Dublin - A Travellers' Companion

In this companion over a thousand years of Dublin's history, restless and violent, elegant, theatrical and intellectual, come splendidly to life. The book recreates the city's vanished past through letters, diaries, memoirs, history, literature and newspapers written from the 12th century onwards. The selections are grouped around places and buildings that can still be visited, and they powerfully evoke the crises and dramas of the past...