Little Republics: The Story of Bungalow Bliss
Fascinating and poignant. It made me see the familiar architecture of the Irish countryside with utterly new eyes and unexpected tenderness.
– Sara Baume
PRESS
... Little Republics – daringly, convincingly – places the once-derided rural bungalow at the centre of Irish modernity
– Karl Whitney, The Irish Times
...thoughtful, insightful, important ...
[Little Republics] provides gentle questions about major unexplored assumptions about modern Irish society.
– Conor Skehan, The Sunday Independent
... terrific … Duncan brings a poet-engineer’s eye to the houses and fleshes out the fascinating socio-economic background, the circumstances which gave rise to the bungalow boom
– Michael Moynihan, Irish Examiner
A beautiful book … to read something so hopeful about housing was a real joy
– Donal Fallon, author of Three Castles Burning
... accessible and fascinating
– Fergal Lenihan, The Currency
... equally sensitive to the psychical as to the physical properties of space … Little Republics shows the Irish people's expressed desire to choose the form and manner of their own habitation, a fact too often ignored in the current discourse around housing
– Totally Dublin
Published by The Lilliput Press in October 2022
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Design by Daly Lyon
Supported by:
The Arts Council
The Irish Architectural Archive
Askeaton Contemporary Arts
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