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Recoveries - Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural History 1860-1912 (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Recoveries - Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural History 1860-1912 (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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In three contributions to the little-researched subject of the
history of science in Ireland, John Wilson Foster looks at
neglected episodes in Irish cultural history from mid-Victorian to
Edwardian times. He discusses Darwinism in late 19th-century
Ireland and its impact on Irish churchmen, with special reference
to Darwin's champion John Tyndall, whose famous declaration of
materialism in his Presidential Address to the British Association
for the Advancement of Science in Belfast 1874 provoked a vehement
response from the leaders of the Protestant as well as Catholic
churches. Foster then moves to the Belfast of 1911 and the building
and launching of the Titanic, which he sees as the culmination of
the engineering genius of Belfast from the mid-19th to early 20th
century. In his third essay, Foster looks at the growing interest
in Belfast towards the end of the 19th century in amateur
scientific fieldwork (for example, botany), encouraged by the
values and preoccupations on Victorian culture. The book is based
on lectures delivered at NUI Maynooth in the National University of
Ireland's Visiting Lectureship series.
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