How to Find a Windward Passage; or, Mapping Eighteenth-Century Ireland’s Colonial Legacies

By Finola O’Kane
Published in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, January 2026.
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Abstract

This brief essay explores the colonial nature of Ireland’s mapping traditions to suggest where these may have been translated by Irishmen to other islands, other colonies, other empires. It has also attempted to show how the space between islands, for ...