Professor Jacqueline Hill on William Carleton’s Dublin.
Jacqueline Hill is Professor of History at NUI Maynooth. She has contributed articles to a number of academic publications such as Irish Historical Studies and has worked as Principal Investigator for Irish History Online (www.irishhistoryonline.ie). She has edited a number of books, including A New History of Ireland vii: Ireland 1921-1984 (2003). Dr Hill’s essays have appeared in numerous journals, many of them dealing with Dublin of the 17th, 18th and 19th Century. Her discussion of ‘Religion, trade and politics in Dublin, 1798-1848’, appeared in Cities and Merchants 1500-1900 (TCD 1986). She has also written about the decline of the Protestant ascendancy,1800-1930, in the Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (2004).
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