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 … More

World War One and Irish Identity

For my final paper I am planning to focus on the cultural impact of World War One on Irish consciousness … More

This week, my virtual travels took me outside of Dublin and to the West of Ireland. Joyce’s Dubliners, while taking … More

In our literary exploration of the writers of Dublin, Yeats has been my favorite writer thus far. His poetics — … More

I walked around the River Liffey, past the famous (and infamous) Custom House Building, and turned into the Abbey Theatre. … More

“Walking” around in my own virtual exploration of Dublin’s architectural features, I made my way to Dublin Castle. Dublin castle … More

The landscape of Dublin does not necessarily reveal on the surface the political turmoil and resistance that shaped the seventeenth … More

Through the Newgrange virtual reality tour, I explored the Neolithic site, the Newgrange Passage Tomb. The monument was believed to … More