Georgian Dublin
Georgian Dublin It is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. Phenomenal population growth was forced on a place where local government, the workshops and the streets…
Specifikacia Georgian Dublin
Georgian Dublin
It is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. Phenomenal population growth was forced on a place where local government, the workshops and the streets themselves had changed little since medieval times. Here, Diarmuid O Grada shows us a Dublin quite unlike that depicted in the conventional histories of grand red-brick squares and elegant drawing rooms.
Most of these responses failed and, in reality, there were periods when the city was running out of control. In the course of the century the number of Dubliners trebled and the city was quite unprepared for the urgent challenge of feeding and housing so many people.This book explains how Dublin's adjustment to the new reality gave rise to widespread civil unrest and how the official reaction to the turmoil took on aspects of a crusade. The author draws on a wide range of sources,