Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class

Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner''s Court and on Dr Louis A. Bryne''s first two years in office. Wrapping itself around the 1901 census, the study uses gender, power, and blame as analytical frameworks to examine what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban living from lifecycle and class perspectives. Coroners'' inquests are a comb...