Dublin Interest

A field guide to the monuments of County Dublin. From megalithic tombs to stone circles, barrows and standing stones, Dublin has a rich historical heritage standing proud in its midst....

This book explains how Dublin - Ireland - got into its current transport mess and shows that its consequences are worse than we think. As a case study, it is...

Dublin has many histories: for a thousand years a modest urban settlement on the quiet waters of the Irish Sea, for the last four hundred it has experienced great -...

For nearly thirty years, Kevin C. Kearns has been collecting the memories and recollections of Dubliners on tape. His previous books have focused on specific themes such as tenements and...

Rathgar may well be the most fascinating area of Dublin. Its red-brick Georgian and Victorian terraces, the fruits of the architectural experimentation of the nineteenth century, are home to some...

Following the murder of Thomas a Becket, King Henry II came to Ireland. He decreed that an abbey be founded close to the present-day St Catherine's church, Thomas Street, Dublin,...

From the 1950s to the 1990s, John Walsh ran his photography business out of a small shop on 50 Francis Street in inner city Dublin. For over forty years, he...

Dublin is the perfect haunted city. Its narrow cobbled streets conceal layers of interwoven history and folklore, left behind by generations of Viking, Norman and Irish inhabitants.Walking through the streets...

Dublin has always been a city of paradoxes, opposites and conflicts. Its population expanded rapidly throughout the nineteenth century, despite the great famine and emigration to England, America and elsewhere....

To the vast majority of people, when shipbuilding in Ireland is mentioned, they think only of Belfast, the Harland & Wolff shipyard and the tragic maiden voyage of the Titanic...

While Dublin is an ancient city, its buildings are rarely more than two centuries old and the vast majority are more recent. There are, of course, exceptions - Two Cathedrals,...

Jean has painted scenes from all corners of Ireland, but her signature style evolved from architectural impressions of familiar Dublin landmarks and cityscapes - in oil, pen and ink, and...

The Little Book of Stillorgan is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this vibrant suburb of Dublin.This book takes the reader on a journey through Stillorgan...

'A sumptuous production in equal part photograph, illustration and text'Irish Examiner 'Twelve highly readable chapters of the political, social and economic history of Dublin from earliest times to the present,...

Each year, over a million people walk the East and West piers at Dun Laoghaire. Whether it's for a quiet walk, family days out, first dates, weddings, hanging out with...

Ulysses is, among other things, one of the most realistic novels ever written. Commentary on it has often focused on its important place in the history of modernism, its break...

'A sumptuous production in equal part photograph, illustration and text'Irish Examiner 'Twelve highly readable chapters of the political, social and economic history of Dublin from earliest times to the present,...