HISTORY
Colonial and Imperial Dublin: History, Buildings and Afterlife
AUTUMN HN149
Tuesdays
Tutor: John Gibney
How much can you learn about Dublin? And how much do you already know? The first of two interactive courses on the history of Dublin will help students to indulge their curiosity about the city and its past, and to build on their own knowledge and experience of Dublin by using aspects of its history to encourage a fresh engagement with its past, and hopefully its present.
This course will look at the history of Dublin by examining the city in terms of its colonial and imperial past, from its Viking origins, through its role as a medieval trading centre and its emergence as the ‘second city’ of the British Empire, its decline within the United Kingdom, its significance on the eve of Irish independence, and the legacy of its past in the decades after independence.
The course is a combination of lectures on Tuesday evenings and walks on Saturday mornings.
| BELFIELD | ||
| 6 Tuesdays | Sep 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 | 7.30pm - 9.30pm |
| 4 Saturdays | Sep 29, Oct 13, 20, Nov 3 | 11.00am - 1.00pm |
| FEE €190 |
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Tutor Details:
John Gibney is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and has been a researcher at both the University of Notre Dame and NUI Galway. He is the author of Ireland and the Popish Plot (Palgrave, 2008) and was a contributor to the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Originally from Kilbarrack in north Dublin, he has worked in heritage tourism in the city since 2001.
Provisional list of key topics to be covered:
- Viking settlement and the origins of the city
- The medieval boundaries of Dublin: walking the walls
- Medieval and Early Modern Dublin: colonial enclave and colonial bridgehead, c.1200-c.1600
- From Speed to Rocque: Dublin in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- The imperial infrastructure of Dublin: from Kilmainham to Collins Barracks
- The ‘Second City’: imperial Dublin under the Georges
- Eighteenth-century Dublin: ‘Gorgeous Masks’
- The ‘deposed capital’: Dublin’s decline in the nineteenth-century
- Dublin after independence: the past in the present
- The Pembroke estate and the destruction of Dublin
Who is the course for?
Anyone with an interest in the history of Dublin
Reading List:
The following is a selection of recommended texts for those interested in reading further around the course content. We advise that you do not buy books in advance of the course as your tutor will discuss the list and suggest the most relevant reading for particular interests.
There is no shortage of books about Dublin, many of which will be relevant to this course. A more detailed reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course. What follows is a selected list of more general works:
Christine Casey, Dublin: The City within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park (New Haven, 2005)
Peter Clarke and Raymond Gillespie (eds), Two Capitals: London and Dublin, 1500-1840 (Oxford, 2001)
Howard B. Clarke, Sarah Dent & Ruth Johnston, Dublinia: The story of medieval Dublin (Dublin, 2002)
Art Cosgrove (ed), Dublin through the ages (Dublin, 1988)
Maurice Craig, Dublin, 1660-1860 (London, 1952, and subsequent editions)
Catriona Crowe (ed), Dublin 1911 (Dublin, 2011)
Mary E. Daly, Dublin, The Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History, 1860-1900 (Cork, 1984; 2011)
David Dickson (ed), The Gorgeous Mask: Dublin, 1700-1850 (Dublin, 1987)
Sean Duffy (ed), Medieval Dublin, I-XI (Dublin, 2000-present)
Ruth Johnston, Viking Age Dublin (Dublin, 2004)
Colm Lennon and John Montague, John Rocque’s Dublin: A guide to the Georgian City (Dublin, 2010)
Niall McCullough, Dublin: An Urban History – The Plan of the City (Dublin, 2007)
Frank McDonald, The destruction of Dublin (Dublin, 1985)
Gillian O’Brien and Finola O’Kane (eds), Georgian Dublin (Dublin, 2008)
Joseph Brady and Anngret Simms (eds), Dublin through Space and Time (Dublin, 2001)
