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Frank Cullen is an editorial assistant with the Irish Historic Towns Atlas project in the Royal Irish Academy. He completed his PhD in history (Maynooth University, 2005) with a thesis entitled âLocal government and the management of urban space: a comparative study of Belfast and Dublin, 1830â1922â. He is the author of Dublin 1847:city of the Ordnance Survey (2015).