LMFM interviews Catherine on the occasion of Dublin Zoo Celebrating 190 years

Radio broadcast: Dublin Zoo celebrates being open for 190 years. Historian and Author Catherine De Courcy discusses the history of the zoo.

NewsCatherine de Courcy4 June 2021Dublin zoo, Dublin Zoo ElephantsComment

Review by Tim Brown of Dublin Zoo: an illustrated history, in Zoo Grapevine and International Zoo News. Winter 2020 – 2021.

“In 2009 the celebrated author Catherine de Courcy wrote a fairly weighty (356) history of the Dublin Zoo, a book I reviewed in a Zoo Grapevine of the same year. At the time, therefore, the zoo was only three years into its 2006 masterplan. …