Dublin, 1745-1922
Subtitle: Hospitals, Spectacle and Vice (Making of Dublin City)
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: January 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781851829606
Subjects: Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Social history; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Hospitals; History, 18th Century; Medical / Nursing; History: World; Ireland; Health Care Delivery; History; Europe - Ireland; History, 19th Century
Description: "Based mainly on archival material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of eighteenth-century Dublin as an ideal Protestant city by investigating the hidden world behind its wide streets and magnificent Georgian facades."--BOOK JACKET.