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Title

Recoveries : neglected episodes in Irish cultural history, 1860-1912 / John Wilson Foster.

Author

Foster, John Wilson.

Publication

Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2002.

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Description

ix, 158 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

This book presents three lectures delivered at NUI Maynooth in February 2001. Each lecture draws attention to a neglected episode in Irish cultural history that occurred between mid-Victorian and Edwardian times. The first lecture discusses the reaction in Ireland to one version of Darwinism; the second lecture addresses the building of the RMS Titanic; and the last lecture discusses the explosive growth in popularity of fieldwork in geology, botany, and zoology in Ireland. All contribute to the cultural history of science in Ireland. -- From Introduction

Subject

• Ireland > Civilization > 19th century
• Ireland > Civilization > 20th century
• Ireland > History > 19th century
• Ireland > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Darwin in Ireland: John Tyndall and the Irish churches : Irish science and the Darwinian crisis; John Tyndall; The chorus of dissent; Darwin and the Protestants; Battle of the Addresses; the poet of science -- A mechanical age : the culture of 'Titanic': the mammoth and marvelous machine; The acceleration of technology ; Anxiety and the machine; A chivalry of labour; A Titanic world; The god of speed; Machine modernism -- Field days: knowledge in Victorian Belfast : Literature of the fields; Fieldwork and the two (Irish) cultures; Field clubs and their origins; Thickets and clearings; Clubs and unions; Field events and country matters.

ISBN

1900621827

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Harvard Library