New Book on Dublin's Future

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Advance Book Information
DUBLIN’S FUTURE
NEW VISIONS FOR ND’S CAP
Edited by Lorcan Sirr

Paperback; November 2011; 300 pages
Lorcan Sirr – on Cities / Peter Sirr – on Literature
Gregory Bracken – on the View from Without
Noel J. Brady – on Crossings / Dermot Lacey – on Politics /
Paul Donnelly – on Theatre / Seán MacErlaine – on Music
Sinead Shannon – on Ageing / Helen Carey – on Visual Arts
Ciaran Fallon – on Movement /Gillian O’Brien – on Memory
Conor Skehan – on Economy / Deirdre Black – on Landscape
Katrina Goldstone – on Ethnic Legacy / Ferdinand von Prondzynski – on Education

What’s good for Dublin is very good for Ireland. Dublin’s Future: New Visions for Ireland’s Capital City is a collection of essays which for the first time recognises that the future of the island’s largest and most important urban conurbation is about more than the engineering of roads and the colouring of development plans, and that the success of Dublin will ensure the success of the nation.
Music, literature, housing, ethnic minorities, theatre, energy, and much more all have their role to play in making and sustaining Dublin as firstly Ireland’s premier city and economic engine, and secondly as a place where people will want to live, visit, do business, be educated, create, spend, be cared for, be employed in, and in which to age.

Contributors are recognised authorities in their fields. They cross sectors of age, private and public, profit and non-profit, and each and every one has something interesting to say about the future of Dublin.

About the Editor

Lorcan Sirr is a lecturer in the School of Real Estate and Construction Economics at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He has an MA in Literature from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and an MA and PhD from the School of Architecture and School of Planning and Landscape respectively, both at the University of Manchester in the UK. He has written for The Irish Times and Sunday Tribune, various journals and magazines, and provided commentary on housing, planning and related issues for RTÉ, the BBC, and CBC in Canada.

[Ribeye]

Capital city of fckn what, the non autonomous european administrative district number 2,

[Munion]

Capital city of fckn what, the non autonomous european administrative district number 2,

The capital city of Ireland.

A simple wikipedia search will give you the answer Dublin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Cassandra Syndrome]

[Ribeye]

The capital city of Ireland.

A simple wikipedia search will give you the answer Dublin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What a witty resonse, I am truly pwned, no question!

[Schuhart]

Capital city of fckn what, the non autonomous european administrative district number 2,

For what its worth, I'd agree the idea of Dublin as a centre of national political autonomy is toast. What's of more point is thinking about Dublin as a cultural, social and economic entity.

The book looks potentially interesting. I'll certainly cast an eye over it.

[oggy]

Herself and meself were only talking an hour ago about going to city centre this weekend for a few books. Is it on sale now ?

[cllr]

II don't think it goes on sale until November 3rd.

[McDave]

Cllr, will you bump this thread after the buke is actually published? It could make for an interesting thread once we've had some time to digest it.

PS: thanks for the tip.

[cllr]

Will do as soon as it is published.