Charles (Carlo) Bianconi was an Italian who transformed passenger transport in Ireland in the decades before the construction of main line railways. He was born at Costa Masnaga in Lombardy, 13 km south-west

Rhineland, the Ottoman Empire and India. Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland , was published in four parts in 1863, and in recent years has been the basis for popular television

to New York in 1845. The company that owned her became bankrupt after she ran ashore in Northern Ireland in 1846. She is now conserved in Bristol. The much larger 32,000 ton SS Great Eastern, built for

sometimes reckoned to be the world’s first commuter railway. He subsequently built railways in Ireland extending over some 1300 km, including parts of the Dublin-Drogheda, Great Southern & Western and [...] He was a member of the Royal Dublin Society, and one of the founders of the National Gallery of Ireland. A bridge in Belfast completed in 1995 linking the railways to the north with the line south towards

a veterinary practice in Belfast that over the next 20 years became the largest in the island of Ireland. When his young son complained that his tricycle with solid rubber tires was uncomfortable to ride

Kildare. In 1752 he inherited £100 from his godfather Arthur Price (1676/77-1752), the Church of Ireland Bishop of Cashel, and an active politician. He set up a brewery in Leixlip in north-east Kildare [...] 9000-year lease of land at St James Gate, Dublin, where he established a brewery that was the largest in Ireland by the 1830s. In 1761 he married Olivia Whitmore, daughter of a Dublin grocer, who brought with her

in 1968, and acquired a succession of other companies during the 1970s and 80s, in Alsace, Italy, Ireland and Spain, expanding into Hungary and Poland with the fall of the Iron Curtain, as well as developing

reference works, both written with Ann Nicholls, T he Cambridge Guide to the Museums of Britain and Ireland (1987) and The Cambridge Guide to the Museums of Europe (1991). He often showed impatience with the

particular the growth of co-operative creameries in Scandinavia, the Netherland, northern Germany and Ireland. It was demonstrated at the 1879 meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, which conferred

JRM was born in Northern Ireland in 1813, and educated at the Royal Academical Institute, Belfast. He attended Glasgow University between 1834 and 1837 and joined Walter & Burges, Civil Engineers, Westminster

brother to William Thomas Mulvaney (1806-85), architect of several notable railway stations in Ireland, and possibly of the industrial community of the 1850s at Portlaw. W T Mulvany trained as an arc [...] for the Irish Surveying Office. In 1836 he was appointed to the staff of the Board of Works for Ireland, where he was responsible, amongst other things, for inland waterways and the fishing industry. In [...] topped with tarred calico that were characteristic of the cotton-spinning community of Portlaw in Ireland, the design of which may have originated with his brother. Mulvany was dismissed from his original

engineering contractor who built tramways and railways and owned newspapers and other businesses in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As an employer, he fought unions by locking out strikers [...] strikers and bringing in alternative workers. He was born near Castletownbere in the far south of Ireland, where his father was a building contractor. His father died when he was 18 and he took on the business [...] which promoted the suburban growth of the city. He also built many urban tram routes elsewhere: in Ireland, Britain and Argentina. At the same time, he was the contractor for the construction of several railways

He was born in London of a family whose roots were at Birr in Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated in the mechanical engineering tripos at the University of Cambridge, where he

canals in north-west England, the Aberdeen and Crinan canals in Scotland and the Royal Canal of Ireland. His maritime projects included commercial docks and harbours in London, Dublin, Liverpool, Hull

Canterbury, New Zealand in 1877 and at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Mowing machines won plaudits in Ireland and at Franeker in the Netherlands, and after the Congress of Berlin in 1878 trainloads of reapers