Skeletal remains found during construction at Victorian Fruit and Vegetable Market
The bones are thought to come from the major medieval monastery at St Mary’s Abbey, and further excavation works are ongoing.
In an era that conjures up Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, Campbell worked in diving bells and heavy, spacesuit-like diving gear.
In this new book, animal exploitation is used as a lens to reflect the changing social, cultural and ideological fabric of the city of Dublin as it moved towards a new model of urban civilisation in the nineteenth century.