Grada Diarmuid O: Georgian Dublin [2015] hardback LANGU and Australia

and Australia

But when war breaks out

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is just looking for a place to belong

co-author of Switch and Made to Stick

Grada Diarmuid O: Georgian Dublin [2015] hardback LANGU and AustraliaIt 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 grand red brick squares and elegant drawing rooms. Phenomenal population growth was forced on a place where local government, the workshops and the streets themselves had changed little since medieval times. In the course of the century the number of Dubliners trebled