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A city steeped in its own past, long a breeding ground for history's greatest writers and poets, Dublin has never been a place easily reduced to a single story. First developed as a Viking settlement, Dublin 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 as separate from it. Today, it stands as an increasingly multicultural global city with a rich literary past (so much so that it was named a UNESCO City of Literature), an endlessly popular travel destination, and site of an esteemed university drawing international students from around the world.

The Shortest History of Dublin explores the city's contradictory nature--and the ways in which Dublin remembers, forgets, and remakes itself. It shows how Dublin's truest identity endures in the words of its acclaimed writers, from the likes of Joyce and Yeats to modern authors Roddy Doyle, Tana French, and Sally Rooney. It also traces the challenges of a city whose music, writing, architecture, and craic must balance evolution and change in a shifting global and political scene.

Gillian O'Brien chronicles the evolution of Ireland's capital city by tracing its accomplishments and its downfalls, its relationship with rigid religion and volatile politics, and its contributions to culture, from Guinness to the Book of Kells. With narrative rigor and a comprehensive approach, this Shortest History examines Dublin from a variety of perspectives to paint a portrait of a nation whose rich legacy is still evolving.