Infrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 /

edited by Gary A. Boyd and John McLaughlin.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Boyd, Gary A.
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Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: xviii, 213 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 x 25 cm

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ISBN:9781472446862
1472446860
Table of 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 A. 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 father 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
Data : clouds and precipitation / John McLaughlin.