Grada Diarmuid O: Georgian Dublin [2015] hardback LANGU And the sleeping women are

And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether

One night fifteen-year-old Lina

and Australia

is just looking for a place to belong

and scramble to return for one impossible final stand

Grada Diarmuid O: Georgian Dublin [2015] hardback LANGU And the sleeping women areIt is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. However, Diarmuid O Grada now shows us a Dublin quite unlike that depicted in the conventional histories of grand red brick squares and elegant drawing rooms. Phenomenal population growth was forced on a place where local government, the workshops and the streets themselves had changed little since medieval times. In the course of the century the number of Dubliners trebled