| Few things are more evocative of a bygone era than a well-executed painting. The Steam Age in Ireland depicts the golden age of railway travel, bringing to life a period when most photographers used black and white film and when colour pictures were rare. Using art as a medium of communication allows us to play out our fantasies, creating scenes as we imagine them to have been. Between the covers of this book you will see many different styles and interpretations. Most of the artists are contemporary; most of the paintings are commissions - some for book covers, some for posters but the majority for private individuals who, for their own enjoyment, want a particular scene to be immortalised in a painting. These pictures allow us to recapture the trains of our youth, when, as well as passengers, the country railway conveyed cattle, coal, racing pigeons, letters and milk churns. Contents:
- Introduction
- Early Scenes
- Victorian Masterpieces
- The County Antrim Narrow Gauge
- The Armagh Disaster
- Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway
- Belfast and Northern Counties Railway
- Waterford and Tramore Railway
- Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway
- Donegal Railway
- Midland great Western Railway
- Belfast and County Down Railway
- On Rails Broad and Narrow
- Great Southern and Western Railway
- Clogher Valley railway
- County Cork
- Midland Great Western Railway
- More Narrow Gauge
- The Northern Counties Committee
- Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway
- Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway
- More NCC
- The ‘400 class’ 4-6-0s
- More BCDR
- GNR Compounds
- The Mighty Mogul
- Maeve
- The Sligo, Leitrim
- The County Donegal The 1950s
- The Great Northern
- The 1960s
- Preservation
- Railway Posters
- The Artists
- Index
Continent: Europe
Country: Ireland |
