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- Title
"Let Me See the Cable and Die": A Visual Essay.
- Authors
Morash, Chris
- Abstract
the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 from Valentia Island, County Kerry, to Heart's Content, newfoundland, and both sites are now applying to become a transnational uneSCo World Heritage Site. this paper argues that while the transatlantic telegraph of the mid-nineteenth century was seen as disrupting space and time, this needs to be understood in terms of the specificity of place. by framing nineteenth-century languages of technological wonder in the spatial context of the Irish Famine, and of rural poverty in nineteenth-century newfoundland, we gain a more ethically engaged understanding of the unquestioning veneration of global telecommunications.
- Subjects
VALENCIA Island (Ireland); IRELAND; TELEGRAPH &; telegraphy; FAMINES; GREAT Famine, Ireland, 1845-1852; WORLD Heritage Sites
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2020, Vol 43, p39
- ISSN
0703-1459
- Publication type
Article