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- 1925
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Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 14 --> Memoir -->001.
A typescript account of M M O'Shaughnessy's 3 month trip to Europe, taken in 1925 during his role as City Engineer, taking in Chicago, Buffalo, New York, Cork, Limerick, Dublin, London, Stratford on Avon, Paris, Chateau Thierry, Switzerland, Lake Geneva, Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples, Rome, Genoa, Marseilles, Boston and Montreal. The account gives summary observations of municipal engineering projects from many of the destinations making comparisons with San Francisco. He writes of his week spent in Ireland, recovering its prosperity after the recent wars. Comparisons of scale are drawn between the Shannon Power Scheme and the Hetch Hetchy plant for San Francisco.
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The material is accessible to all bone fide researchers, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at the James Hardiman Library.
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25/05/2017
01/09/2017