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Sarah Gearty selects and discusses her favourite maps from the Oireachtas Library Treasures series
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For the first time in three years, the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) were part of a number of in-person and online events for Heritage Week 2022.
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Bandon, Belfast, part I to 1840, Derry~Londonderry, Longford and Ennis are now freely available to search or download.
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As part of Culture Night 2020 we have an exhibition that offers a glimpse of town life through the Irish Historic Towns Atlas .
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During Heritage Week the premiere of the Cork atlas preview video took place.
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The collaboration between the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) and the Heritage Council was celebrated this week with the launch of the IHTA Layer on HeritageMaps.ie and the Digital Atlas of Fethard as well as participating in the Dublin Festival of History
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Ruth McManus and Jonathan Wright have been appointed to the Board of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas as honorary editors.
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The IHTA’s Dublin Part III and Dublin 1847: City of the Ordnance Survey was reviewed in the Dublin Review of Books.
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As part of IHTA Online, Anngret Simms, MRIA and founding editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas , discusses the native Gaelic town type – the Monastic Town.
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Maynooth University history student, Kevin Comiskey, gives an account of his six weeks as a SPUR student in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas project.
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Irish Historic Towns Atlases of Maynooth, Dundalk and Dublin, part II, 1610 to 1756 are now freely available to search or download.
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Sarah Gearty is interviewed by Damien Tiernan from WLRFM on the recent launch of the Digital Atlas of Dungarvan, which is part of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series.
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Maynooth University history student, Aoife Murphy, gives an account of her six weeks as a SPUR student in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas programme.
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A delegation from the Royal Irish Academy, Highlanes Gallery and Louth County Council were invited for a courtesy call to Áras an Uachtaráin on 15 April 2019 where author Ned Mc Hugh presented President Higgins with an advance copy of Irish Historic Towns Atlas no...
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Town and Country: perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas had record numbers in attendance
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Galway c.1200 to c.1900: from medieval borough to modern city now available.
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As part of IHTA Online, Howard Clarke, MRIA and editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas , explores the traditional Irish Viking towns and other towns associated with them.
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Join us on 4 October to learn more about our research projects, library and publications
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Public lecture by Roger Kain and IHTA Seminar 2017: Mapping Townscapes: comparative perspectives through the Irish and British Historic Town Atlases.
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In the Royal Irish Academy's educational resources series , Ruth McManus (Dublin City University) discusses how the printed Irish Historic Towns Atlas and IHTA Online can be used in third-level geography.
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Town & Country: perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas was launched by Vanessa Harding, chair, Historic Towns Trust last night following a lecture by Howard Clarke 'Mapping places, mapping people: Dublin and Dubliners' perspectives'
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'Drogheda' officially launched in the Highlanes Gallery by Peter Kennedy, President of the Royal Irish Academy
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For Culture Night 2021, the Irish Historic Towns Atlas presents an exhibition on the Dublin suburbs series.
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This digital edition of the Irish Historic Town Atlas for Kilkenny is available below for you to explore online, free of charge.
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In the third IHTA town type essay, Michael Potterton, Irish Historic Towns Atlas editor and Maynooth University lecturer, focuses on the buildling boom of Irish towns from the twelth to fourteenth centuries.
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