John Rocques Dublin A Guide To The Georgian City

Author : Colm Lennon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904890690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Rocque's Dublin written by Colm Lennon and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the map at the level of individual streets and buildings, revealing particular elements of Rocque's artistic cartography and aspects of Dublin's history.

Author : John Rocque
Publisher : Steve Parish
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Georgian Dublin written by John Rocque and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Dickson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674744446
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dublin written by David Dickson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As rich and diverse as its subject, Dickson’s magisterial history brings 1,400 years of Dublin vividly to life: from its medieval incarnation through the neoclassical eighteenth century, the Easter Rising that convulsed the city in 1916, the bloody civil war following the handover of power by Britain, to end-of-millennium urban renewal efforts.

Author : Andrew Macnair
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686743
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire written by Andrew Macnair and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews. For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the period witnessed several episodes of comprehensive map making. The map which forms the subject of this book followed on from a large number of previous maps of the county but was greatly superior to them in terms of quality and detail. It was published in a variety of forms, in nine sheets with an additional index map, over a period of 60 years. No other maps of Hertfordshire were produced during the rest of the century, but the Board of Ordnance, later the Ordnance Survey, established in the 1790s, began to survey the Hertfordshire area in 1799, publishing the first maps covering the county between 1805 and 1834. The OS came to dominate map making in Britain but, of all the maps of Hertfordshire, that produced by Dury and Andrews was the first to be surveyed at a sufficiently large scale to really allow those dwelling in the county to visualize their own parish, local topography and even their own house, and its place in the wider landscape. The first section examines the context of the map’s production and its place in cartographic history, and describes the creation of a new, digital version of the map which can be accessed online . The second part describes various ways in which this electronic version can be interrogated, in order to throw important new light on Hertfordshire’s landscape and society, both in the middle decades of the eighteenth century when it was produced, and in more remote periods. The attached DVD contains over a dozen maps which have been derived from the digital version, and which illustrate many of the issues discussed in the text, as well as related material which should likewise be useful to students of landscape history, historical geography and local history.

Author : David Dickson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300229461
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Irish Cities written by David Dickson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account reveals how the country's cities were distinctive and--through the Irish diaspora--influential beyond Ireland's shores.

Author : Maurice Curtis
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750964766
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Hell or Monto written by Maurice Curtis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time when the two most notorious red-light districts not only in Ireland but in all of Europe could be found on the streets of Dublin. Though the name of Monto has endured long in folk memory, the area known as Hell was equally notorious, feared and renowned in its day. In this new work Maurice Curtis explores the histories of these dark remnants of Dublin's past, complete with their gambling, duelling and vice, their rowdy taverns and houses of ill repute.

Author : Christopher Morash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110892364X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dublin written by Christopher Morash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an ordinary-looking residential street overlooking Dublin Bay, for instance, presents the house where Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney lived for many years; a few blocks away is the house where another Nobel Laureate, W. B. Yeats, was born. Just down the coast is the pier linked to yet another, Samuel Beckett, from which we can see the Martello Tower that is the setting for the opening chapter of Ulysses. But these are only a few. Step-by-step, Dublin: A Writer's City unfolds a book-lover's map of this unique city, inviting us to experience what it means to live in a great city of literature. The book is heavily illustrated, and features custom maps.

Author : John Hinks
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527522814
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Urban Renaissance Revisited written by John Hinks and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarter of a century ago, Professor Peter Borsay identified a specifically urban phenomenon of cultural revival that took root in the late seventeenth century, leading to the flowering of a wide range of cultural forms and the extensive remodelling of the townscape along classically inspired lines. Borsay called this the ‘English Urban Renaissance’. These essays, including Borsay’s reflective and thought-provoking revisiting of his concept, offer a wide-ranging exploration of the continuing and still developing impact of the ‘English Urban Renaissance’ and investigate the wider impact of the concept beyond England. The essays reiterate the importance of provincial towns as hubs of economic, cultural and political activity and the strength and vitality of urban culture beyond the metropolis. They trace the development of urban culture over time in the light of the concept of ‘urban renaissance’, showing how urban townscapes and cultural life were transformed throughout the long eighteenth century. Together, they establish the continuing impact and importance of Borsay’s concept, demonstrate the breadth of its influence in the UK and beyond, and point to possible areas of research for the future.

Author : Jonathan Bardon
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717163555
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life written by Jonathan Bardon and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world's greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the following spring ...In Hallelujah, Jonathan Bardon, one of Ireland's leading historians, explores the remarkable circumstances surrounding the first performance of Handel's now iconic oratorio in Dublin, providing a panoramic view of a city in flux – at once struggling to contain the chaos unleashed by the catastrophic famine of the preceding year while striving to become a vibrant centre of European culture and commerce.Brimming with drama, curiosity and intrigue, and populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, Hallelujah tells of how one charitable performance wove itself into the fabric of Ireland's capital, changing the course of musical history and the lives of those who called the city home.

Author : John Gibney
Publisher : O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 9781788491648
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dublin: A Guide to the Best of Ireland's Capital City [Wst] written by John Gibney and published by O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Dublin aimed at a general tourist market. This informative yet lively and accessible guide will give the reader a flavour of the history of the city through its architecture, culture and tourist attractions. Highly illustrated with photographs throughout.