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Dublin, 1745-1920 - Hospitals, Spectacle and Vice (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Dublin, 1745-1920 - Hospitals, Spectacle and Vice (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: The Making of Dublin
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This innovative book interprets architectural spaces in the light
of the underlying tensions between 18th-century Dublin as a
fashionable resort and the attempts by the authorities to deal with
some of the results of its apparent profligacy. These include the
creation of new institutions as well as other measures designed to
remove ugly realities from the street and purify urban space. Based
mainly on 18th- and 19th-century archival material from the Rotunda
Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for
Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dublin
as an ideal Protestant city by investigating the hidden world
behind its wide streets and magnificent Georgian facades. The
decision to establish the British Isles first maternity hospital on
the northern edge of Sackville Street (today s O Connell Street)
was grounded in a series of imperatives where obstetrics and
medicine were only part of the overall story. The adjacent Pleasure
Gardens, created ostensibly to provide funds for the hospital,
introduced new types of social engagement and an increase of
commodified forms of entertainment to the city. The Gardens,
characterised by acts of spectacle and display, soon acquired an
additional reputation as a site of sexual adventure and louche
behaviour, one which ultimately would be extended to the city.
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