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Author : Andy Bielenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056938601
This collection of scholarly essays provides a background to the figures involved in the Shannon Scheme and gives a detailed historical assessment of the scheme, which transformed the east Clare landscape.
Author : Sorcha O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 1911024671
The visual story of the greatest industrial initiative of the fledgling Irish Free State: the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme. Lavishly designed, the book examines the construction of this mammoth of modern ingenuity and its symbolic power during the dawn of electrical technology in Ireland.
Author : Andy Bielenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026131198
This collection of scholarly essays provides a background to the figures involved in the Shannon Scheme and gives a detailed historical assessment of the scheme, which transformed the east Clare landscape.
Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121888254
High Tension lends an entirely different dimension to the history of the great hydro-electric Shannon Scheme of 1925-1929. Hitherto the story has been told from an engineering viewpoint. Now historian Michael McCarthy brings new perspectives to bear on the Irish Free State's most audacious construction project at Ardnacrusha. How did the German and Irish workforces get on? What was life like for the 5000-odd navvies and their families, many of them living in barns and pigsties along the nine-mile stretch of the 'Irish Klondyke'? How did the local farmers and householders in Clare and Limerick cope with the massive explosions and disruptions? How did those who lost homes, lands, livelihoods and loved ones (53 died and hundreds were injured during construction) cope with the trauma and hardship? The guns of the Civil War were scarcely silenced when the Irish government embarked on this huge undertaking, with vision and scarce resources. High Tension details the interdepartmental rivalry among civil servants, the struggles with the labour movement and strong-arm tactics of Joe McGrath, the dogfights with vested interest groups and overburdened local services, and the compensation battles that dragged on years after the Scheme opened. On the 75th anniversary of that opening it seems fitting to tell for the first time this fascinating story.
Author : Niall Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635574210
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLE A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed. The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. This is the story of all that was to follow: Christy's long-lost love and why he had come to Faha, Noel's own experiences falling in and out of love, and the endlessly postponed arrival of electricity--a development that, once complete, would leave behind a world that had not changed for centuries. Niall Williams' latest novel is an intricately observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and its traditions, its paradoxes and its inanities, its failures and its triumphs. Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, This Is Happiness is about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they write and rewrite us.
Author : Dessie Doyle,Brian Drummond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843512734
This is the story of the men, women and families who built the Erne hydroelectric scheme. The Erne development (1946-55) was second in size only to the famous Shannon scheme (1922-29), yet has for years been overlooked in terms of its scale, impact and contribution to Ireland's industrial heritage. The history of the project is fascinating: from the relationship that developed between the new Irish Free State and the Stormont government in the planning of the scheme to the enormous scale of the construction, its story had all but disappeared. The Erne Hydroelectric Scheme seeks to redress the balance and to chronicle this symbol of the potential of the new state and its citizens. Over ten years, more than a thousand men blasted the rocks of Longford and Fermanagh to carve out two enormous dams that redirected the mighty River Erne and changed the landscape forever. Here are tales of its engineers, foremen, carpenters and electricians: the Irish, the Swedes, the Germans and Maltese workers who flocked to the area to work, creating an unprecedented economic boom and wide-reaching demographic consequences. Going beyond the concrete, steel and megawatts, the authors Dessie Doyle and Brian Drummond - both experienced local historians - tell the human story at the heart of the scheme. As the Donegal Vindicator stated: 'From the humblest manual labourer to the highest-rated civil engineers in the country, each played a part.' The memories, myths and folklore that have become part of the Erne project are as important as the politics and engineering that brought it about. Dessie Doyle and Brian Drummond are natives of Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. Living in an area with a rich local heritage, they have always been fascinated by its history. They have previously published Hugh Allingham - Selected Works. The Erne Hydroelectric Scheme is their first original work.
Author : Maurice Manning,Electricity Supply Board (Ireland),Moore McDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electric industries
ISBN : UOM:39015048485828
Author : Michael J. Shiel
Publisher : Dublin : O'Brien Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : UOM:39015058581441
Author : Aiveen Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1848891075
To many people there is something special about the Shannon, a state of mind that comes from loving the river and losing yourself on, or near it. Aiveen Cooper's discursive writing weaves history, science, archeology, and much else.
Author : Fintan O'Toole,Catherine Marshall,Eibhear Walshe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 1908996927
The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 artworks to narrate a history of Ireland.
Author : Aleksandr I?Akovlevich Khinchin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1957-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486604343
First comprehensive introduction to information theory explores the work of Shannon, McMillan, Feinstein, and Khinchin. Topics include the entropy concept in probability theory, fundamental theorems, and other subjects. 1957 edition.
Author : John Breslin,Sarah Anne Buckley
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785374722
Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are beloved by Irish readers at home and abroad, and in this, the third book of the series, the authors have uncovered yet more photographic gems and breathed new life into them in glorious colour. All of Irish life is here – from evictions in Connemara to the mosgt elegant drawing rooms in Dublin. Famous faces from politics and the arts appear alongside humble labourers and farmers and impish children from all kinjds of backgrounds light up this book’s glorious pages. With endless surprising details to pore over in every picture, and captivating and illuminating text, Old Ireland in Colour 3 is a winning addition to this spectacular series of bestsellng books.
Author : Mark Wilde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107034259
A self-contained, graduate-level textbook that develops from scratch classical results as well as advances of the past decade.
Author : Christopher Morgan,Tom Shannon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 191209116X
The true story of an extraordinary friendship In 1992, Christopher Morgan, a farmer, began writing to Tom Shannon, a lifer, inside for murder. Through their correspondence, a strong and honest friendship developed between the two men whose lives were poles apart, showing friendship and respect can prevail in the most unlikely circumstances.
Author : Conor Curran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Irish
ISBN : 178205216X
Prés. de l'éd.: This book looks at the experiences and achievement levels of Irish-born football migrants to Britain and further afield. In particular, it draws on interviews with twenty-four Irish-born footballers, each of whom has played league football in England or Scotland in the 1945-2010 period. This is the first book to utilise these migrants as a quantitative source, and to illustrate their experiences within the context of the Irish diaspora. It builds on a comprehensive range of databases to examine players' career movements and is illustrated throughout with tables and pictures. It is the first full-length examination of the migration of Irish born footballers to Britain in the period from 1888 until 2010. It uses interviews with twenty-four Irish born footballers, each of whom have played league football in England or Scotland, utilising players from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland on a decade by decade basis in the period from 1945 until 2010 as well as an extensive range of archival and other sources. It is the first book to locate the study of Irish football migrants within the study of the Irish diaspora. An examination of the birthplaces of players is offered along with the reasons for their geographical diversity. As well as providing an assessment of the development of schoolboy coaching structures in Ireland and the social challenges which many young players have faced, particularly in rural areas, it discusses key childhood influences and the development of scouting networks. It assesses the recruitment process and identifies the Irish clubs which have produced the most players who have migrated and played first team league football in Britain, and in turn, it establishes the clubs in Britain which have given first team league football to the most Irish-born players. The impact of the Troubles on the migration of Northern Ireland born players is also discussed. An assessment of players' working conditions and the culture of professional football in Britain is given, particularly in light of the cultural adaption required, while the book also examines the changing nature of the post-playing careers of these footballers. The decline of Irish-born players within top flight English league football is discussed along with a number of difficulties facing future Irish football migrants. In locating the study of Irish football migrants within the study of Irish migration to Britain, Europe and the United States of America, and in comparing the experiences of Irish born footballers with those from other nations, this book is the first of its kind.