IN SEARCH OF FAME AND FORTUNE: THE LEAHY FAMILY OF ENGINEERS 1780-1888
Written by Brendan O'Donoghue
Published by Geography Publications
in 2006
ISBN: 0906602920
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- IRELAND
- ENGINEERING
- CARTOGRAPHY
IN SEARCH OF FAME AND FORTUNE: THE LEAHY FAMILY OF ENGINEERS 1780-1888
Written by Brendan O'Donoghue.
Stock no. 2140543
Circa.
2006.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Black cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0906602920. A few marks to covers and outer page edges. Wrapper has some edge-creasing.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction and acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- THE LEAHYS IN IRELAND, 1796-1846
- I Patrick Leahy - Country Surveyor
- II A Family Business Develops, 1830-34
- III First Cork County Surveyors, 1834
- IV Road Building in Cork, 1834-46
- V Public Buildings in Cork
- VI Private Practice, 1834-46
- VII Railway Engineering, 1836-46
- VIII Loss of County Surveyor posts
- THE LEAHYS ABROAD, 1846-88
- IX At the Cape of Good Hope, 1849-51
- X Edmund and Matthew in Turkey, 1852-58
- XI Family Matters, 1852-60
- XII Matthew and Denis and Trinidad, 1860-63
- XIII Edmund Leahy in Jamaica, 1858-63
- XV Edmund Leahy and the Cashel Election, 1868
- XVI Edmund Leahy, 1864-88
- XVII The Last Years of the Leahy Family
- XVIII Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index