Georgian Dublin

Gillian O'Brien, Finola O'Kane

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846829307
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Architecture

This collection looks at the less obvious remnants of Dublin's Georgian past - the literature, the publishing industry, the clothes, the music and the hobbies associated with this period. The contributors are: Gillian O'Brien (St Patrick's College, DCU) Dublin in the late Georgian period; Sarah Foster (Crawford College) Consumption and economic nationalism in Dublin, 1720-85; Vandra Costello (UCD) Recreation in Georgian Dublin; Lisa Marie Griffith (TCD) The position of lord mayor, 1760-1800; Colum Kenny (DCU) King's Inns' move to Constitution Hill; Niamh Howlin (UCD) Special juries in Dublin, 1725-1833; Finola O'Kane (UCD) Dublin's Georgian suburbia; Alison Fitzgerald (UCD) Goldsmiths in 18th-century Dublin; Aileen Douglas (TCD) Dublin in fiction of the later 18th century; Sharon Murphy (TCD) Maria Edgeworth's representations of Georgian Dublin; Julie Anne Stevens (St Patrick's, DCU) Perspectives of Georgian Dublin; W.J. McCormack (Worth Library) Sources for the library of Edward Worth; Johanna Archbold (TCD) James Moore and the publication of the Encylopaedia Britannica, 1790-1800; Andreas Boldt (NUIM) The Graves family; Michelle Mangan, Dublin and Limerick during the 1832 cholera epidemic.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of abbreviations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. ‘What can possess you to go to Ireland?’: visitors’ perceptions of Dublin, 1800-30
• 2. ‘An honourable station in respect of commerce, as well as constitutional liverty’: retailing, consumption and economic nationalism in Dublin, 1720-85
• 3. Public space for display and promenade in Georgian Dublin
• 4. Mobility and mayors: merchant utilixation of the position of lord mayor, 1760-1800
• 5. ‘The Volunteers of Dublin 1778-84: a short study of urban volunteering
• 6. ‘By no means relished by the gentlemen of the bar’: King’s Inns moves to Constitution Hill
• 7. Merchants and esquires: special juries in Dublin, 1725-1833
• 8. ‘The appearance of a continued city’: Dublin’s Georgian suburbia
• 9. The business of being a goldsmith in eighteenth-century Dublin
• 10. Dublin in fiction of the later eighteenth century
• 11. ‘Beauties and defects’: Maria Edgeworth’s representations of Georgian Dublin
• 12. Views of Georgian Dublin: perspectives of the city
• 13. Some commercial and other sources for the Edward Worth Library (1733)
• 14. ‘The most extensive literary publication ever printed in Ireland’: James Moore and the publication of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in Ireland, 1790-1800
• 15. A comparison of the experiences of Dublin city and Limerick city during the cholera epidemic of 1832
• Appendix
• Untitled