Dublin's history

Dublin from 1970 to 1990

The City Transformed

Joseph Brady

Dublin’s footprint grew steadily during the 1970s with housing transforming the landscape of the west of the city, especially in Tallaght, Clondalkin and Blanch…

Sarah Cecilia Harrison

Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor

Margarita Cappock

Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) was one of Dublin’s finest portrait painters but she also immersed herself in the political and social fabric of Dublin life,…

The early residential buildings of Trinity College Dublin

Architecture, financing, people

R.A. Somerville

This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential ranges of the early eighteenth cen…

Plantagenet Ireland

Robin Frame

For more than two centuries after 1199, Ireland was ruled by Plantagenet kings, lineal descendants of Henry II. The island became closely tied to the English cr…

The Historian as Detective

Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie

Terence Dooley, Mary Ann Lyons & Salvador Ryan

This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archa…

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…

Building Healthy Homes

Dublin Corporation's first housing schemes, 1880-1925

Joseph Brady & Ruth McManus

During the twentieth century, Dublin Corporation transformed the urban landscape of Dublin. Its many housing developments sought to end a housing and public hea…

The Dublin Cattle Market's decline, 1955-73

Declan O'Brien

The Dublin Cattle Market was an institution in the Irish livestock sector of the 1950s. Located between Prussia Street and the North Circular Road, the market s…

Vindicating Dublin

The story behind the controversial dissolution of Dublin Corporation in 1924

Aodh Quinlivan

The strained relationship between the Irish Free State and Dublin Corporation (the city's municipal government) is brought to light in this absorbing study whic…

Medieval Dublin XVIII

Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains a number of important papers on an ecclesiastical theme. Lorcan Harney examines early medieval ecclesiastical enclosures in Dublin and its …

Trinity College Library Dublin

A descriptive catalogue of manuscripts containing Middle English and some Old English

John Scattergood, with Niamh Pattwell & Emma Williams

The world-famous collection of manuscripts in Trinity College Library Dublin largely consists of items which came to the College in 1661 from the library of Arc…

Art O'Brien and Irish Nationalism in London, 1900-25

Dr Mary MacDiarmada

Joint winner of the NUI Publication Prize in Irish History 2023

London-born and reared, Art O’Brien’s journey from wealthy electrical engineer to leader of Iri…