Day Place

'The Most Respectable Locality in Tralee'

Laurence Jones

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781801511575
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

This book studies the occupants of Day Place, a terrace of ten Georgian townhouses in Tralee, Co. Kerry, over a 100-year period. The street was the most fashionable and sought-after address in the town and residents of the terrace were among the wealthiest and most influential individuals in the area. The economic and political transformation of Tralee – and Ireland – from 1830 to 1930 was reflected in the changing makeup of the local elite living in Day Place. The tenancy of the houses and the reins of government passed from a largely Protestant clique to a confident Catholic and nationalist middle class of entrepreneurs and professionals. This volume brings some of these colourful characters to life, uncovering their activities and attitudes and painting a picture of the rapidly changing religious and political landscape in which they lived.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Editor's note
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. ‘Many of the dealers are wealthy’
• 2. Day Place: religious affiliation and conflict
• 3. From ‘Tory power’ to the ‘friends of the people’
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Notes