Fergal Tobin

A City Runs Through Them by Fergal Tobin explores how Dublin's twenty bridges, which span the tidal section of the River Liffey flowing through the city centre, have each contributed to its development across a millennium. These bridges were constructed over a period of a thousand years, enabling us to trace the history of Dublin by considering their chronological order....

An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges. Dublin started life on the south bank of the River Liffey and for six or seven centuries that is more or less where the town stayed. In all that time, there was only one bridge across the river. Then, suddenly, in the twenty...

The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity, and is full of fascinating detail... Exemplary. - Irish Independent For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that, over time,...