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An urban renaissance? Irish cities in the 18th century Building controls and street planning were slower to arrive in Irish cities than in estate towns or villages about 5 hours ago   High up on the façade of Heuston Station are three coats of arms representing the cities of Dublin, Cork and Limerick. That is probably the only place where the civic symbols of what were once the country’s three largest cities are displayed together. We tend not to think about Irish cities as a group. They never enjoyed collective status like, say, the royal burghs of Scotland. They have hardly ever displa...

<strong>Other Lives</strong>: History professor who studied, and wrote about, the pre-modern British town