the war's messy aftermath.

Georgian Dublin
Georgian Dublin

Author: Gillian O'Brien

Publisher: Four Courts Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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This collection looks at the less obvious remnants of Dublin's Georgian past - the literature, the publishing industry, the clothes, the music and the hobbies associated with this period. The contributors are: Gillian O'Brien (St Patrick's College, DCU) Dublin in the late Georgian period; Sarah Foster (Crawford College) Consumption and economic nationalism in Dublin, 1720-85; Vandra Costello (UCD) Recreation in Georgian Dublin; Lisa Marie Griffith (TCD) The position of lord mayor, 1760-1800; Colum Kenny (DCU) King's Inns' move to Constitution Hill; Niamh Howlin (UCD) Special juries in Dublin, 1725-1833; Finola O'Kane (UCD) Dublin's Georgian suburbia; Alison Fitzgerald (UCD) Goldsmiths in 18th-century Dublin; Aileen Douglas (TCD) Dublin in fiction of the later 18th century; Sharon Murphy (TCD) Maria Edgeworth's representations of Georgian Dublin; Julie Anne Stevens (St Patrick's, DCU) Perspectives of Georgian Dublin; W.J. McCormack (Worth Library) Sources for the library of Edward Worth; Johanna Archbold (TCD) James Moore and the publication of the Encylopaedia Britannica, 1790-1800; Andreas Boldt (NUIM) The Graves family; Michelle Mangan, Dublin and Limerick during the 1832 cholera epidemic.