Drawing together established and emerging scholars from across the arts, humanities and social sciences, this book examines the relationship of Dublin to Ireland’s social history through the city’s visual culture, including case studies of Dublin’s streetscapes, architecture and sculpture, and its depiction in literature, photography and cinema.

Justin Carville teaches Historical and Theoretical Studies in Photography and Visual Culture at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. His first book, , was published in 2011.

Contents: Justin Carville: Introduction: Visual Culture and the Making of Modern Dublin – Jeffrey A. Cohen: Dublin Streets Sideways: Henry Shaw’s 1850 – Ian Morley: Place, Race and Grand Architectural Statements: Civic Design in Early-1900s Dublin – Gary A. Boyd: Dublin’s Ephemeral and Imaginary Architectures – Sean Mannion: Celtic Arc Light: The Electric Light in Early Twentieth-Century Dublin – Denis Condon: ‘Temples to the Art of Cinematography’: The Cinema on the Dublin Streetscape, 1910-1920 – Paula Gilligan: Between Guinness and Holy Water: Alexandre Trauner’s Dublin – Justin Carville: ‘The Glad Smile of God’s Sunlight’: Photography and the Imaginative Geography of Darkest Dublin – Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch: Political Sculpture in Twentieth-Century Dublin: Art as a Barometer of Political Expression – Jennifer Way: O’Connell Street as the ‘Nation’s Main Street’: The Image of Ireland’s Modernity and Irelantis – Christopher Lowe: Dublin’s (in)Authentic Vista – Eamonn Slater: Visualizing ‘History’ in a Dublin Suburb: The ‘forlorn little’ Dolmen of Ballybrack – Silvia Loeffler: Deep Mappings of Dublin: Spot the Blind Spot.