Place-names, Politics and Conflict
In a series of four posts over the coming weeks Ciarán Dunbar will explore why the single most important event in Irish place-names study and a significant event in Irish history, the 1st Ordnance Survey is almost universally misunderstood – But how do such simple everyday things such as place-names become involved in politics, in controversy and even in conflict? What is a place-name? What is a place-name? That question seems a very simple one at first glance but …