Follow the Old Road - Jo Kerrigan

Follow the Old Road

Discover the Ireland of Yesteryear

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Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2018
O'Brien Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84717-911-1 (ISBN)
29,95 inkl. MwSt
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By turning off the main highway and discovering old routes, some of which have been travelled for thousands of years, you will see Ireland in an entirely different way. Follow the Old Road will take you on a tour of a variety of pathways from great river roads to lost railways.



Long before records began, travellers arriving on our shores found safe havens, natural harbours, the estuaries of rivers, and settled there, in sight of the ocean that had brought them to this land. Gradually they moved inland to more fertile soil, usually along the course of a river that provided both guidance and essential water supplies. In later centuries, great lords built their castles and monks their abbeys upriver, at the tidal limit. Some of the routes are still used today while others lie ignored and overgrown. Villages, and, later on, towns grew up around these castles and abbeys to serve their needs; towns that still prosper today.

Jo Kerrigan grew up amid the wild beauties of West Cork; after working in the UK as writer, academic and journalist, she returned home to the place she loved best. She now writes regularly for a range of publications, including The Irish Examiner and the Evening Echo as well as international magazines, and operates a very popular online weblog. Richard Mills, born in Provence, moved to West Cork at the age of 16. Since then he has combined the career of press photographer with The Irish Examiner and Evening Echo, with that of keen wildlife photographer, garnering many national and international awards and seeing his images published across the world. He has also been the subject of a TV programme by the wildlife film maker, Eamon de Buitlear.

INTRODUCTION PAGE

CHAPTER I

THE GREAT RIVER ROADS

CHAPTER II

TRACE THE TRACK: PATHWAYS TO THE PAST

CHAPTER III

SLOW AND SERENE: THE CANAL AGE

CHAPTER IV

A FAR-OFF WHISTLE: LOST RAILWAYS

CHAPTER V

FOLLOW THE COAST: SEA ROADS

Erscheinungsdatum
Illustrationen Richard Mills
Zusatzinfo 1 Maps; 1 Index; 100 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Dublin
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Gewicht 545 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-84717-911-8 / 1847179118
ISBN-13 978-1-84717-911-1 / 9781847179111
Zustand Neuware
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