Infrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 / edited by Gary A. Boyd and John McLaughlin.
Published / Created:
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015.
Physical Description:
213 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Terms:
Architecture and society -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century. | Architecture and society -- Ireland -- History -- 21st century. | Infrastructure (Economics) -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century. | Infrastructure (Economics) -- Ireland -- History -- 21st century. | Architecture and society. | Infrastructure (Economics) | Ireland.
Form/Genre:
History.
Contributors:
Boyd, Gary A., editor. | McLaughlin, John, editor.