Cautious Cartography March 14, 2013
Posted by doctorfive in Irish History.trackback
A dissuasive map published in Dublin Opinion during the Emergency most charitably alerts would-be invaders to perils that await. A land ravaged by rheumatism, diphtheria and pipe bands. The Republic was conveniently fortressed by rocks, sharks, whirlpools and ‘still more rocks’ though we are left to speculate on what horror lies in the ‘unexplored’ north east.
A lone tree stands defiant in Athlone between the Meath Desert and Great Quagmire.
Not a pretty picture but would reality have been any more appealing?
via Strange Maps
As good now as it was then!
Actually that’s brilliant. I wonder how much of a sly dig the depiction of the north was at govt of NI maps of the period that was? The latter rarely showed any geographic or town/city features in the south in thir maps of the island.
They still don’t sometimes. I was in the Armagh planetarium recently, which has a huge floor display showing Northern Ireland as an island!