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Recoveries : neglected episodes in Irish cultural history, 1860-1912
- 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DA950.1 .F677 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 158 pages : illustrations; 23 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
- 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
- 9781900621823
- LCCN
- 2003428926
- OCLC
- ocm50494405
- 50494405
- SCSB-14285782
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library