Metal Man Tower

Westtown, Co. Waterford By Brendan Wright   Tragedy at sea in the early nineteenth century brought about a defining feature of the County Waterford coastline. On the morning of 30 January 1816, HMS Sea Horse, carrying members of the 2nd Battalion, 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot, hit a storm as she sailed from Ramsgate … Read more

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley Clair McDonald, The eighteenth-century landscape of Stradbally Hall, Co. Laois (Four Courts Press, €8.95 pb, 70pp, ISBN 9781846826467) Terence Dooley, Castle Hyde: the changing fortunes of an Irish country house (Four Courts Press,€8.95 pb, 64pp, ISBN 9781846826436) Susan Marie Martin, The shawlies: Cork’s women street traders and the ‘merchant city’, 1901–50 (Four … Read more

Dublin’s bourgeois homes: building the Victoriansuburbs, 1850–1901

SUSAN GALAVAN Routledge £95 ISBN 9781472471727 Reviewed by Ellen Rowley Ellen Rowley lectures in the School of Architecture, University College Dublin. Dublin’s bourgeoishomes by architect-turned-historian Susan Galavan manages to bring something new and important to the already packed bookshelves on Dublin history. Because architecture, and specifically the more everyday architecture of housing, is the language … Read more