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Powering the nation : images of the Shannon Scheme and the electrification of Ireland /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Brien, Sorcha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. National identity and electrical technology in 1920s Ireland: balancing forces of essentialism and epochalism -- The power station: a German-Irish industrial building -- Negotiating building: technical drawings and illustrations -- German technology and propaganda: Siemens industrial photographs and prints -- Records of work: German and Irish worker photographs -- An Irish project: ESB advertisements -- The national imaginary: Irish tourist photographs -- Artistic visions: paintings, prints and watercolours by Irish artists -- Official recognition: the commemorative stamp -- Collecting the Shannon Scheme: Irish tourist postcards and cigarette cards -- The Shannon Scheme: imagining a technological Ireland. Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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