Includes bibliographical references and index.

Negation : the General Post Office and a collapsing of time / Gary A. Boyd -- Power : are you getting the light? Ardnacrusha, the rural electrification scheme and illuminating Ireland's peripheries / Gareth Doherty -- Health : sanatoria and the search for an Irish Paimio / Ellen Rowley -- Bus transportation - Córas Iompair Éireann and Michael Scott / Sarah Lappin and Una Walker -- Media : America at home - the RTÉ television centre / Kevin Donovan -- Aviation : into the West - Rineanna and the jumbo jet / Anna Ryan -- Education : 'my factor has got a tractor shed like this' - the Doyles, the concrete frame and the democratisation of education / Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin -- Telecommunications : infrastructural adhocism / Brian Ward -- Roads : 'we must have motorways'. Ireland, the highway and modernity / Denis Linehan -- Precipitation : clouds, chips and the city / John McLaughlin.