History on Your Doorstep
Since 2017, the Dublin City Historians in Residence have worked in neighbourhoods across Dublin City to encourage local people to engage with history, and to promote its sources and discussion, especially the historical collections in Dublin City Library & Archive. They have also produced bite-size history books documenting key moments in Irish history – a series titled 'History on Your Doorstep'.
Dublin City’s dedicated Historians in Residence are Cormac Moore, Mary Muldowney, Catherine Scuffil, Katie Blackwood, Elizabeth Kehoe and Historian in Residence for Children Dervilia Roche. The programme is created by Dublin City Libraries and is delivered in partnership with Dublin City Council Culture Company.
Each of the History on Your Doorstep books (Vol 1-7) are available as an eBook from Borrowbox and to download as a PDF below.
Volume 1 (PDF) features chapters on suffragettes, the public housing architect Herbert Simms, the Monica Roberts collection of letters from First World War soldiers, a history of Edge Hardware in Fairview, Dublin railway workers, and William Spence and Sons foundry/engineering works on Cork Street.
Volume 2 (PDF) includes chapters on St. Ultan’s hospital, the piper Seamus Ennis, Dublin Corporation and the War of Independence, a history of Lemon’s Sweets, disappearing workplaces of Dublin, and housing in the Liberties.
Volume 3 (PDF) is a commemorative edition marking the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, with five chapters outlining the events of this terrible day in Dublin’s history.
Volume 4 (PDF) the five chapters in this volume focus on different aspects of the city’s history.
Volume 5 (PDF) reflects the research conducted by the four Historians in Residence and the Historian in Residence for Children into the events of the Irish Civil War.
Volume 6 (PDF) Six stories of Dublin history written by the Dublin City Council Historians in Residence and the Historian in Residence for Children, and Dublin City Council Culture Company tour guide Alvean Jones.
History On Your Doorstep Vol 7 will be launched on Wednesday 13 November in City Hall. The book is written / edited by Katie Blackwood and Cormac Moore, Dublin City Historians in Residence.
Download a copy of History on your Doorstep Vol 7 (PDF 6.52)
