Rus in Urbe - Stillorgan and environs as an evolving Dublin suburb, c. 1860-1960

Although today the Stillorgan area is very clearly part of Dublin’s suburbs, this relationship really only began to emerge in the second half of the nineteenth century. Indeed, the modern-day concept of a suburb which we tend to take for granted only evolved from about this time onwards. The discussion that follows examines some of the significant phases in Stillorgan’s evolution as a suburb, from tentative beginnings linked to new transport links, through a phase of institutional growth, to state-of-the-art developments on either side of ‘the Emergency’ and ending with its possible status as the ultimate Irish suburb of the 1960s.