First, I’ve checked all the linked sites listed at the bottom of the right-hand column and removed some that have died. If you know of others to which I should provide a link, do please let me know.
Second, I’ve added a link to the excellent Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History, and I take the opportunity to draw it to the attention of folk interested in who made what. I have received much useful information from its volunteers and I have been able to contribute photos of a few artefacts. It’s well worth exploring. I have also added a link to the Railway and Canal Historical Society.
Third, I am glad to see that the Irish Times‘s conversion to the benefits of civilisation continues: yesterday it featured an Intel Pentium chip from 1994, which provided the basis for an essay on Ken Whitaker’s 1950s report, globalisation, television, women, Northern Ireland and Viagra. If only some more of the nineteenth century industrialists, entrepreneurs, engineers and modernisers had been covered.
That, fourth, reminds me that I came across a couple of interesting articles by Roy Johnston on the Victorian Web site: they’re under the heading Science, Technology, and Politics, on this page, which has several articles about Ireland. They include articles on whether Ireland was a colony, although I must confess that I have yet to be persuaded that that is a question in which I should take an interest.
Irish waterways history 