Reviews: Atlas of Ireland

This review evaluates the Atlas of Ireland, published in 1979 after eight years of collaboration among numerous scholars and public institutions. Through approximately 250 maps, the volume offers a systematic cartographic account of Ireland’s geology, climate, biogeography, population, settlement, agriculture, industry, and other economic activities. Its treatment of social conditions, language, and folk traditions is especially noteworthy. The reviewer praises the atlas’s editorial conception, cartographic execution, and printing, concluding that it successfully creates a national geographical portrait comparable to leading atlases elsewhere. Its principal weakness is the absence of explanatory commentary and substantial bibliographic guidance, requiring readers to consult external geographical literature.