Powering the West by Christy Loftus & James Laffey

Description

A history of Bord na Móna and ESB in North Mayo. For almost half a century the iconic cooling tower at Bellacorick power station was the outstanding landmark on the North Mayo skyline, a beacon of industrial progress in a vast wilderness of bog. Powering the West is not just a history of the involvement of Bord na Móna and ESB in Bellacorick, it is a social record of North Mayo and Erris during the second half of the twentieth century.