The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation

Dickson, David
Yale University Press
 9780300229462
0-300-22946-1

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.

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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 countrys cities were distinctive andthrough the Irish diasporainfluential beyond Irelands shores.