Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity

Name: Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity
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ISBN: 9781900621861

ISBN-10: 190062186X

ISBN-13: 9781900621861

Edition: 2003

Authors: Yvonne Whelan

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This study of urban and cultural geography shows how Dublin's iconography evolved before and after the creation of the Irish Free State. Yvonne Whelan argues that a shift has taken place from an intensely political iconography to one that is increasingly apolitical.

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Publication date: 1/10/2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.06" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Yvonne Whelan is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity (UCD Press, 2003) and co-editor of Ireland: Space, Text, Time (Liffey, 2005).



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List of figures


List of tables


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction: setting the context


Unravelling the cultural geographies of landscape


Interrogating the cultural landscape


City of empire, site of resistance: the iconography of Dublin before independence


Representing empire: the monumental legacy of monarchy and military


Contested identities and the monumental landscape


Naming Dublin: imperial power, nationalist resistance


A capital once again: reinventing Dublin after independence


Symbolising the state: planning, power and the architecture of nationhood


Scripting national memory: the power of public monuments


Removing icons of empire: de-commemoration and the cultural landscape


Street naming and nation building in Dublin


The power of space: towards a postmodern iconography


Notes


Bibliography


Index