Book Review: The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation by David Dickson.

However, his approach is flexible enough to admit, by way of illustration, towns such as Ennis, Newry, Wexford and Carrick-on-Suir, as well as the small cathedral city of Armagh. In the largest, too, notably Dublin, but also Cork, Waterford and Belfast, suburban villages were favoured for the residences of the well-to-do, wishing both for easy access to urban amenities and for greater space and more salubrious air. David Dickson, The First Irish Cities: An Eighteenth-Century Transformation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021, 336 pp., £25 hardback) David Dickson focuses on ten Irish "cities". [Extracted from the article]