Modern Dublin

Hanna's ability to construct a series of nuanced arguments and sophisticated readings while making sense of what is a complicated and evolving narrative is one of the many strengths of this important book.

Autorentext
Erika Hanna was born in Dublin and grew up in Ireland, Britain, and America. She studied for her BA at the University of Bristol and completed her doctorate on 1960s Dublin at Hertford College, Oxford. She has been appointed Chancellor's Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh.

Klappentext

Provides a new history of the capital of Ireland during the 1960s, examining how an aging eighteenth-century city was rapidly transformed by speculative office construction and suburban development, and exploring how this impacted on the lives of the city's ordinary inhabitants

Inhalt

Introduction: Modern Dublin and the Irish Past ; 1. Chapter One: Planning and the Eighteenth-Century City, 1955-75 ; 2. Georgian Dublin and Modern Architecture, 1950-65 ; 3. Kildare Place and the Irish Georgian Society, 1957-58 ; 4. Modernization and Preservation, 1958-65 ; 5. Housing, Community, and Preservation, 1963-70 ; 6. Material Culture and Social Politics, 1964-73 ; 7. Office Politics, 1965-70 ; Conclusion: The Invention of Georgian Dublin ; Bibliography