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The first Irish cities : an eighteenth-century transformation / David Dickson.

By: Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021Description: xiv, 336 pp., 24 pp. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, tables ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780300229462 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 941.507
Contents:
Introduction -- The walls come down -- Peopling the cities -- The keys of the kingdom -- Northern turn -- Workshop, warehouse and the primacy of Dublin -- Together and apart -- Projects and projections -- Food for thought -- Order and disorder -- The shutting of the gates -- Partings
Summary: The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account reveals how the country’s cities were distinctive and—through the Irish diaspora—influential beyond Ireland’s shores. -- Publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: New Acquisitions Summer 2021
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Loanable Book Library Irish Collection 941.507 DIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000437519
Loanable Book Library Irish Reserve 941.507 DIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000437518

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Introduction -- The walls come down -- Peopling the cities -- The keys of the kingdom -- Northern turn -- Workshop, warehouse and the primacy of Dublin -- Together and apart -- Projects and projections -- Food for thought -- Order and disorder -- The shutting of the gates -- Partings

The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization

A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account reveals how the country’s cities were distinctive and—through the Irish diaspora—influential beyond Ireland’s shores.

-- Publisher.

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