TREVOR WHITE

with illustrations by PHILIP BARRETT

In this high-speed history, the reader is invited to march through time in the company of some expeditious Dubliners. Our story unfolds at an average speed of 6.4 years per page.

‘Dublin is a city of contradictions and survivals. Its biography is not the history of Ireland. Its character has been developed by successive invasions, by prosperity in the eighteenth century and decay in the nineteenth, and by political independence at the present day.

Through these phases can be traced its local pride and its conflicting loyalties, its amusements and its grievances; and as it is a city of talkers, due attention must be given to its gossip.’

Christine Longford