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History of the City of Dublin Research Group
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The History of the City of Dublin Research Group hosted their first event on 5 November 2009:
 ‘Leaders of the City? The Dublin mayoralty over Five Centuries’.
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The men elected to be mayor of Dublin became the chief magistrate and first citizen of the city for a year. An examination of those who held the mayoralty and of the debates and controversies surrounding office can reveal a great deal about the shifting make-up of the urban community and the ever-changing politics of the city. Focusing on four periods - 1500-1640, 1641-1800, 1801-1900 and 1901-2000. The symposium will examine how mayors could be the harbingers of reform or of corruption, and it will seek to determine how much leadership the holders of the office actually gave over these centuries. In the light of current calls for the office of Dublin lord mayor to become a directly elected post, a review of the highs and lows of the office may have a particular relevance.
 The symposium was opened by by Councillor Emer Costello, lord mayor
of Dublin, had over 90 attendees and 16 participants. The event was
free to attend and was hosted in conjunction with Dublin City Library
and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
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