Fitzwilliam Square on the south side of Dublin provides the setting and a true-life cast of characters for Lives Less Ordinary, which examines how residents of a small Georgian square impacted on the history of Dublin and the wider world, permeating every walk of Irish life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this updated edition, we follow the legal inhabitants of Fitzwilliam Square into nineteenth century courtrooms, we witness their soldier sons on a succession of battlefields, we examine the remarkable artistic and literary output of the square, and we hear amusing anecdotes about the politicians, doctors and academics who lived here, including tales of duels, ghosts, and political and personal scandals. On their own, the sketches offer intriguing portraits of individual lives, but woven together they provide a fascinating overview of Irish life at a particular place and time. The stories are varied and wide-ranging, but they are anchored by the fact that they only involve those inhabitants of the sixty-nine houses of Fitzwilliam Square.
- ISBN:
- 9781739789275
- 9781739789275
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Category:
- Biography: historical
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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28-12-2023
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Liffey Press, The
- Country of origin:
- Ireland
- Dimensions (mm):
- 312.42x233.68mm
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