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The Lilliput Press is proud to reissue this iconic view of
Dublin’s northside docks area in the 1980s, which comprises Ronan
Sheehan’s text and over 50 black and white photographs by Brendan
Walsh. Widely regarded as one of the finest studies of Dublin
during this period, The Heart Of The City was taught in UCD and
Trinity and to students of Urban Folklore. This edition features a
revised introduction by Sheriff Street-born writer and actor Peter
Sheridan. Dublin film-director John Carney (Bachelor’s Walk,
Once, Begin Again) writes a new foreword. More poignant still in
the aftermath of The Celtic Tiger, this is a remarkable portrait of
a people and city so badly affected by the catastrophic collapse of
employment on the docks in the 1960s and by irresponsible urban
planning
While an anarchist group blows up the equestrian statue of General
Gough in Dublin's Phoenix Park during the 1950s, the narrator
recalls his mother's Kiplingesque tales of childhood in India,
recreating the atmosphere and events of the Irish abroad in the
service of the British Empire. The life of John Henry Foley
(1818-1874), Queen Victoria's favourite sculptor, is interwoven
with those of some of his principal subjects, Hardinge, Montgomery,
Outram and Lawrence, Foyle College boys from Derry, who formed a
remarkable constellation of soldier-administrators in northern
India during the nineteenth century. The powerful, suggestive
sketches of these Irishmen speak for generations gone. Engagements,
atrocities and counter-atrocities are colourfully drawn in a
language of heroism that conveys that turbulent, chaotic thing that
was Britain's empire in Asia. Gough himself was a hero of the
Peninsular War, wheeled out in the 1840s to pursue the punitive
Opium War in China and to conquer the Punjab. Ronan Sheehan has
created a remarkable imaginative work through these related
narratives, shifting between nineteenth-century set-pieces and
modern-day Ireland. The statue from which the book derives its
name, the vulnerable and defiant figure of Asia below subverting
Albert above in the Hyde Park memorial, expresses the conflicted
loyalties at the heart of Foley's finest monuments. By exploring
these fractured identities and interrogating the past, Foley's Asia
enriches our understanding of this sculpted world.
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