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Connecting a Nation
The story of telecommunications in Ireland
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This insightful and richly detailed history suits readers interested in telecommunications, Irish history, and the interplay between technology and society. It is particularly recommended for students, researchers, and anyone curious about how digital connectivity transformed Ireland into a modern tech hub.
Connecting the past to the present, Connecting a Nation offers an insider's perspective on how the decisions of the past continue to shape who we are as individuals - and as a nation.
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The story of Ireland’s stunning transformation from a rural nation to a global communications hub.
Like most of the world today, Ireland is abuzz with telecommunications. The country’s software industry includes nine of the world’s top ten tech firms and generates €50 billion in annual exports. Yet it was only a few decades ago that Ireland was a largely agrarian nation with a two-year waiting list to get a landline phone installed. Connecting a Nation tells the story of Ireland’s telecommunications boom—a story not just of cables and SIM cards but of the pivotal role telecommunications has played in the development of the country over the last two centuries.
Deryck Fay—a longtime telecom industry worker—shows how Irish telecommunications is intimately bound up with politics, economics, and geography, illustrating these interconnections by drawing on a range of historical personal stories. Fay brings to life the first day of work for an operator at Dublin’s new telephone exchange in 1881, the painful process of getting a phone installed in the 1970s, and the story of how an airline website created by two students ignited the digital revolution in Ireland.
In providing a direct line between the past to the present, Connecting a Nation offers an insider’s perspective on how the telecommunications decisions of the past continue to shape the lives of the Irish, both individually and nationally, while pointing the way towards an ever-connected future.
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Mark Twomey of The Irish Examiner praises the book as a valuable resource for future researchers, highlighting its comprehensive appendices that compose nearly a quarter of the book’s length. The Irish Times and Irish Independent also commend Fay's engaging storytelling and in-depth history of Irish telecommunications, emphasising its cultural and technological significance in Ireland’s development.
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ISBN: 9781910820872
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 October 2021
Country: Ireland
Imprint: University College Dublin Press
Illustration: Colour illustrated throughout
Audience: Tertiary education
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Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 250
About the Author
Deryck Fay has been fascinated by technology since he was a boy. Since graduating from Trinity College Dublin with a Masters in Science, he has worked for 20 years in the telecoms industry. His ability to explain technology solutions combined with a passion for understanding how policy, governments and markets shape the industry, ideally positions him to tell the fascinating story of telecommunications in Ireland.
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