
Maps & texts: exploring the Irish Historic Towns Atlas
Royal Irish Academy (Publisher)
Published on 5. May 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-908996-14-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book emerges from the 25 Irish Historic Towns Atlases published to date. It brings together their authors' expertise and insights under the guidance of the editor, medieval historian H.B Clarke. With an attractive and highly readable design it explores what is unique about Irish towns and what is generic. Through comparisons it considers various categories of Irish urban life, how Ireland's major towns and cities interacted and changed over time and why that might be so. It considers town morphology as a social process in the making of urban Ireland and its distinct personality. The book comprises 20 individual essays that offer new perspectives on urban life in Ireland. In the first section, pairs of comparable towns, and in one case three towns, are explored - Armagh and Kells, Kilkenny and Limerick, Kildare and Tuam, Ennis and Longford, Belfast and Derry~Londonderry, Athlone, Longford and Mullingar. The second section focuses on aspects of urban life such as religion, manufacturing and education. In the final section, three critiques open further ground, suggesting various approaches and tools for understanding towns and their history, shape and diversity. 'Maps and Texts' broadens the ways in which atlases might be used, making it suitable for second level students as well as for more focused scholars. The book is in full colour and illustrated with over 90 maps, reconstructions, views and photographs.
Editors: H.B. Clarke, Sarah Gearty
Series editors: Anngret Simms, H.B. Clarke, Raymond Gillespie, Jacinta Prunty; Consultant editor: J.H. Andrews; Cartographic editor: Sarah Gearty; Editorial assistants: Angela Murphy, Jennifer Moore.
Editors: H.B. Clarke, Sarah Gearty
Series editors: Anngret Simms, H.B. Clarke, Raymond Gillespie, Jacinta Prunty; Consultant editor: J.H. Andrews; Cartographic editor: Sarah Gearty; Editorial assistants: Angela Murphy, Jennifer Moore.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
With flaps
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
1021 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908996-14-5 (9781908996145)
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Persons
Sarah Gearty is cartographic and managing editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas project. She has overseen the production of over 15 town atlases and several ancillary publications/projects. She was co-author on the atlas of Longford (2010, with Fergus O'Ferrall and Martin Morris) and co-editor of Maps and texts: using the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (with H.B. Clarke, 2013). H.B. Clarke is a medieval historian and a member of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas Editorial Board.
Editor
Royal Irish Academy
Professer EmeritusUniversity College Dublin
Foreword
Professor EmeritusTrinity College Dublin