1 online resource (x, 317 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)
Contents
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
Summary
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
