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An Oral Folk History
For nearly 30 years, Kevin C. Kearns has been collecting the memories and recollections of Dubliners on tape. His previous books have focused on speci...
An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days
For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing ...
An Oral History
The first half of this century was the heyday of Dublin's vibrant and bustling traditional street life. Now in Dublin's Street Life and Lore, through ...
This number one bestseller from Ireland presents a fascinating, often heartbreaking look at life in the slums of Dublin from the early 19th century to...
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The Untold Story
On a gloriously starry night four bombs fell, the last and most devastating at precisely 2:05 a.m. on 31 May. There was a thunderous explosion and the...
Images of Vanishing Dublin
Social geographer Kevin C. Kearns has been exploring the urban landscape of inner-city Dublin for almost 30 years. His oral histories amount to a chro...
The Extraordinary Women of Dublin's Tenements
In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin's tenements. If it weren't for his...
In Search of the Old Masters
Mammies and Grannies in a Vanished City
Kevin Kearns, the acclaimed author of Dublin Tenement Life and other oral histories, has now prepared a masterly work of reminiscence, celebration and...
Ireland's Imperilled Architectural Heritage
"Traces the creation and evolution of Georgian Dublin as a city of unsurpassed beauty and gaiety, and documents the poverty and tenementation during t...
Ireland's Most Famed Garda
James Christopher Lugs Branigan was a garda who became a legend in his own lifetime. An advocate of tough justice, he was a law unto himself. Indeed, ...
The Big Freeze of 1947
The Irish winter of 1947 was the coldest and longest of the 20th Century. Kevin Kearns gets behind the headlines to reveal in tremendous detail the ha...
1932 - Ireland's Jazz Age
The 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a 'new era...
Dublin's Inner Urban Village
This classic oral history of a Dublin village was first published in 1989 to outstanding reviews. The oldest settled community on the north side of Du...