Dublin Interest

Dublin has been called the centre of the paralysis of the Universe, the second city of Empire, Scandaltown, Strumpet City, a series of accidental encounters, the largest village in Europe,...

This volume contains a collection of watercolour paintings by the author of his favourite Dublin buildings and green spaces. Each painting is accompanied by a commentary that is descriptive, historical...

Large parts of central Dublin are being rebuilt and renewed. This book of photographs of the city is based on the private collection of Dr Derek Stanley, which covers the...

This book explains what has made Dublin one of the great historical capitals of the world, examining the origin of placenames familiar to every citizen of Dublin, and the people...

The Lilliput Press is proud to reissue this iconic view of Dublin's northside docks area in the 1980s, which comprises Ronan Sheehan's text and over 50 black and white photographs...

The Ordnance Survey's large-scale town plans for Dublin (1847) are the focus of this book. Forty-five extracts from these richly detailed maps depict the streets, lanes, buildings, gardens, yards and...

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...

A hundred years ago sevants underpinned middle- and upper-class life in Ireland, and domestic service was the major source of employment for women before social conditions changed utterly after the...

Did you ever hear tell of Ogilvy's Mourning Warehouse in Grafton Street? Or maybe your granny went to see Monsieur Chylinkski - the modern Hercules! - in the New Theatre...

This is the first colouring book to celebrate Dublin's architecture. Forty of the city's most iconic and beautiful buildings have been selected, among them public edifices like the Four Courts...

This astonishing collection of photographs chronicles the wildlife in our nation's capital along the River Dodder. Despite the density of houses, office blocks and commuter traffic, the creatures survive in...

Rathmines is one of the oldest and most vibrant parts of Dublin. In this compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts you will find out about Rathmines' past, its...