"Dear, dirty Dublin" : A city in distress, 1899 - 1916
Dublin Core
Titre
"Dear, dirty Dublin" : A city in distress, 1899 - 1916
Sujet
Dublin, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, quartier défavorisé, quartier dégradé, pauvreté, logement, société urbaine, histoire urbaine, O'Brien Joseph V.
Description
Extract from the preface :
Only a few cities evoke those clear images that feed the mind and imagination of successive generations or represent for posterity the spirit of an age : Johnson's London, Louis Napoleon's Paris, Brecht's Berlin. And so also the Dublin of Yeats and Joyce. This "literary" Dublin has long fascinated specialist and student alike. And little wonder, for ever since the creative genius of her most famous son reincarnated the wandering Ulysses in the person of a Dublin Jew, the city on the Liffey has become a "world city" - a world city of the literary imagination. There is another Dublin, again a Dublin of Yeats and Joyce, but one that evokes harsher images and nurtures little of the interest reserved for the milieu of dramatist and poet. This, the nether world of tenement and slum, of the poor and unemployed, is in large part the subject of this study.
Joseph V. O'Brien is a Professor in the Department of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York.
