Acknowledgments v Maps viii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Dublin Bay's Granite Coast 7 From Dún to Dunleary 14 Martello Towers and the Napoleonic Threat 18 Chapter 2: The Victorian Harbour - A Masterpiece in Stone 24 From Dunleary to Kingstown 24 The Kingstown Harbour Master 41 The Lifeboat Service 43 Harbour Architecture 46 Lost Activities of Dún Laoghaire Harbour 51 The Irish Lights 52 The Harbour Company 55 Chapter 3: Kingstown: Infant City of the Steam Age 56 Royal Visit 57 Mail and Passenger Services 59 The Dublin-to-Kingstown Railway 66 Chapter 4: Birth of a Seaport Town 70 Housebuilding and the Victorian Style 70 Development of the New Town 80 Churches 85 Chapter 5: An Elegant Victorian Watering Place 94 Yachting and Sailing 94 Chapter 6: Seafront Houses and Terraces: 1840-1860 109 Residential Kingstown - The Victorian Taste 114 Chapter 7: Sandycove and Bullock 123 Sandycove's Rocky Shoreline 123 Residential Sandycove 125 The Forty Foot 129 Bullock Harbour 130 Bullock Castle 132 Castle Park and Other Houses 136 Chapter 8: Dalkey - A Sense of the Picturesque 139 Dalkey Island 143 The King of Dalkey 146 Medieval Dalkey 146 Dalkey Quarry 151 Eighteenth-century Dalkey 153 Chapter 9: Nineteenth-century Dalkey - the Coastline 156 Sorrento Terrace 164 The Vico Road 167 Dalkey Hill 169 The Railway 172 Chapter 10: Society and Social Change 174 Terraces and Squares: Dún Laoghaire in the 1860s 174 The Royal Marine Hotel 177 Red-brick Decades 180 Charity and Social Change 186 Chapter 11: Civic Dún Laoghaire 192 Township Administration 192 Public Buildings: 1870-1900 196 Chapter 12: Culture and Amenity in Dún Laoghaire 209 Sport in Dún Laoghaire 217 Transport 218 The Coal Trade 222 Gas, Light and Telephone 225 Chapter 13: Modern Times 227 Mid-Twentieth Century 227 The Shopping Environment 229 Recent Times 232 Select Bibliography and Further Reading 240 Index 242.