Humanities Series

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2015-05-27

  Humanities: Dr Jacinta Prunty, 'The map-making of the Ordnance Survey: challenges on every front'.

Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland - RIA Library/IHTA Lunchtime Lectures. This was the Academy's Heritage Week lecture 2014, introduced by Prof. Mary E. Daly, Academy President. The speaker contextualises the sur...
  The Royal Irish Academy author
2015-05-06

  Humanities: Prof. William Smith, MRIA 'The OS 6" mapping project: political and cultural agendas'

Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland - RIA Library/IHTA Lunchtime Lectures Accompanied by apowerpoint presentation. Lecture on the genesis and thrust of the great 6" Survey of Ireland by the Ordnance Survey: the ma...
  The Royal Irish Academy author
2015-05-06

  Humanities: Paul Walsh, 'George Petrie's "Topographical Department" 1835-42'.

Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland - RIA Library/IHTA Lunchtime Lectures Please see accompanying powerpoint. http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/paul-walsh-george-petries-topographical-department-183542...
  The Royal Irish Academy author
2015-05-06

  Humanities: Prof. Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA, 'Translations: the placenames work of the OS in Ireland'

Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland - RIA Library/IHTA Lunchtime Lectures Lecture delivered by Paul Walsh on behalf of Prof. Ó Muraíle. Please use the accompanying handout (http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishac...
  The Royal Irish Academy author
2015-05-06

  Humanities: Dr Frank Cullen, 'Dublin in 1847: city of the Ordnance Survey'.

Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland - RIA Library/IHTA Lunchtime Lectures Cullen discusses the OS map of Dublin (1847) which casts a 'window on the city'. This map was made by military surveyors with civil assist...
  The Royal Irish Academy author
2015-05-06

  Humanities: Rob Goodbody, 'From Rocque to the Ordnance Survey: mapping Dublin 1756-1847'.

Mapping city, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland - RIA Library/IHTA Lunchtime Lectures Please see accompanying powerpoint. http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/rob-goodbody-from-rocque-to-the-ordnance-survey-mapping-d...
  The Royal Irish Academy author
2015-05-06

  Humanities: Prof. Michael Herity, MRIA, 'John O'Donovan's work for the OS'.

Mapping City, town and country since 1824: the Ordnance Survey in Ireland - RIA Library/IHTA Lunchtime Lectures Please see accompanying powerpoint. http://www.slideshare.net/theroyalirishacademy/prof-michael-herity-mria-john-odonovans-work-for-the-os-2...
  The Royal Irish Academy author
2014-11-19

  Humanities: Winners and losers at the Battle of Clontarf - Professor Sean Duffy, TCD

A series of lectures on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more, also the focus of an exhibition which was based on the Library collections
  The Royal Irish Academy author
2014-11-19

  Humanities: Power and Politics in late Viking-Age Denmark’ - Dr Anne Pedersen

Humanities Series: A series of lectures on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more, also the focus of an exhibition which was based on the Library collections
  The Royal Irish Academy author
2014-11-19

  Humanities: Ireland, Norway and Iceland in the ... thirteenth century

Speaker: Professor Jon Vidar Sigurdsson, University of Oslo A series of lectures on the momentous events of 1014, Brian Boru, the Vikings in Ireland and much more, also the focus of an exhibition which was based on the Library collections
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