Table of Contents

Introduction: Modern Dublin and the Irish Past
1: Chapter One: Planning and the Eighteenth-Century City, 1955-75
2: Georgian Dublin and Modern Architecture, 1950-65
3: Kildare Place and the Irish Georgian Society, 1957-58
4: Modernization and Preservation, 1958-65
5: Housing, Community, and Preservation, 1963-70
6: Material Culture and Social Politics, 1964-73
7: Office Politics, 1965-70
Conclusion: The Invention of Georgian Dublin
Bibliography

About the Author

Erika Hanna was born in Dublin and grew up in Ireland, Britain, and America. She studied for her BA at the University of Bristol and completed her doctorate on 1960s Dublin at Hertford College, Oxford. She has been appointed Chancellor's Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh.

Reviews

a scholarly and serious contribution ... [it] will become a staple for contemporary Irish history studies.
*Ellen Rowley, Irish Arts*

Modern Dublin makes a significant contribution to scholarship on urban modernization in this period and it deepens our understanding of social, political and cultural change in the twentieth-century city.
*David Ellis, The Journal of Urban History*

traces the sociopolitical labyrinths of destruction and conservation
*Roy Foster, Books of the year 2014, The Irish Times*

Modern Dublin is an interesting and timely addition to the historical literature on Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s. By highlighting the emergence of the nexus between politicians, property developers and protesters during this period, it will doubtless be widely read by those seeking to understand Ireland's economic and urban development in historical perspective.
*Shaun Mcdaid, History*

Hanna's ability to construct a series of nuanced arguments and sophisticated readings while making sense of what is a complicated and evolving narrative is one of the many strengths of this important book.
*Gary A. Boyd, American Historical Review*