Dublin Hanged: Crime, Law Enforcement and Punishment in Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin.
Author: HENRY, Brian.
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1994. 222 pages. Paperback.
Behind the glorious facade of Georgian Dublin lurked a massive crime problem. In the late eighteenth century, as the wealth of the city increased, so too did burglary and violent crime. The Hibernian Journal reported in 1780 that ‘murder in this city has become so common, that it has lost all its horrors’. The authorities reacted to this crime epidemic by sentencing hundreds of convicted felons to death. Hundreds more were transported abroad. Dublin Hanged traces the source of the problem to the first wave of crimes and it follows up on the solution to the last wave of hangings.
‘Dublin Hanged presents a vivid picture of daily life in the Dublin of 200 years ago, a sharp corrective to visions of Georgian grace and charm’ Irish Times.
‘Henry writes of the city’s seething criminality and the law’s frequent unfairness in a book of considerable and gruesomely picturesque detail’ Sunday Independent.
‘A very interesting account of crime, police, courts, and punishments. There are fascinating descriptions of public hangings, which drew huge, often angry, crowds. This well-documented and well-written volume will be valued by general and academic readers, historians and social scientists alike’ Choice.
‘A detailed and well-written study of the brutal and desperate responses to the Dublin crime wave of the late eighteenth century. Very interesting on the extent of industrial violence’ Archives.
ISBN: 071652614X
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