David Dickson
Died
May 24, 2008
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Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
13 editions
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2014
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Arctic Ireland: the Extraordinary Story of the Great Frost and Famine of 1740-41
2 editions
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1997
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The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation
3 editions
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published
2021
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New Foundations: Ireland 1660 - 1800
5 editions
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published
1987
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Social Skills in Interpersonal Communication
9 editions
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published
1981
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The United Irishmen: Republicanism, and Rebellion
3 editions
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published
1992
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The New Politics of Science
3 editions
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1984
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The Elder and His Work
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Sermons on Jeremiah's Lamentations
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Matthew
2 editions
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1981
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“I have taken all my good deeds and all my bad deeds, and cast them … in a heap before the Lord, and fled from both, and betaken myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, and in him I have sweet peace!”
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“Thanks to the near total absence of women among early Norse invaders, genetic and probably cultural mixing was taking place from the ninth century onwards, albeit the result initially of slavery and coercion; the gradual shift in focus in religious practice from Thor to the Christian deity was probably achieved through the influence of female partners. But we now have scientific evidence that Norse Dublin had been a hybrid mix, and that despite the huge changes in store it would remain so, a place where Norse and French, Irish, Welsh and the Saxon dialects of England would all be regularly heard on the street.19”
― Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
― Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
“John Clyn, the contemporary Franciscan chronicler based in Kilkenny, claimed that during the four months after the plague pandemic reached Dublin and Drogheda in August 1348, 14,000 died in Dublin alone (‘xiiii milia hominum mortui sunt’), and that ‘ipsas civitates Dubliniam et Drovhda fere destruxit et vastavit incolis et hominibus’ (Dublin and Drogheda were almost destroyed and emptied of inhabitants and men). Both the archbishop and the mayor were among its victims.30”
― Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
― Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
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