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than Professor McDowell

while casting new light on the commercial development of Dublin during the last two hundred years

This is his first book

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personalities that do not quite fit in: Michael

The geography of the valley is varied and ever-changing

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who was raised at Maidenhall in County Kilkenny by the historian and essayist Hubert Butler and his wife Peggy

in Dublin he spent his childhood in Athy

by an American academic

Irish civil servants

and the enclosure of Phoenix Park that surrounds it