When money’s tight and hard to get and your horse has also ran, when all you have is a heap of debt …

A period of panic in the 1960s following the collapse of some tenement buildings led to a process that saw the destruction of much of Dublin’s architectural heritage.

The Conroys and the Blooms had something in common: a stranger, in one case a dead one, had wandered into their marriage. They also tended to wander into each other’s books.

A German traveller’s account of a visit he made to Dublin in 1850 reveals much about the politics and economics of being pretty and the life of a poor girl in Victorian Dublin

Fionn Mac Cumhaill was well remembered until quite recently for his many exploits not too far off the route of the 65b from Hawkins Street

The German historian Friedrich Von Raumer, visiting in 1835, had never seen beggars, or popular amusements, quite like Dublin’s.

A no-man’s land twixt Norse and Brit, chained to the granite quays.

Trinity College students in the early twentieth century were denied association with women, so their energies found other outlets.

A Dublin poem, of going and returning, from Gerard Smyth.

The supreme place given to the national question meant some Dublin politicians had to affect a deep concern for the poor they did not necessarily really feel.