ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF IRELAND Listen Ireland is today widely known as the “Emerald Isle”, but this successful branding hides a bitter history: until well into the 20th century, unprofitable agriculture [...] technical products, but imported only food products and textiles from Ireland. When the Irish Free State, later to become the Republic of Ireland, was founded in 1921, the heavily industrialised north remained [...] Related Links ERIH Link List WIKIPEDIA: Economy of the Republic of Ireland World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Ireland? Dublin. Jacob Biscuit Factory
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
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
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
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
engineering superhero, it also dramatically reduced the time and dangers involved on the journey from Ireland via Holyhead to London. Along with Telford’s other improvements to the London to Holyhead Road, the [...] railway from London to Holyhead but also a major European roadway, linking Continental Europe to Ireland. The full history of the bridges and several artefacts can be seen at the Menai Heritage museum
Skerries is a village on the east coast of Ireland 30 km north of Dublin where much of the land was owned for many centuries by the Augustinian Priory of Holmpatrick. Three historic mills that once ground
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
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
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
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
the land is suitable for agricultural use and Iceland possesses virtually no natural ... more IRELANDIreland is today widely known as the “Emerald Isle”, but this successful branding hides a bitter history:
degrees. Particularly living up to the magazine's title "Canal Landscapes" is the Grand Canal of Ireland , establishing the largest houseboat district in Europe together with the River Shannon, the Erne
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
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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
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
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
