Dublin Interest

Major Haig ordered them to 'prepare to fire', whereupon they the fired indiscriminately, point blank, at the people in the street. Four people were killed and thirty-seven wounded. All Ireland...

In a global context, the River Liffey may seem small and infantile. Not much more than 100 km in length and less than 10,000 years old, it is dwarfed by...

On the fringe of Dublin's hive of human activity, a miraculous coastal ecosystem carries on as it has done since the last Ice Age. Beaches, saltmarshes, rocky shores, cliffs, islands...

How well do you know your Dublin?" Killiney Hill may just be the perfect belvedere because it's both low enough and high enough to register the great sweep of the...

Founded in 1872, Temple Street Children's Hospital is now one of Ireland's best recognised children's hospitals. From the nurses who used to smuggle 'Penny Horribles' onto the wards, to the...

'from swerve of shore to bend of bay' James Joyce, Finnegans WakeDublin is a city bordered by the sea - in all its moods and beauty. Dublin Bay presents over...

Got some time on your hands before you hit Dublin's famous pubs? Then you need this book, an invaluable guide to twenty of Dublin's highlights for visitors and native alike....

Donnybrook is one of the most iconic areas of South Dublin, a prosperous and peaceful suburb that is well-known as the being the heartland of Leinster Rugby.It derived its name,...

Holy Wells began life as sacred pagan sites, and were gradually assimilated into the early Celtic Christian in an effort to convert the native masses. Many have seen the rise...

Have you heard the story of 'Bang Bang' Dudley, who roamed the streets of Dublin shooting anyone who caught his eye? Or of 'Lugs' Brannigan, the city's most famous detective?...

THE LITTLE BOOK OF SANDYMOUNT is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about one of Dublin's most important suburbs.Here you will find out about Sandymount's streets and...

Dublin 7 is a journey through one of Dublin's largest and most colourful postal districts. Neary's beautifully illustrated volume (with maps and photographs) covers the areas of Ashtown, Broadstone, Cabra,...

It is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. However, Diarmuid O Grada now shows us a Dublin quite unlike that depicted in the conventional histories of...

Using photographs, postcards and other rare documents, 'True Dublin' provides a unique glimpse into life in Dublin at a time of great social and political change, during the final decades...

Dublin was established as a Viking settlement in the early Middle Ages and, following the Norman Invasion of Ireland, rapidly grew in size and importance to become a major city....

Dublin has had a long association with its pubs. The city grew rapidly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming a major port for trade around the world, and the...

This ground-breaking and compelling book takes us deep into the world of a public housing estate in Dublin, showing in fine detail the life struggles of those who live there.The...

This is the first comprehensive, scholarly history of Trinity College Library Dublin. It covers the whole 400 years of the Library's development, from its foundation by James Ussher in the...

A detailed and illuminating account of Dublin's most important eighteenth-century and Victorian southside suburbs, examining their rich layers of history, their growth and development, special features, famous inhabitants. The author...

The oldest settled community on the northside of Dublin, Stoneybatter comprises the ancient Viking settlement of Oxmantown. This northwest frontier of Dublin was a major trading hub for over a...

Girl: 'Giz a kiss.' Bloke: 'Let me swally me phlegm first.' - Two aul dears queuing for the no. 27 bus. Just caught the end of the conversation: Old dear...

This book is totally unique. It is based on the original and wholly authentic testimonies of survivors of the old Dublin tenements. For nearly 150 years, the wretched, squalid tenements...

The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin explains the action of the book in terms of its settings and illuminates some of the more challenging sections of Joyce's work. This...

Approaching 21st-century Dublin by boat, the topography of the sight before you - the hill of Howth, the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains - is much the same as what greeted...

O'Connell Street is at the heart of Dublin. It has been through name changes and revolutions, destruction and rebuilding and remained at the heart of the story of Ireland for...

A random collection of tales of human tragedy, eccentrics, crime and punishment, hanging and rioting on 'The Green'. 'The Green' for several hundred years was effectively the killing fields of...

For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the...

This handy guide to Dublin's architecture is filled with easy-to-follow walks through the city, with clear maps, expert architectural insights and fascinating historical detail. Dublin's long history has had a...