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Georgian Dublin - The Forces That Shaped the City (Hardcover)
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Georgian Dublin - The Forces That Shaped the City (Hardcover)
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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.
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