The Ballast Office (Dublin Port), the Registry of Deeds and Marsh's Library were all founded in that year.

This study describes, primarily from a contemporary perspective and using contemporary sources, the events of 1707- these include the laws enacted and the issues debated by the Irish Parliament and the decisions of Dublin Corporation and the parish vestries of the Church of Ireland - these later two bodies had the most immediate impact on the daily lives of Dubliners.

The study also analyses a number of other cultural, social and economic events that would have constituted the topics of everyday conversation in 1707