Powering the Nation
Subtitle: Images of the Shannon Scheme and Electricity in Ireland
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781911024675
Subjects: Electrification; Ireland, history; Ireland, social conditions
Description: The visual story of the greatest industrial initiative of the fledgling Irish Free State: the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme. Lavishly designed, the book examines the construction of this mammoth of modern ingenuity and its symbolic power during the dawn of electrical technology in Ireland.