Author: Andrew Bonar Law
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612-1850
Author: Andrew Bonar Law
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature
Author: Cóilín Parsons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191080365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191080365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Ortelius Atlas Maps
Author: M Van Den Broecke
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004613390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004613390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
A History of Settlement in Ireland
Author: Terry Barry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134674627
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A History of Settlement in Ireland provides a stimulating and thought-provoking overview of the settlement history of Ireland from prehistory to the present day. Particular attention is paid to the issues of settlement change and distribution within the contexts of: * environment * demography * culture. The collection goes further by setting the agenda for future research in this rapidly expanding area of academic interest. This volume will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the archaeology, history and social geography of Ireland.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134674627
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A History of Settlement in Ireland provides a stimulating and thought-provoking overview of the settlement history of Ireland from prehistory to the present day. Particular attention is paid to the issues of settlement change and distribution within the contexts of: * environment * demography * culture. The collection goes further by setting the agenda for future research in this rapidly expanding area of academic interest. This volume will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the archaeology, history and social geography of Ireland.
Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland
Author: B. Klein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230598110
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space, offering a fresh analysis of the mental and material mapping of early modern England and Ireland. Combining cartographic history with critical cultural studies and literary analysis, it examines the construction of social and political space in maps, in cosmography and geography, in historical and political writing, and in the literary works of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser and Drayton.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230598110
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact of cartography on the changing cultural meanings of space, offering a fresh analysis of the mental and material mapping of early modern England and Ireland. Combining cartographic history with critical cultural studies and literary analysis, it examines the construction of social and political space in maps, in cosmography and geography, in historical and political writing, and in the literary works of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser and Drayton.
Maps and Map-making in Local History
Author: Jacinta Prunty
Publisher: Four Courts Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book introduces the local history practitioner to the world of maps - the special character (and appeal) of maps as an historical source, why they are invaluable in local history research, and questions that must be asked of them. The historical background to map creation in Ireland is outlined, with details on the major classes of cartographic and associated material and the repositories wherein they may be found. The Plantation series, travel and county maps, maps as part of published reports and journals, military mapping, estate and property mapping, and maritime maps, historic Ordnance Survey and Valuation Office maps, and more recent OS mapping, including the 1:50,000 Discovery series, are discussed. A section on essential map reading skills, including matters of scale, representation and accuracy, will help equip the researcher to explore this coded world. Step-by-step guidance for starting out to locate maps relevant to one's study area is provided. Case studies of working with maps in local history are offered as practical examples of what can be done, and guidelines for map-making are also included.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book introduces the local history practitioner to the world of maps - the special character (and appeal) of maps as an historical source, why they are invaluable in local history research, and questions that must be asked of them. The historical background to map creation in Ireland is outlined, with details on the major classes of cartographic and associated material and the repositories wherein they may be found. The Plantation series, travel and county maps, maps as part of published reports and journals, military mapping, estate and property mapping, and maritime maps, historic Ordnance Survey and Valuation Office maps, and more recent OS mapping, including the 1:50,000 Discovery series, are discussed. A section on essential map reading skills, including matters of scale, representation and accuracy, will help equip the researcher to explore this coded world. Step-by-step guidance for starting out to locate maps relevant to one's study area is provided. Case studies of working with maps in local history are offered as practical examples of what can be done, and guidelines for map-making are also included.
Surveying Ireland's Past
Author: Howard B. Clarke
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
"Collaboration and co-operation being keynotes of Anngret Simms's career, an impressive number of her colleagues and former students have joined together in a common enterprise to honour her contribution to academic life. The subject matter extends over the last two millennia and the authors range across the disciplines of archaeology, history and historical geography in particular. The contributors to this volume represent a substantial cross-section of the leading practitioners in their respective fields. The book contains over 130 figures and plates, along with tabulated material. Ireland's past, in all its diversity and richness, is here surveyed in a scholarly yet accessible way."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
"Collaboration and co-operation being keynotes of Anngret Simms's career, an impressive number of her colleagues and former students have joined together in a common enterprise to honour her contribution to academic life. The subject matter extends over the last two millennia and the authors range across the disciplines of archaeology, history and historical geography in particular. The contributors to this volume represent a substantial cross-section of the leading practitioners in their respective fields. The book contains over 130 figures and plates, along with tabulated material. Ireland's past, in all its diversity and richness, is here surveyed in a scholarly yet accessible way."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Shapes of Ireland
Author: John Harwood Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island
Author: Barbara Freitag
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines its impact on English maritime exploration and literature. It investigates the Gaelicization process that the island underwent in nineteenth century and how it became associated with St Brendan. Finally, it pursues the Brasil Island trope in modern literature, the arts and popular culture.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines its impact on English maritime exploration and literature. It investigates the Gaelicization process that the island underwent in nineteenth century and how it became associated with St Brendan. Finally, it pursues the Brasil Island trope in modern literature, the arts and popular culture.
An Leabharlann
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description