Infrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gary A. Boyd and John McLaughlin.
• Editors: Boyd, Gary A
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 720.94150904; ARCHITECTURE / Criticism; 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
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351927499; 1351927493
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.