Small builders and industrious artizans: shaping Drumcondra housing

Talk by Dr Ruth McManus, Associate Professor in Geography and Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, DCU.

Her most recent books are the second edition of ‘Dublin 1910-1940, Shaping the city and suburbs’ (2021), and ‘Building Healthy Homes, Dublin Corporation’s first housing schemes 1880-1925’, (2021) co-authored with Joseph Brady.

She is an editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Irish Historic Towns Atlas project and is currently working on the Drumcondra suburbs atlas, due for publication in 2024.

Booking: Call 01 222 8344 or email drumcondralibrary@dublincity.ie.

Location: Drumcondra Library, Millmount Avenue Drumcondra