Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
©2015

Description:

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

Notes:
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 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 facther 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.

Summary:

At the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, with the lack any significant industry, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the new nation, just as the adoption of international style modernism in architecture was perceived as a way to escape the colonial past. It provides critical insights and narratives on what is a complex and hitherto overlooked landscape, one which is often as much international as it is Irish.

ISBN:

9781472446862 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1472446860 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and society Ireland History 20th century.
Architecture and society Ireland History 21st century.
Infrastructure (Economics) Ireland History 20th century.
Infrastructure (Economics) Ireland History 21th century.
Architecture et société Irlande Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Irlande Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture and society
Infrastructure (Economics)
Arkitektur.
Modernism (arkitektur)
Infrastruktur.
Ireland

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Boyd, Gary A., editor.
McLaughlin, John (Architect), editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290557
Call No.: BIB 233607
Status: Available