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Book TitleInfrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016
Chapter TitlePower : are you getting the light? Ardnacrusha, the Rural Electrification Scheme and illuminating Ireland's peripheries
Chapter AuthorDoherty, Gareth
Book EditorBoyd, Gary ; McLaughlin, John
PublisherAshgate
ISBN9781472446862
Date2015
Page(s)pp29-44
Contentmaps, photos, plans, sections, text
Note(s)Describes the genesis of the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme devised by engineer Thomas Aloysius McLaughlin and formally opened in July 1929.
Subject(s)power stations ; electricity ; infrastructure ; power stations ; hydroelectric power ; history
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