On Paul Eluard's celebrated 'Surrealist map of the World' published ... Why is Eluard's Ireland so disproportionately large? Why did the country so captivate him and other Surrealist artists?

Two centuries ago Ireland was the setting for the world's first large-scale mapping of an entire ... surveyors who completed the Ordnance Survey map in 1841 without modern technology.

A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century. The map ...

A famous Greek astronomer and cartographer, Ptolemy's map of Ireland is incredibly accurate even though it was penned way back in 140AD. A map created by Greek astronomer and cartographer ...