Nick Maxwell 
On 14 November 1901 Elvina T. appeared before the Dublin City sessions charged with child neglect and with being a habitual drunkard. The previous month, a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (SPCC) inspector had visited her family home at Kevin Street to find the children ‘miserably clad’. Some weeks later he found … Read more
Vaughan correctly pointed to the importance of the fact that John George’s father, George Adair, had married into the powerful and influential Trench family. In particular, his interaction with the ruthless land agent William Steuart Trench is thought to have influenced Adair’s outlook on how to deal with recalcitrant tenants. No attention, however, has been … Read more
John George Adair (1823–85) gained notoriety as a cruel landlord because of the Derryveagh evictions carried out on his estate in County Donegal in April 1861. The eviction of 244 people, including many women and children, is regarded as one of the worst excesses of Irish landlordism. Announcing his death, the Derry Journal asserted that … Read more
The term ‘International Style’ was coined after the first International Exhibition of Modern Architecture (1932) in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The style emerged in continental Europe during the late 1920s and early 1930s, epitomised by box-like geometrical architecture unencumbered by ornamentation and usually finished in a gleaming white with large windows and … Read more
While Rutty dates the introduction of granite for construction work in Dublin to the early 1740s, evidence suggests that it was used at least 40 years earlier for some purposes. Clues to its earlier use lie in Rutty’s reference to the use of granite for paving and to its being ‘vulgarly called firestone’. Firestone remained … Read more