Frank Cullen

Dublin 1847: city of the Ordnance Survey - Irish Historic Towns Atlas Frank Cullen

Publisher Marketing: As part of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series, this book focuses on the large-scale town plans of Dublin from 1847, as developed by the Ordnance Survey (a national mapping agency). Fifty extracts from these richly detailed maps depict the precision of streets, lanes, buildings, gardens, yards, and parks of the city - to the extent that individual houses (with numbers), pumps, lamp posts, and trees are shown. The book examines selected features and areas of this mid-19th-century city through the map extracts, using other sources to discuss the elements of urban life that lie behind the maps. Preceded by an introductory essay on Dublin at that time, the map extracts and commentaries are accompanied by contemporary illustrations. (Series: Irish Historic Towns Atlas)

Contributor Bio:  Cullen, Frank Frank Cullen and Donald McNeilly have partnered in many theatrical ventures over the decades, most notably in the 1982 founding of the American Vaudeville Museum, vaudeville.org, the research, writing, design and publishing of 40 issues of Vaudeville Times (1998-2008), and their landmark, two-volume, 1600 page, Vaudeville, Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America published by Routledge Press in 2007 to laudatory reviews. In 2006 they moved to the mountains of New Mexico where they now reside with their equally elderly feline companion, Lulu (aka Velcro), and write mystery stories about the Boston they left. The Theatre Museum of New York honored their work in 2011 with the Excellence in Preservation of Theatre History Award.