{"product_id":"the-shortest-history-of-dublin-by-gillian-obrien","title":"The Shortest History of Dublin by Gillian O'Brien (PREORDER)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"form-group col-lg-12 col-md-12 paddeql nomargin\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"book-detail-text-formating\"\u003eDublin is a city steeped in its past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"form-group col-lg-12 col-md-12 paddeql nomargin\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"book-detail-text-formating\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"form-group col-lg-12 col-md-12 paddeql nomargin\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"book-detail-text-formating\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDublin has never been a place easily reduced to a single story. Developed as a Viking settlement, it became the difficult second city of the British Empire – a colonial capital that served empire rather than nation. For centuries it strained to rival London; later it struggled to define itself apart from it. Yet today it stands as an increasingly multicultural global city with a rich literary past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shortest History of Dublin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores that restless inheritance – the ways in which Dublin remembers, forgets and remakes itself. It shows how Dublin's truest identity endures in the words of its greatest writers, from the likes of Joyce and Yeats to modern authors Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Sebastian Barry and Sally Rooney. And that the challenge of this city of music, writing, architecture and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ecraic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is to balance change with character, growth with memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Black Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44548802347143,"sku":"9781760645618","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0313\/7211\/6103\/files\/TheShortestHistoryofDublin_online.jpg?v=1777510472","url":"https:\/\/shop.schwartzbooks.com.au\/products\/the-shortest-history-of-dublin-by-gillian-obrien","provider":"Schwartz Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}