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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