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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland :
Irish Academic Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.