Nathaniel Clements (1705–77)

Nathaniel Clements

Government and the governing elite in Ireland, 1725–75

Anthony Malcomson

Nathaniel Clements (1705–77), treasury official, politician, Dublin property developer, amateur architect, failed banker and leader of fashion, was the fifth so…

The eighteenth-century Dublin town house

Form, function and finance

Christine Casey, editor

In the 18th century Dublin grew spectacularly; in the last quarter of a century, understanding of that growth has increased enormously. This book brings togethe…

Georgian Dublin

Gillian O'Brien & Finola O'Kane editors

This collection looks at the less obvious remnants of Dublin’s Georgian past; the literature, the publishing industry, the clothes, the music and the hobbies as…

John Foster (1740–1828)

The politics of improvement and prosperity

Anthony Malcomson

John Foster was the last (1785–1800) speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the most important opponent of the Act of Union which extinguished both his offic…

Portraits of the city

Dublin and the wider world

Gillian O'Brien & Finola O'Kane, editors

The book places Dublin at the centre of a discussion about the significance of the historic urban landscape. Bringing together experts in art history, architect…

Virtues of a wicked earl

The life and legend of William Sydney Clements, 3rd earl of Leitrim, 1806–78

Anthony Malcomson

On 2 April 1878, the 3rd earl of Leitrim was brutally murdered on a public road on the edge of his estate in Co. Donegal. The identity of the killers and their …

The Georgian Squares of Dublin

An architectural history

Dublin City Council

Dublin's Georgian squares are 18th-century architectural gems and this is the first publication to examine each of them in detail. Essays by conservation archit…