Denman, Peter (2005) Book Review: Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland. UNSPECIFIED.

Download (57kB)

Abstract

Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland opens with an account of a paper read by Samuel Ferguson to the Royal Irish Academy in the 1880s, in which he argued that it would be both preferable and possible to construct a railway tunnel under the Liffey, rather than build a bridge over it. Although Ferguson marshalled examples and engineering calculations in support of his proposal, Dublin is still without its tunnel under the river, and for the past century the supports and girders of the Loop Line railway bridge have interposed themselves between a gazer downstream from O'Connell Bridge and the splendours of Gandon's Custom House alongside the lower reaches of the waterway.

Item Type:	Other
Additional Information:	Irish University Review: Vol.35 No.1 Pages 232-235
Keywords:	Culture; Samuel Ferguson;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies
Item ID:	808
Depositing User:	Peter Denman
Date Deposited:	29 Nov 2007
Refereed:	Yes
URI:
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

Repository Staff Only(login required)

Item control page

Downloads

Origin of downloads