Law and the emergence of modern Dublin : a litigation topography for a capital city / W.N. Osborough.

Author
Osborough, W. N. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society, ©1996.
Description
xxii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    This book aims to reconstruct part of Dublin's past from source material of an unconventional and unfamiliar sort: accounts of lawsuits generated by the evolving fortunes of the city and surrounding district. To enable the significance of these lawsuits to be better understood and to lend coherence to the narrative as a whole, additional explanatory material has been incorporated, drawn principally from general and specialist local histories. But the choice of focus has been dictated by the presence of an inventory of lawsuits with a topographical bias. In his preface, Professor Osborough remarks that he is unaware of the existence of any equivalent published exercise carried out for any other large city. Complete with a detailed index and tables of cases and statutes, this volume is enhanced by over 100 illustrations in black and white.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-191) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Introducing litigation topography
    • 2. Defining Dublin
    • 3. The physical setting
    • 4. The river, port and bay
    • 5. Re-naming Sackville street
    • 6. Landmark buildings
    • 7. Public utilities
    • 8. Recreation for Dubliners
    • 9. Burying Dubliners
    • 10. Assessment
    • Appendix: Vice-chancellor Chatterton and Dublin street nomenclature
    • The Irish Legal History Society.
    ISBN
    • 0716525836
    • 9780716525837
    LCCN
    96152753
    OCLC
    34798391
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