Nonfiction

Civilised by Beasts (Manchester University Press, October 2020)

This book offers a unique history of life in nineteenth-century Dublin through human-animal relationships.   I argue that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing. The book will interest anyone fascinated by the history of cities, the history of Dublin or the history of Ireland.

‘Juliana Adelman’s remarkable study of everyday animals in the development of the Irish capital provides an entirely fresh perspective on the troubled history of the Victorian city’, David Dickson, Trinity College Dublin

‘Juliana Adelman brilliantly re-imagines the social and commercial geographies of nineteenth-century Dublin’, Matthew Kelly, Northumbria University

‘Adelman’s approach is imaginative, well-paced, and accessible. The reader is not confronted with a heavy tome, but an impressive body of research skilfully crafted into a compelling narrative.’ Francis Kelly, Dublin Inquirer

Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Adelman and Agnew, eds)

This edited collection brings together essays from a variety of disciplinary perspectives all examining science in Ireland during the long nineteenth century. A comprehensive introduction also surveys the field.

Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

This book, based on research that I did for my PhD, is the first to take a broad view of science in nineteenth-century Ireland including science education and popular science. The book argues that various communities in Ireland mobilized science to meet diverse needs from the practical to the political, and the individual to the national. The book has recently be reprinted in paperback by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Click on the button below to see how to order it.