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Infrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 / edited by Gary A. Boyd and John McLaughlin.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Surrey : Ashgate, [2015]Description: xviii, 213 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 x 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781472446862 (hardback) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.9415 23
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 I52 2015
Contents:
Negation : the General Post Office and a collapsing of time / Gary A. Boyd -- Power : are you getting the light? Ardnacrusha, the rural electrification scheme and illuminating Ireland's peripheries / Gareth Doherty -- Health : sanatoria and the search for an Irish Paimio / Ellen Rowley -- Bus transportation - Córas Iompair Éireann and Michael Scott / Sarah Lappin and Una Walker -- Media : America at home - the RTÉ television centre / Kevin Donovan -- Aviation : into the West - Rineanna and the jumbo jet / Anna Ryan -- Education : 'my factor has got a tractor shed like this' - the Doyles, the concrete frame and the democratisation of education / Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin -- Telecommunications : infrastructural adhocism / Brian Ward -- Roads : 'we must have motorways'. Ireland, the highway and modernity / Denis Linehan -- Precipitation : clouds, chips and the city / John McLaughlin.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Loanable Book Library Irish Reserve 720.9415 INF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000412360

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Negation : the General Post Office and a collapsing of time / Gary A. Boyd -- Power : are you getting the light? Ardnacrusha, the rural electrification scheme and illuminating Ireland's peripheries / Gareth Doherty -- Health : sanatoria and the search for an Irish Paimio / Ellen Rowley -- Bus transportation - Córas Iompair Éireann and Michael Scott / Sarah Lappin and Una Walker -- Media : America at home - the RTÉ television centre / Kevin Donovan -- Aviation : into the West - Rineanna and the jumbo jet / Anna Ryan -- Education : 'my factor has got a tractor shed like this' - the Doyles, the concrete frame and the democratisation of education / Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin -- Telecommunications : infrastructural adhocism / Brian Ward -- Roads : 'we must have motorways'. Ireland, the highway and modernity / Denis Linehan -- Precipitation : clouds, chips and the city / John McLaughlin.

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