19.11.2024, 18:30 P.M.
Dublin in Ordnance Survey Maps by Paul Ferguson, Map Librarian, Trinity College Dublin.
This is the seventh talk in the Irish Georgian Society and Dublin City Council's talk series, Depicting Dublin: understanding Dublin’s architecture, urban morphology and social history through maps, prints, drawings and photographs.
ABSTRACT: Dublin was mapped in extraordinary detail by the Ordnance Survey from 1837 to almost the present day. The sequence of surviving map editions and revisions provides a series of snapshots of the changing urban landscape. This talk will explore this unique cartographic resource and how it can be accessed and used for historical research.
BIOGRAPHY: Paul Ferguson is Map Librarian in Trinity College Library Dublin. He has a particular interest in the early maps of Dublin and is the author with Joseph Brady of Dublin – Mapping the City
(Birlinn, 2023); and was the indexer and editor of The A to Z of Georgian Dublin: John Rocque's maps of the City in 1756 and County in 1760
IMAGE: Ranelagh on the Ordnance Survey of St. Peter’s Parish, Dublin, at twenty-five-inches-to-one-mile in 1865 (TCD Library).
Talks take place at 6.30pm in the Irish Georgian Society's City Assembly House, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2. Talk subscribers can also choose to watch the talks live online. A zoom link to watch the talk live will be issued the day before each talk. Additionally, all talk subscribers will be issued with a recording of the talk the day after, which they can watch for a further two-week period.
Attendance at the talk is recognised by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland as formal CPD (1 point per hour long talk). The IGS will issue CPD certs at the end of the talk series.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This talk is part of the Irish Georgian Society's Conservtion Education Programme which is supported by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The Society also wishes to thank Dublin City Council's Heritage Office for partnering on this talk series, and The Heritage Council for their support of the Irish Georgian Society.
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