Máire Ní Laoi Author

Howard Clarke, MRIA is Professor Emeritus of the School of History at University College Dublin. A member of the International Commission for the History of Towns, he has been actively involved with the Irish Historic Towns Atlas for many years as part of the editorial board and contributor to many of the project’s publications, most notably as author of Dublin, part 1, to 1610 (IHTA, no. 11, 2002). Máire Ní Laoi is a retired secondary school teacher who specialised in Irish and French. She grew up in Cork and has had a long family association with the city. She is a graduate of UCC and carried out much of the initial research for the Irish Historic Towns Atlas of Cork.