Author: John O'Donovan
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Category : Dublin (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: John O'Donovan
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Category : Donegal (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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John O'Donovan was appointed by the Ordnance Survey in 1830 to research the ancient forms of place names to be used on the O.S. maps. He wrote these letters from the field as he carried out his work. Donegal was the 5th county visited by O'Donovan. The letters contain excellent information on his work of identifying history behind the place names.

Author: John O'Donovan
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Category : Meath (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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"John O'Donovan's Letters are reports written from the field to the Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey, Thomas Larcom, discussing the English orthography of the names to be printed on the first edition of the Survey's maps. O'Donovan began work in Meath in July, 1836." -- back inside flap of dust jacket.

Author: John O'Donovan
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Cóilín Parsons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198767706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that the roots of Irish modernism lie in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity. Drawing on literary theory, studies of space, the history of cartography andIrish Studies, the book paints a picture of Irish writing deeply engaged in the representation of the multi-layered landscape, and will appeal to students of Irish literature, modernism, Irish history, mapshistory, and theories of space and place.

Author: Michael O'Flanagan
Publisher:
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Category : Dublin (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: John O'Donovan
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Cóilín Parsons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191080365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism lies in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity. The Ordnance Survey instituted a practice of depicting the country as modern, fragmented, alienated, and troubled, both diagnosing and representing a landscape burdened with the paradoxes of colonial modernity. Subsequent literature returns in varying ways, both imitative and combative, to the complex representational challenge that the Survey confronts and seeks to surmount. From a colonial mapping project to an engine of nationalist imagining, and finally a framework by which to evade the claims of the postcolonial nation, the Ordnance Survey was a central imaginative source of what makes Irish modernist writing both formally innovative and politically challenging. Drawing on literary theory, studies of space, the history of cartography, postcolonial theory, archive theory, and the field Irish Studies, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature paints a picture of Irish writing deeply engaged in the representation of a multi-layered landscape.

Author: IRELAND Ireland -1922. Ordnance Survey
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: John O'Donovan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903538012
Category : Donegal (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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