Dublin City University, 1980–2020

An oral history of University College Galway, 1930–1980

A university in living memory

Jackie Uí Chionna

This book tells the story of University College Galway from 1930 to 1980, through the reminiscences of dozens of people who were there. Interviews were conducte…

The University of Limerick

A history

David A. Fleming

The University of Limerick was the first new university created since the foundation of the state. Its emergence was the result of a long and determined local c…

Culture, politics and local government in Fingal, 1891–1914

Declan Brady

The period from the death of Parnell to the Home Rule crisis is popularly thought to be somewhat stagnant posited between more momentous events. The fracturing …

Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s

Cars, shops and suburbs

Joseph Brady

After the relative gloom of the 1950s, there was a rapid economic pick-up in the early 1960s. Car ownership increased as standards of living improved and Dublin…

The University of Ulster

Genesis and growth

Gerard O'Brien & Peter Roebuck, editors

The essays in this collection examine the history of the University of Ulster and seek to place its experience within the contexts of the national and internati…

Bridges of Dublin

The remarkable story of Dublin's Liffey bridges

Annette Black & Michael B. Barry

A vivid history of Dublin unfolds in this exploration of more than one thousand years of bridges over the river Liffey. From the time of the Vikings and their s…

Dublin docklands reinvented

The post-industrial regeneration of a European city quarter

Niamh Moore

Over the last twenty years, the redevelopment of the docklands has radically altered the physical fabric and social structure of a large part of Dublin City bot…

Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916

Anzacs and the Rising

Rory Sweetman

Little has been written on Trinity College’s role in Easter Week 1916 as a ‘loyal nucleus’ dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to r…