Georgian Dublin: the forces that shaped the city

DIARMUID Ó GRÁDA University College Cork Press €39 ISBN 9781782051473 Reviewed by: Sylvie Kleinman This book is a ‘gorgeous mask’ of sorts. Both front and back covers foretell that it will be (and is) abundantly and beautifully illustrated. They harmoniously convey that well-ingrained feel-good effect of eighteenth-century Dublin as an august Enlightenment metropolis; nothing offends. ... Read more

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