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RSAI TALK: Grandeur and decline: Henrietta Street and the making of Dublin’s Tenements 1800–1900 by Dr Timothy Murtagh About this event
We are delighted to invite you to our next talk, which will take place on Monday 10 May at 7.30pm via ZOOM. Titled Grandeur and decline: Henrietta Street and the making of Dublin’s Tenements 1800–1900, it will be delivered by Dr Tim Murtagh.
Dr Tim Murtagh is an expert on the history of Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, whose interests include urban, social and transnational histories. Tim’s doctoral work concerned the workers of Dublin and Belfast in the late eighteenth century, particularly the political activities of working-class radicals. A book based on his doctoral work will appear in 2022 with Liverpool University Press, entitled Apprenticeship to Revolution: Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1770-1820. After being awarded his PhD by Trinity College in 2015, Tim was then appointed