Dublin's history

Dublin, 1950–1970

Houses, flats and high rise

Joseph Brady

Housing occupies more land than any other urban use and it helps define the character of any city. Dublin continued to expand its footprint during the 1950s and…

The Easter Proclamation 1916

A comparative analysis

Liam de Paor

With an essay by W.J. Mc Cormack

The words of the Proclamation were put together by P.H. Pearse and revised by James Connolly and Thomas MacDonagh. The documen…

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…

More than concrete blocks, vol. I

Dublin City's twentieth-century buildings and their stories: 1900–1940

Ellen Rowley, editor

More than Concrete Blocks: Dublin City’s twentieth-century buildings is a three-volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and wr…

The Dublin Civic Portrait Collection

Patronage, politics and patriotism, 1603–2013

Mary Clark

Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017

Beginning in the early 17th century and continuing to the present day, the city of Dubli…

Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising

John Gibney, editor

The Easter Rising mostly took place in Ireland’s capital city and directly impacted on Dublin City Council. Some fighting occurred in sites belonging to the cou…

The Rivers Dodder and Poddle

Mills, storms, droughts and the public water supply

Don McEntee & Michael Corcoran

The Rivers Dodder and Poddle is the first in a new series of books issued by Dublin City Council to explore the engineering history and heritage of the city. Th…

The Three Castles of Dublin

An eclectic history of Dublin through the evolution of the city's Coat of Arms

Michael English

The Three Castles have been the symbol of Dublin since 1230AD, when they first appeared on a city seal as three towers situated around one of the fortified gate…

Richmond Barracks 1916

“We were there” – 77 women of the Easter Rising

Mary McAuliffe & Liz Gillis

‘Not the least of the betrayals following the 1916 Rising was the way in which the women who took part in it were subsequently written out of the chronicles. Th…

Medieval Dublin XV

Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2013

Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains reports on a number of important archaeological excavations in the Dublin area in recent years, including: Claire Walsh’s discovery of the …

Exercise of authority

Surveyor Thomas Owen and the paving, cleansing and lighting of Georgian Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

The Dublin Paving Board (founded 1744) was a controversial organization that attempted to bring order to Dublin’s streets during the late eighteenth century. Gr…

The Mansion House, Dublin

300 years of history and hospitality

Mary Clark, editor

Dublin’s Mansion House is the only mayoral residence in Ireland and is older than any surviving in Great Britain. Originally the town house of merchant and prop…