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Exploring Hidden Dublin - Docklands to Little Jersualem
This course will provide people with an insight into the social history of the Irish capital in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By combining classroom lectures with walking tours, the course aims to shine a light on the lives of ordinary Dublin citizens historically, looking at issues like work, health, class, culture, politics and more. The class explores the rich industrial and architectural heritage of the city, which remind us of how Dubliners lived and worked in times long past. The class will introduce people to some of the more unsavoury aspects of Dublin's past, while also celebrating the rich history of the city.
Utilising tools like the 1911 Census, the Bureau of Military History and other archival materials, the class will educate participants on the tools at our disposal to help us tell the stories of ordinary Dubliners.
Key subjects examined in detail include the role of Dublin’s docklands historically, the emergence of the so-called ‘Monto’ district, and the class tensions that led to the 1913 Lockout.
4 Tuesdays 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Feb 20, 27, Mar 6, 13
4 Saturdays 11.00am - 1.00pm
Feb 24, Mar 3, 10, 24
- Working class housing
- Changing industries and the economy of Dublin
- Prostitution in Dublin
- Health and the city
- Working class responses to the Irish revolution.
At the end of this course, a student should be able to :
- Outline Class divisions in Dublin society historically.
- Evaluate if Irish historiography has reflected these divisions, or if this remains a ‘Hidden History’.
- Discuss key themes such as housing historically.
- Explain issues such as infectious disease in Dublin historically, or the changing landscape of the city (the rise of the suburbs for example)
Donal Fallon is a historian and broadcaster based in Dublin. A graduate of University College Dublin, his MA thesis examined the ‘Animal Gangs’ and youth violence in working class Dublin in the 1930s. He is particularly interested in the social history of the Irish capital. His publications include a study of the Nelson Pillar (New Island, 2014). He is editor of the Dublin history blog ‘Come Here To Me’.
- Kevin Kearns: Dublin Tenement Life
- Padraig Yeates: Lockout: Dublin 1913
- David Dickson: Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
- Joe Duffy: Children of the Rising
- Terry Fagan: Monto: Madams, Murder and Black Coddle.