Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Sarah Gearty (Royal Irish Academy) ,
Professor H.B. Clarke, MRIA (Professer Emeritus, University College Dublin) ,
Professor J.H. Andrews, MRIA (Professor Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin)
Publisher: Royal Irish Academy
Imprint: Royal Irish Academy
Dimensions:
Width: 21.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 26.00cm
Weight: 1.021kg
ISBN: 9781908996145
ISBN 10: 1908996145
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 05 May 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
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.
