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D UBLIN S F UTURE
NEW VISIONS FOR IRELANDS CAPITAL CITY
Edited by Lorcan Sirr
19.95 (Stg17.95); ISBN 978-1-908308-12-2 Paperback; November 2011; 300 pages

Lorcan Sirr on Cities / Peter Sirr on Literature Gregory Bracken on the View from Without Noel J. Brady on Crossings / Dermot Lacey on Politics / Paul Donnelly on Theatre / Sen MacErlaine on Music James Pike on Housing / Patrick Daly on Energy Sinead Shannon on Ageing / Helen Carey on Visual Arts Ciaran Fallon on Movement /Gillian OBrien on Memory Conor Skehan on Economy / Deirdre Black on Landscape Katrina Goldstone on Ethnic Legacy / Ferdinand von Prondzynski on Education Whats good for Dublin is very good for Ireland. Dublins Future: New Visions for Irelands Capital City is a collection of essays which for the first time recognises that the future of the islands largest and most important urban conurbation is about more than the engineering of roads and the colouring of development plans, and that the success of Dublin will ensure the success of the nation. Music, literature, housing, ethnic minorities, theatre, energy, and much more all have their role to play in making and sustaining Dublin as firstly Irelands premier city and economic engine, and secondly as a place where people will want to live, visit, do business, be educated, create, spend, be cared for, be employed in, and in which to age. Contributors are recognised authorities in their fields. They cross sectors of age, private and public, profit and non-profit, and each and every one has something interesting to say about the future of Dublin. About the Editor Lorcan Sirr is a lecturer in the School of Real Estate and Construction Economics at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He has an MA in Literature from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and an MA and PhD from the School of Architecture and School of Planning and Landscape respectively, both at the University of Manchester in the UK. He has written for The Irish Times and Sunday Tribune, various journals and magazines, and provided commentary on housing, planning and related issues for RT, the BBC, and CBC in Canada. The Liffey Press, Ashbrook House, 10 Main Street, Raheny, Dublin 5 Tel: 01-8511458. Email: dgivens@theliffeypress.com. Web: www.theliffeypress.com