Introduction - Olwen Purdue and Jonathan Wright The Royal Paragon; setting out suburban space in nineteenth century Dublin’ - Laura Johnstone Municipal Social Housing in Ireland 1866-1914 - Matthew Potter ‘The Donegalls’ Backside’: Donegall Place, the White Linen Hall and the development of space and place in nineteenth-century Belfast - Jonathan Wright The school and the home: constructing childhood and space in Dublin boarding schools - Mary Hatfield ‘High walls and locked doors’: contested spaces in Belfast workhouse 1880 – 1905 - Olwen Purdue Levelling up the lower deeps – rural and suburban spaces at an Edwardian asylum - Gillian Allmond Locating investigations into suicidal deaths in urban Ireland, 1901-1915 - Georgina Laragy Visualizing the City: Images of Ireland’s urban world, c. 1790 – 1820 - Mary Jane Boland Forging a Shared Identity: Irish Migrants and Steel Cities 1850-1900 - Oliver Betts