Four Roads to Dublin: The History of Ranelagh, Rathmines and Leeson Street - Hardcover

Kelly, Deirdre

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ISBN 10: 0862784239 ISBN 13: 9780862784232

Verlag: O'Brien Press Ltd, 1996

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Signed by the Author, Fine copy but has a biro mark on rear end paper. DJ very good, in mylar

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Four Roads to Dublin spans seven hundred years in the history of Rathmines, Ranelagh and Leeson Street from the time of the medieval city to its present role as a dynamic, living, distinctive inner suburb of Dublin.

In ancient times, four roads led into Dublin from the south-west. What is now Rathmines and Ranelagh was a dangerous no-man's land between the walled city and the Wicklow mountains. Many a bloody battle was fought there between the native Irish, banished to the mountains, and the foreigners who has usurped their lands. The famous 'Battle of Rathmines' between Cromwellian forces and Royalists was fought where now stand some of the finest late Georgian and Victorian streets.

Fear of the mountain enemy inhibited suburban settlement until the mid-eighteenth century when the tiny villages of Rathmines, Cullenswood and Ranelagh began to develop. In 1947 Rathmines Township was formed and for the next century intense development created one of the most attractive and exciting areas, socially and architecturally, in Dublin. Famous writers and artists, including Joyce, AE Russell, Sarah Purser, Jack Yeats, Catherine Tynan, Frank O'Connor and Walter Osborne lived there, along with eminent scientists, musicians and scholars.

The area boasted many fine houses and castles as well as the Ranelagh Gardens from where Richard Crosbie made his famous balloon ascent.

Though originally a strongly unionist area, it was also home to many Fenians and Young Irelanders. Four of the signatories of the 1916 Ploclamation, among them Padraic Pearse, marched out from Ranelagh on that historic Easter Monday, never to return.

This book draws together the many facets of the area between the four roads - its streets, its style, the people who lived there, the part it played in Irish history. Years of research, coupled with a lifelong enthusiasm for her native area, make Deirdre Kelly's account a lively, comprehensive and unique story of city life and history.

Illustrated with maps, historical and contemporary photographs.

Biografía del autor

Deirdre Kelly was a radical environmental activist and a founder member of the Living City Group. She was involved with many campaigns to save Dublin's architectural heritage.

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• Verlag: O'Brien Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0862784239
• ISBN 13: 9780862784232
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256