Event description RSAI TALK: Grandeur and decline: Henrietta Street and the making of Dublin’s Tenements 1800–1900 by Dr Timothy Murtagh About this event We are delighted to invite you to our next talk, which will take place on Monday 10 May at 7.30pm via ZOOM. Titled Grandeur and decline: Henrietta Street and the making of Dublin’s Tenements 1800–1900, it will be delivered by Dr Tim Murtagh. Dr Tim Murtagh is an expert on the history of Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, whose interests include urban, social and transnational histories. Tim’s doctoral work concerned the workers of Dublin and Belfast in the late eighteenth century, particularly the political activities of working-class radicals. A book based on his doctoral work will appear in 2022 with Liverpool University Press, entitled Apprenticeship to Revolution: Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1770-1820. After being awarded his PhD by Trinity College in 2015, Tim was then appointed the Irish Government Scholar to Hertford College, Oxford in 2015-2016, where he was supervised by Prof Roy Foster. Dr Murtagh then served as a historical consultant to Dublin City Council, carrying out research for the creation of the Dublin Tenement Museum at No 14 Henrietta Street. This research has formed the basis for Dr Murtagh’s first book, Spectral Mansions: the making of a Dublin tenement, which will appear later this year with Four Courts Press. In 2019, Dr Murtagh worked as an assistant to Prof Patrick Geoghegan, helping to research the official history of the Trinity College Historical Society to commemorate its 250th anniversary. This was eventually published by Prof Geoghegan as The College Historical Society: Oratory and Debate, 1770-2020 (Lilliput, 2020). Working with Profs David Dickson and Breandán Mac Suibhne, Tim is the co-editor of a collection of emigrant letters between Baltimore and Londonderry dating from the early nineteenth century, a collection which will appear with the Irish Manuscripts Commission in 2022. Since April 2020, he has been a Beyond 2022 research fellow, based at PRONI.