Adi Vildorf, Campbell Martin, Andi Ismail, Mina El Attar, Eric Armenta Isolde’s Tower (medieval, but discovered by Simpson) (https://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/vl011-isoldes-tower-1993) While…
Michael Collins
Aidan Thompson, Sabrina Marks, Ronald Li, Nicole Bosiy 1. A Greatly Condensed Biography Michael Collins was born as the third…
“Quite Too Utterly Utter” Oscar Wilde
Jocelyn Sanchez, Lia Inadomi, and Ellen Relac This artifact depicts an illustration of Oscar Wilde on the front cover of…
Newgrange
Adrianna Grayson, Matthew Moon, and Sophia Kloster (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/659/) When one thinks about notable historical architecture, most would not immediately think…
IRA Proclamation
Jazmine Padilla, Kathryn Walsh, Esteban Lovato, Jenna McFarland Three groups– the Irish Republican Brotherhood, The Irish Volunteers, and the Irish…
Anatomical Account of the Elephant Accidentally Burnt
Maria Alexandrescu, Andrew Checcia, Sophie Seeholzer In seventeenth-century Britain, elephants were exotic and rare animals that the majority of the…
A Modest Proposal
Artifact: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Category: Art and Culture Group: Jackson Rose, Avery Bookout, Levon Grigoryan In 1729,…
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Artifact: St. Patrick’s CathedralCategory: Early History / Medieval Dublin source of photo: https://www.tripsavvy.com/saint-patrick-cathedral-1542294 From its origins as a small wooden…
Henrietta Street – Tenement Living
Group Annotation Field Guide by Spencer Beck, Bella Rocha, and Sarah Spalding for English 119, Spring 2020. Annotation examines the photograph “Children at play on Henrietta Street, Dublin in the early 1920s” from Poverty and Health. Field guide discusses the street’s history from Georgian law estate homes to crowded tenements for the poor, as well as connections to prominent works of Irish literature from the era studied in the duration of our course. Thank you.
Urban Growth and Development: Cholera and Empire
This January 1832 article in The Freeman’s Journal underscores the way in which England’s colonial administration wielded economic power to…