IHTA Seminar and Launch 2011

On Friday 20 May the Irish Historic Towns Atlas held the third in their three part annual seminar entitled Maps and Texts, exploring the Irish Historic Towns Atlas where themes including religion, trades and services were examined and the towns of Mullingar, Athlone and Longford, as well as the cities of Derry~Londonderry were compared. It was a lively day of discussion where the possibilities of the atlas were debated. We were also honoured to have the members of the International Commission for the History of Towns present on the day. The President, Michel Pauly, and Vice-President, Ferdinand Opll gave presentations during the day. The seminar concluded with a look to the future by Keith Lilley (QUB) in his plenary paper where he discussed digitisation and the implications for historic towns atlases.

The programme for the seminar is available here.
A podcast to the seminar will be posted here shortly.

Following the seminar Marjatta Hielata of the International Commission for the History of Towns launched four of the latest IHTA publications: Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 23 Carlingford by Harold O’Sullivan and Raymnond Gillespie; Reading the maps: a guide to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, by Jacinta Prunty and H.B. Clarke; Limerick c. 840 to c. 1900: Viking longphort to Victorian city by Eamon O’Flahery and Jennifer Moore; and John Rocque’s Dublin: a guide to the Georgian city by Colm Lennon and John Montague.