Communities of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Download or read book Communities of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Ireland written by Marc Caball and published by Four Courts PressLtd. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the intellectual and institutional interactions between scientists, antiquarians and science policymakers in 19th-century Ireland. Contents: Juliana Adelma(TCD), Museums and science in provincial Ireland; Ruth Bayles (QUB), Belfast Natural History Society; Ron Cox (TCD) Engineering Ireland, 1850-1900: transportation and public health; Clara Cullen (UCD), Museum of Irish Industry, the RDS and popular scientific education; Brendan O Donoghue (former Director, NLI), The civil engineering profession in Ireland, 1800-50; Julia Sigwart (UCD), Natural history in Victorian Ireland; Patrick Wyse Jackson (TCD), Geological studies in Ireland, 1730-1860; Marc Caball (UCD), A.B. Rowan and The Kerry Magazine (1854-6); Mary Daly (UCD), Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland; Michael Ryan(Chester Beatty Library), Learned societies and intellectual endeavour in 19th-century Ireland; Nigel Monaghan (Natural History Museum), The Natural History Museum Dublin; Catherine Cox (UCD), Medical and lay communities; Jim Bennett(Museum of the History of Science, Oxford), Science and public life: the case of Thomas Romney Robinson.