The tenement dwellers of Church Street, Dublin, 1911

Dublin through space & time

Anngret Simms & Joseph Brady, editors

This is the first volume in a series that deals with the planning and development of Dublin from the earliest times to the present day. The focus is on the buil…

Dublin, 1910–1940

Shaping the city and suburbs

Ruth McManus

Between 1910 and 1940 Dublin's suburbs grew considerably. For the first time, planned suburbanization of the working classes became a stated policy, with new an…

Grave Matters

Death and dying in Dublin, 1500 to the present

Lisa Marie Griffith & Ciarán Wallace, editors

Grave Matters examines the universal subject of death – looking at the particular experience of death, burial and commemoration in Dublin since the sixteenth ce…

Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

The 'moral economy' and the Irish crowd

James Kelly

Food rioting, one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest internationally, was practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early …

Sending out Ireland's poor

Assisted emigration to North America in the nineteenth-century

Gerard Moran

Between 1800 and 1914 over eight million people emigrated from Ireland. While the majority paid their own passage or had the fares paid by relations and friends…