Dublin Interest

The Phoenix Park is Ireland's best-known park. Each day, hundreds of people come into the park to work within what is the largest walled park in Europe. And each night,...

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Eason Favourite Book of the Year 2022 'she is no small town, and this is no small story . . .'BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCASTA companion to the...

In 1814, the Richmond Lunatic Asylum at Grangegorman in Dublinstarted an extraordinary programme of asylum building across Ireland,aimed at alleviating the suffering of people with mental illness who werehomeless, in...

'A riveting and important read, forensically documenting the state's failings while also relating the traumatic human fallout for a whole community for whom life would never be the same again'...

For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing oral history. Armed only with a...

A feminist history of Europe's largest red-light district and an examination of the lives of the women who worked there.Tucked away in Dublin's north inner city, Monto - purported to...

Moore Street has long held a special place in the hearts of Irish people. Whether playing host to its local customers or to the generations of country folk who visit...

Mulligan's is more than a Dublin pub; it is an Irish cultural phenomenon. It has a unique and colourful history, spanning over two hundred years. Mulligan's has hosted the famous...

Dublin's twenty bridges cross the tidal section of the River Liffey flowing through its centre; they were built over a span of a thousand years. Each has made a contribution...

ONE DUBLIN ONE BOOK 2025 Dublin, Written in our Hearts An Anthology celebrating 20 years of One Dublin One BookEdited by Declan MeadeOne Dublin One Book is a Dublin City...

For many years Dundrum was just another stop on the railway between Harcourt Street and Bray; it was a village in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains that, despite its...

Dublin is a unique, multi-layered city, where ancient and youthful meet to form a community rich in culture, creativity and song. With picturesque seaside villages and romantic medieval castles, you...

Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images,...

The city in literature, song, character and place. Declan Collinge's compelling literary journey down those historic streets, broad and narrow, now adds a rich colourful dimension to our understanding of...

This comprehensive directory lists historic locations in Dublin on a street-by-street basis, describing events during the tumultuous decade from the 1913 Dublin Lockout, through the 1916 Easter Rising and Irish...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Castleknock and Blanchardstown, the main settlements in the Barony of Castleknock were small villages whose trade was focused mainly on agriculture. There was...

Karl Whitney's Hidden City: a brilliant portrait of Dublin. Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney - who has been described by Gorse...

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...

Portobello lies on the bank of the Grand Canal, stretching from South Richmond Street to Clanbrassil Street and the South Circular Road and including some of the adjacent roads and...

Rathfarnham is one of the most fascinating and attractive parts of South County Dublin. Over the years it has witnessed some of the pivotal events in Irish history and has...

Talking in the canteen yesterday about pets and the likes, one girl known for confusing her words came out with this in front of six or seven of us: 'My...

Dublin 1913 to 1930, a tumultuous and exciting time in the city's history. Paddy Crosbie catches that tumult and conveys that excitement in this childhood memoir of city life. A...

This book is the perfect stocking filler for all ages. A right de-bollicking! I work in a veterinary clinic and I answered a phone call one day: Woman: 'I need...

From the author of Between the Mountains and the Sea comes a book charting the history of the centre of the city of Dublin. It traces the history of the...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Make My Day Dublin is a unique guide that allows you to effortlessly plan your perfect day. Flip through the...

This book situates the history of Trinity College Dublin within the great upheavals and changes that were taking place in Ireland and the wider world in the transformative period between...

A fascinating history of an ancient place.From its first mention in legend in the Book of Invasions, through early Christian monastic settlements, castles and grand residences, Fenian raids and the...

Towards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network began finally to be exposed. The mistreatment endured by children and...

A thrilling investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2022.'All the shocks and surprises of the best crime fiction'...

Dublinia is the story of a unique period in Irish history told with passion, imagination and accuracy.This book leads the reader through the noise and bustle of the medieval streets...

Dublin city is blessed in its location, between the splendid Dublin/Wicklow mountains and the beautiful Dublin bay, and in this setting the hinterland of the city has grown over the...

Yvonne Whelan takes the reader from the contested iconography of Dublin as it evolved in the years before Independence through to the contemporary plans for the millennium spire on O'Connell...

Lansdowne Road Stadium, the oldest international stadium in the world, has been at the centre of Irish sporting life since it opening in 1878. This year the stadium will close...

More than just a walking guide, The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin provides a guide to James Joyce's novel Ulysses by following its eighteen episodes on their original locations,...

The principal wholesale market is in Smithfield, a narrow oblong area in the northeastern part of the city, the site of which is the property of the corporation, as part...