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The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey
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Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830
Ireland's rich history of manuscript and printed maps is testament to the information that earlier generations sought from the environment around them. Although we are accustomed to seeing...
Author/Editor:
Finnian Ó Cionnaith
Mapping, measurement and metropolis
How land surveyors shaped eighteenth-century Dublin
This comprehensively illustrated book charts the exceptional impact that a small group of land surveyors had on the development of Dublin city during the eighteenth century. Written with...
Author/Editor:
Finnian Ó Cionnaith
Exercise of authority
Surveyor Thomas Owen and the paving, cleansing and lighting of Georgian Dublin
The Dublin Paving Board (founded 1744) was a controversial organization that attempted to bring order to Dublin’s streets during the late eighteenth century. Granted sweeping powers by the...
Author/Editor:
Finnian Ó Cionnaith
The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland
by Arthur Gibney
This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a...
Author/Editor:
Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors
The early residential buildings of Trinity College Dublin
Architecture, financing, people
This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential ranges of the early eighteenth century. Among all...
Author/Editor:
R.A. Somerville
The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin
A model of Victorian craftsmanship
This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard which it set in the use of Irish decorative...
Author/Editor:
Christine Casey & Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, editors
Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600
The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for making sense of medieval...
Author/Editor:
Tadhg O'Keeffe
Medieval ecclesiastical buildings in Ireland, 1789–1915
Building on the past
This is the first full-length study of the perception and treatment of Gothic architecture in Ireland in the period between 1789 and 1915. It considers three main...
Author/Editor:
Niamh NicGhabhann
A catalogue of the maps of the estates of the Archbishops of Dublin, 1654–1850
The manuscript maps of the estates of the archbishops of Dublin are rare survivals for most of the Church of Ireland's cartographical collections were destroyed in the fire...
Author/Editor:
Raymond Refaussé & Mary Clark
Dublin from 1970 to 1990
The City Transformed
Dublin’s footprint grew steadily during the 1970s with housing transforming the landscape of the west of the city, especially in Tallaght, Clondalkin and Blanchardstown. It was a time...
Author/Editor:
Joseph Brady
Dublin, 1910–1940
Shaping the city and suburbs
Between 1910 and 1940 Dublin's suburbs grew considerably. For the first time, planned suburbanization of the working classes became a stated policy, with new and idealistic schemes such...
Author/Editor:
Ruth McManus
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