This work is built on five years of meticulous research at national archives in Dublin, London, and Belfast and at the Military Archives in Dublin and the Ordnance Survey’s archives at Phoenix Park. The research is enriched by personal interviews and the narratives of those directly involved in this remarkable journey. A list of these sources and a bibliography will appear here:
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Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1975.
Andrews, J. H.
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Geography Publications, 1997.
Berggren and Jones
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Princeton University Press, 2000.
Borre, Kai
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Journal of Geodetic Science, 2014, 4:74–86.
Close, Colonel Sir Charles
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Institution of Royal Engineers, 1926.
Crane, Nicholas
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Penguin Random House, 2021.
The Economist
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Gordon, Alan
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Regiment Royal Engineers”, 2021
Grann, David
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Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Haasbroek, N. D.
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Rijkscommissie Voor Geodesie, Kanaalweg 4, Delft, Netherlands, 1968.
Kirwan, Richard
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Londubh Books, 2010.
O’Cionnaith, Finnian
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Four Courts Press, 2024.
Owen, Tim, and Elaine Pillbeam
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Ordnance Survey, 1992.
Seymour, W. A. (ed.)
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Dawson, 1980.
Smith, Adam
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Book I, Chapter I, “Of the Division of Labour.” 1776
Sobel, Dava
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Fourth Estate, London, 1998.
Wainwright, Alfred
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Frances Lincoln, 2009 Special Edition.
