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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