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Book SynopsisUrban spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland is a wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays, which offers new insights on the Irish urban experience. Adopting a spatial approach, the essays presented in this collection move beyond study of events that happened and people who lived in the towns and cities of nineteenth-century Ireland, instead exploring the ways in which particular urban spaces were constructed and experienced. Focusing on a range of urban spaces, from individual streets and districts, to schools, asylums and entire cities, they highlight both the multifaceted nature of the Irish urban experience and the potential of the spatial approach to the study of history.
Trade ReviewReviews ‘This is an innovative, varied and intriguing volume which inspires the reader to engage with new ways of exploring our urban past… highly recommended to all those interested in, or curious about, urban history.’
Ruth McManus,
Irish Historical Studies'The book provides valuable exemplars of urban history informed by different conceptualizations of space and place.'Richard Dennis,
Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction - Olwen Purdue and Jonathan Wright The Royal Paragon; setting out suburban space in nineteenth century Dublin' - Laura Johnstone Municipal Social Housing in Ireland 1866-1914 - Matthew Potter `The Donegalls' Backside': Donegall Place, the White Linen Hall and the development of space and place in nineteenth-century Belfast - Jonathan Wright The school and the home: constructing childhood and space in Dublin boarding schools - Mary Hatfield `High walls and locked doors': contested spaces in Belfast workhouse 1880 - 1905 - Olwen Purdue Levelling up the lower deeps - rural and suburban spaces at an Edwardian asylum - Gillian Allmond Locating investigations into suicidal deaths in urban Ireland, 1901-1915 - Georgina Laragy Visualizing the City: Images of Ireland's urban world, c. 1790 - 1820 - Mary Jane Boland Forging a Shared Identity: Irish Migrants and Steel Cities 1850-1900 - Oliver Betts
