18 Dec 2006

Cork University Press (CUP) Publication in Top Five

Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c.1530-1750 by Professor Willie Smyth, Geography Department, UCC and published by Cork University Press  was nominated in the Irish Times top five non-fiction books of 2006. The choice was made by Eileen Battersby, Literary Correspondent with the Irish Times. Eileen said "Scholarship, imagination, the multi-disciplinary overview of the historical geographer, an understanding of the power of conflicting cultures and more than 100 of the author's maps (as well as period maps) imbue this magnificent Simon Schama-like undertaking - to contextualise the evolving Irish landscape.

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