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An iconic view of Dublin's northside docks area in the 1980's, which comprises Ronan Sheehan's text and over 50 black and white photographs by Brendan Walsh. Widely regarded as one of the finest studies of Dublin during this period, The Heart Of The City has been taught in UCD and Trinity and to students of Urban Folklore. More poignant still in the aftermath of The Celtic Tiger, this is a remarkable portrait of a people and city so badly affected by the catastrophic collapse of employment on the docks in the 1960's and by irresponsible urban planning.
Ronan Sheehan was born in Dublin in 1953. He is novelist, short story writer, editor and essayist whose writings have been taught at University level in different subjects. In 1984 he was awarded The Rooney Prize for Irish literature. He is a non-practicing solicitor who occasionally acts as a consultant in copyright law.Photographer Brendan Walsh first found inspiration whilst assisting German-American photographer Evelyn Hofer in the 1960s, and in the decades that followed he began taking his own photographs around Dublin. Much of his work focused on the north city centre, an area where thousands of people were unemployed at that time due to modernizations in the shipping industry.
