Irish railways
Subtitle: a new history
By: Tom Ferris
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780717142910
Subjects: Railroads; History
Description: This title shows how railways encouraged social and economic mobility and had an effect in binding Ireland together by allowing the distribution of national newspapers, enabling sporting contests such as Gaelic games and horse racing to move from the local to the national stage.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Faltering Start; title: 2. National Network Emerges; title: 3. How Ireland Got its Gauge; title: 4. Consolidation and Expansion (1850-1880); title: 5. Rise and Fall of Narrow Gauge; title: 6. Golden Age of Ireland's Railways (1880-1914); title: 7. All Change (1914-1950); title: 8. Back from the Brink.