Modern Dublin - Urban Change and the Irish Past, 1957-1973

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: Erika Hanna, Erika (Chancellor's Fellow in History Hanna, Erika (Chancellor''s Fellow in History Hanna, Hanna Erika
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2013
• EAN: 9780199680450
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968045-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Ireland, British & Irish history, Public Administration, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Human Geography