Georgian Dublin: The Forces That Shaped the City - Hardcover

Grada, Diarmuid O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782051473 ISBN 13: 9781782051473

Verlag: Cork University Press, 2015

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Reseña del editor:

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 transformed into that of the Irish capital. This book explains how Dublin's adjustment to the new reality gave rise to widespread civil unrest and how the official reaction to the turmoil took on aspects of a crusade. Most of these responses failed and, in reality, there were periods when the city was running out of control. Diarmuid O Grada draws on a wide range of sources, including newspapers and parish records that had previously been neglected. His own career as a town planner has given him an understanding of urban impacts in terms of time and space.Georgian Dublin explains the processes at work and sets them within the wider context, comparing Dublin's successes and failures with events in other European cities.

Biografía del autor:

Diarmuid O Grada is a planning consultant and occasional lecturer in planning at University College Dublin.

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• Verlag: Cork University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782051473
• ISBN 13: 9781782051473
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 404