Reinventing Modern Dublin

by Whelan, Yvonne

• ISBN13: 9781900621861
• ISBN10: 190062186X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ College Dublin Pr

Summary

Takes the reader from the contested iconography of Dublin as it evolved in the early part of the 20th century before Independence through To The contemporary plans For The millennium spire on O'Connell Street. Yvonne Whelan, Lecturer at the Academy f

Author Biography

Yvonne Whelan is a Lecturer in Cultural Geography at the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster.

Table of Contents

List of plates
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: setting the context	p. 1
Unravelling the cultural geographies of landscape
Interrogating the cultural landscape	p. 11
City of empire, site of resistance: the iconography of Dublin before independence
Representing empire: the monumental legacy of monarchy and military	p. 33
Contested identities and the monumental landscape	p. 53
Naming Dublin: imperial power, nationalist resistance	p. 94
A capital once again: reinventing Dublin after independence
Symbolising the state: planning, power and the architecture of nationhood	p. 115
Scripting national memory: the power of public monuments	p. 157
Removing icons of empire: de-commemoration and the cultural landscape	p. 192
Street naming and nation building in Dublin	p. 214
The power of space: towards a postmodern iconography	p. 233
Notes	p. 246
Bibliography	p. 280
Index	p. 297
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