Book Review: Irish telecoms, from switchboards to smartphones

"Ireland’s information age began in the middle of the 19th century, 170 years ago when two cable ships set sail from Wales to lay a telegraph cable to Howth in Co Dublin"
Book Review: Irish telecoms, from switchboards to smartphones

Operators at the Telephone Exchange in the GPO in Cork in 1952; manual switchboards like the one above were in use in Ireland up until 1987.

Mon, 21 Feb, 2022 - 21:00
Mark Twomey

  • Connecting a Nation: The Story of Telecommunications in Ireland 
  • Deryck Fay 
  • UCD Press, €30 

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