Nick Maxwell Author David Dickson in conversation with Tommy Graham (editor, History Ireland) The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization. A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and … Read more
On 25 May 1921, Dublin’s Custom House, headquarters of the Local Government Board of Ireland, was occupied and then burnt in an operation involving over 100 IRA volunteers. It has long been regarded as a propaganda coup but a military disaster for the IRA. But are either of these assumptions correct? Did it disrupt British … Read more
Today James Gandon’s neoclassical masterpiece is one of the most recognizable and well-regarded buildings in Dublin. Its completion in 1791 marked yet another instalment in the movement of the axis of the Georgian city eastwards. Yet over the ten years of its construction it was regarded as a ‘white elephant’, built in what was then … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Seán Mac Eoin, commander of the Longford ‘flying column’, one of the IRA’s most effective, was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison in March 1921 and thereafter Michael Collins devised several attempts to free him. The first was when Collins had a friendly priest see Mac Eoin, and in the middle of … Read more
NOEL BRADY and SANDRA O’CONNELL (eds) O’Brien Press/Royal Institute for Architects in Ireland €29.99 ISBN 9781788491679 Reviewed by Joseph Brady Joseph Brady is Adjunct Associate Professor of Geography at University College Dublin. Dublin by design: architecture and the city is a very welcome addition to studies of the development of the city. Including the introduction … Read more