Sunday Miscellany: Tracing a family's Dublin Docklands roots in maps and stories...

Tracing a family's Dublin Docklands roots in maps and stories... For this Sunday Miscellany Architecture Special, listen to Species of City, by Éimear Arthur above.

A few years ago, when trying to buy a house, I focused my search on Dublin's north inner city. I viewed homes on Bayview Avenue, Hawthorn Terrace, St Mary’s Road. Despite stretching my budget as far as I could, I was outbid for a beautiful Victorian on St Brigid’s Avenue. But it was when I visited a two-up, two-down on Emerald Street that my gran became really interested. 'That’s our area,’ she said.

Listen back to all of the pieces in this special edition of Sunday Miscellany here