Archaeology of Irish Industry: Recent Excavations
November 2009

From guns and roses to tales of Hoffmann an explosive works in the Phoenix Park; the industrious landscape of rural County Galway; glassworks at Belfasts Sirocco Works; planning strategies for Dublins industrial heritage; the McCutcheon Archive project; gasworks at Islandbridge and Chapelizod; and brick kilns in urban Belfast and rural County Down were just some of the fascinating areas covered in a very successful conference held in Dundalk in November 2008.
 
We are now very pleased to announce the publication of the papers marking a new phase in Irish industrial heritage studies.
 
Publication available from:
The Manager, Ardgillan Castle, Skerries, Co. Dublin
Tel: +353 1 8492212. Fax: +353 1 8492786
Cost: €20 (including post & packaging)

Contents:
Prof John Byrne - Sir John Mac Neill, architect and engineer
Dr Ron Cox - Mitchell's screw piles
Ewan Duffy - The railways of north east Ireland
Claire Foley - Scheduling the Newry Canal
Dr Michael Gould - Belfast truss roofs
Canice O'Mahony - Manisty's foundry, Dundalk

IHAI Publications are available to order from WORDWELL Ltd., P.O.Box 69, Bray, Co.Wicklow or email to: helen@wordwellbooks.com.

Power From Steam
September 1997
€6.50 & €2.00 p&p

Contents:
Paul Logan - Technological Development of the Reciprocating Steam Engine
John Allen - The Newcomen Engine
Richard Grainger - Steam Locomotives
Garrett Scaife - Parsons and the Steam Turbine
Alfred Montgomery - Industrial Archaeology in the Ulster Museum
Colin Rynne & William Dick - The Heritage of the Stationary Steam Engine in Ireland