Georgina Laragy is Glasnevin Trust Assistant Professor in Public History and Cultural Heritage at Trinity College Dublin. Olwen Purdue is Professor of Irish Social History at Queen’s University Belfast. Jonathan Jeffrey Wright is Lecturer in British History at Maynooth University.

'The book provides valuable exemplars of urban history informed by different conceptualizations of space and place.' Richard Dennis, Victorian Studies

• Introduction - Olwen Purdue and Jonathan Wright The Royal Paragon; setting out suburban space in nineteenth century Dublin’ - Laura Johnstone Municipal Social Housing in Ireland 1866-1914 - Matthew Potter ‘The Donegalls’ Backside’: Donegall Place, the White Linen Hall and the development of space and place in nineteenth-century Belfast - Jonathan Wright The school and the home: constructing childhood and space in Dublin boarding schools - Mary Hatfield ‘High walls and locked doors’: contested spaces in Belfast workhouse 1880 – 1905 - Olwen Purdue Levelling up the lower deeps – rural and suburban spaces at an Edwardian asylum - Gillian Allmond Locating investigations into suicidal deaths in urban Ireland, 1901-1915 - Georgina Laragy Visualizing the City: Images of Ireland’s urban world, c. 1790 – 1820 - Mary Jane Boland Forging a Shared Identity: Irish Migrants and Steel Cities 1850-1900 - Oliver Betts