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AISLING AND THE CITY EMER McLYSAGHT & SARAH BREEN

Our favourite Irish heroine is back, and this time she’s in the Big Apple having accepted an unexpected job offer. As Aisling finds her feet in NYC, she throws herself into the dating game, grapples with "always-on" work culture, forges and fights for new friendships and brings her good wedges to a party in the Hamptons, much to Sadhbh’s dismay. When a crisis in Ballygobard makes her doubt her place in Manhattan, can Aisling retain her New York state of mind, or will the lure of home be too much to resist? An insightfu l and feel-good rea d.

DUBLIN 1910-1940 SHAPING THE CITY AND SUBURBS RUTH McMANUS

Between 1910 and 1940 Dublin's suburbs grew considerably. For the first time, planned suburbanization of the working classes became a stated policy, with new and idealistic schemes such as Marino, Drumcondra and Crumlin being built. At the same time, private speculative development was continuing at the edges of the city, where individual builder often had a major impact on the layout and style of the suburbs.

This was also a period when the modern town planning movement and evolving ideas about citizenship in the new State impacted on the shaping of the city. Many of the formative decisions that came to shape the modern low-rise, low-density city were taken at this time. The story of Dublin's development in the period from 1910 to 1940 covers a time of major political and social change in Ireland. Illustrated with maps and photographs, this book is a dream for those wanting to know and how the Dublin we know and love came to be.