Georgian Dublin

by O'Brien, Gillian

• ISBN13: 9781846821226
• ISBN10: 1846821223
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-29
• Publisher: Four Courts Pr Ltd

Summary

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

List of Illustrations
Introduction	p. 15
'What can possess you to go to Ireland?: visitors' perceptions of Dublin, 1800-30	p. 17
'An honourable station in respect or commerce, as well as constitutional liberty': retailing, consumption and economic nationalism in Dublin, 1720-85	p. 30
Public space for display and promenade in Georgian Dublin	p. 45
Mobility and mayors: merchant utilization of the position of lord mayor, 1760-1800	p. 55
The Volunteers of Dublin 1778-84: a short study of urban volunteering	p. 68
'By no means relished by the gentlemen of the bar': King's Inns moves to Constitution Hill	p. 78
Merchants and esquires: special juries in Dublin, 1725-1833	p. 97
'The appearance of a continued city': Dublin's Georgian suburbia	p. 110
The business of being a goldsmith in eighteenth-century Dublin	p. 127
Dublin in fiction of the later eighteenth century	p. 135
'Beauties and defects': Maria Edgeworth's representations of Georgian Dublin	p. 145
Views of Georgian Dublin: perspectives of the city	p. 156
Some commercial and other sources for the Edward Worth Library (1733)	p. 165
'The most expensive literary publication ever printed in Ireland': James Moore and the publication of the Encylopaedia Britannica in Ireland, 1790-1800	p. 175
A comparison of the experiences of Dublin city and Limerick city during the cholera epidemic of 1832	p. 188
Index	p. 197
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