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dc.contributor.creatorButler, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-21T09:16:43Z
dc.date.available2021-09-21T09:16:43Z
dc.date.issued2021-09
dc.identifier.citationButler, R. J. (2021) 'Transatlantic exchange, urban development and heterogeneous engineering in the west of Ireland: Belmullet's unbuilt railways, c. 1820-1920', in Butler, R. J., ed., Dreams of the Future in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 215-44.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781800856752
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/3007
dc.description.abstractThis chapter focuses on technological and geo-spatial dreams of modernity through a study of the unexecuted proposals for developing the town of Belmullet in Co. Mayo as a transatlantic packet station. It adds to the growing literature on north Atlantic exchange and the development of early steamship and railway routes in Ireland. Theoretically, it engages with the concept of Ireland as a functional networked unit within a transnational geo-political infrastructure of certain fixities and flows, and of railways as a core new technology in the development of the nineteenth-century state. The scheme’s proponents believed that Belmullet, in one of the poorest and least developed outer edges of pre-Famine Ireland, could become an infrastructural node of national and international importance. This chapter focuses on the advocacy of landlords, ‘boosters’, and especially engineers for Belmullet’s development.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherLiverpool University Pressen_US
dc.rightshttps://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/55053/en_US
dc.subjectUrban historyen_US
dc.subjectIrelanden_US
dc.subjectRailwaysen_US
dc.subjectNorth Atlanticen_US
dc.subjectTechnologyen_US
dc.titleTransatlantic exchange, urban development and heterogeneous engineering in the west of Ireland: Belmullet's unbuilt railways, c. 1820-1920 (Pre Published)en_US
dc.typePart/ Chapter of booken_US
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dc.type.supercollectionmic_published_revieweden_US
dc.description.versionYesen_US


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