Civilizing Ireland
Subtitle: Ordnance survey 1824-1842 : ethnography, cartography, translation
By: Stiofán Ó Cadhla ; foreword by Éamon Ó Cuív.
Contributors: Ó Cuív, Éamon
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780716528814; 9780716533726
Subjects: Ordnance Survey of Ireland -- History -- 19th century; Cartography -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century; Ethnology -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century; Human geography -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: A full face portrait of the land : topographic and antiquarian vision; title: The habits of the people : the emergence of folklore and ethnology; title: Colonialism's culture : ethnography, cartography and translation; title: The bonnet and the brogue : race, place and language; title: Old rhymes and rags of legends : tradition and civilization; title: Traversing the country : fieldwork, mimicry and method; title: Derry with Derrida : translation, Anglicization and culture.