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Dublin’s Bourgeois Homes : Building the Victorian Suburbs, 1850-1901, Paperback / softback Book

Dublin’s Bourgeois Homes : Building the Victorian Suburbs, 1850-1901 Paperback / softback

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In 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields.

The Victorian house had arrived: wide red brick structures stood back behind manicured front lawns.

Over the next forty years, an estimated 35,000 of these homes were constructed in the fields surrounding the city.

The most elaborate were built for Dublin’s upper middle classes, distinguished by their granite staircases and decorative entrances.

Today, they are some of the Irish capital’s most highly valued structures, and are protected under strict conservation laws. Dublin’s Bourgeois Homes is the first in-depth analysis of the city’s upper middle-class houses.

Focusing on the work of three entrepreneurial developers, Susan Galavan follows in their footsteps as they speculated in house building: signing leases, acquiring plots and sourcing bricks and mortar.

She analyses a select range of homes in three different districts: Ballsbridge, Rathgar and Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), exploring their architectural characteristics: from external form to plan type, and detailing of materials.

Using measured surveys, photographs, and contemporary drawings and maps, she shows how house design evolved over time, as bay windows pushed through façades and new lines of coloured brick were introduced.

Taking the reader behind the façades into the interiors, she shows how domestic space reflected the lifestyle and aspirations of the Victorian middle classes.

This analysis of the planning, design and execution of Dublin’s bourgeois homes is an original contribution to the history of an important city in the British Empire.

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