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Frank Cullen

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Name:	Frank Cullen
Position:	Doctoral Fellow NIRSA
Department:	Modern History
Organisation:	NUIM Maynooth
Location:	Off Campus
E-mail:	francis.j.cullen@nuim.ie
Telephone:	++ 353 1 4670555
Research Interests:	Nineteenth-century urban history. History of transport and communications during the ages of steam and ectricity

 

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Projects

Project Title:	Local government and the management of urban space: a comparative study of Belfast and Dublin, 1840-1922
Supervisor:	Dr. Jacinta Prunty
Project Abstract:	This project examines the provision and development of urban infrastructure in the nineteenth-century city. The two cities of Belfast and Dublin are examined against one another, and against the backdrop of two great periods in social history: the steam age and the age of electricity. Areas examined include port and rail development, sanitary engineering, and telegraph and telephone communication. Private enterprise paid for much of this infrastructure in the early years of the century which witnessed great progress, as the century closed the State had taken over as the main provider. The role of public versus private enterprise in opening up communication networks throughout the city therefore provides the core issue for this thesis. This research is funded by NIRSA.

 

Publications

• Cleansing rural Dublin: public health and housing initiatives in the South Dublin Poor Law Union, 1880-1920 (Irish Academic Press, 2001)

Presentations

• ‘Reshaping the city: the railway impact in Belfast and Dublin, 1834-1922’, Department of Modern History, NUI Maynooth, Research Seminar, 20 November 2003
  

• ‘Shaping the city: the railway impact in Belfast and Dublin, 1840-1922’, Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Conference, University of Ulster, Coleraine, 15 November 2003
  

• ‘Networking the city and beyond’, Irish Geography Postgraduate Training Consortium, Bellinter House, January 2003