Two Capitals

Two Capitals

Author: Peter Clark

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780197262474

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This is a comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the 16th and early 19th centuries.


Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760

Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760

Author: R. Usher

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0230362168

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This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources.


Dublin

Dublin

Author: Christine Casey

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 854

ISBN-13: 9780300109238

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Dublin’s grand eighteenth-century set-pieces: Custom House, Four Courts, Bank of Ireland; are offset by a graceful Georgian cityscape, much of which remains intact. Rich and varied house interiors are also treated in full, many for the first time. The book features civic and commercial Victorian architecture, post-war buildings, and the buildings of a new generation of Irish architects. Two fine Gothic cathedrals remain from the medieval city, the full history of which is traced in an introduction to the volume.


Dublin

Dublin

Author: David Dickson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-11-24

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 0674745043

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Dublin has experienced great—and often astonishing—change in its 1,400 year history. It has been the largest urban center on a deeply contested island since towns first appeared west of the Irish Sea. There have been other contested cities in the European and Mediterranean world, but almost no European capital city, David Dickson maintains, has seen sharper discontinuities and reversals in its history—and these have left their mark on Dublin and its inhabitants. Dublin occupies a unique place in Irish history and the Irish imagination. To chronicle its vast and varied history is to tell the story of Ireland. David Dickson’s magisterial history brings Dublin vividly to life beginning with its medieval incarnation and progressing through the neoclassical eighteenth century, when for some it was the “Naples of the North,” to the Easter Rising that convulsed a war-weary city in 1916, to the bloody civil war that followed the handover of power by Britain, to the urban renewal efforts at the end of the millennium. He illuminates the fate of Dubliners through the centuries—clergymen and officials, merchants and land speculators, publishers and writers, and countless others—who have been shaped by, and who have helped to shape, their city. He reassesses 120 years of Anglo-Irish Union, during which Dublin remained a place where rival creeds and politics struggled for supremacy. A book as rich and diverse as its subject, Dublin reveals the intriguing story behind the making of a capital city.