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| Titre : | Making hay when the sun don't shine : The Rev. William Richardson, science and society in early nineteenth-century Ireland (2011) |
| Auteurs : | Allan BLACKSTOCK, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol 37 n 147 2011) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 396-411 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Rev. William Richardson (1740-1820) claimed the grass known by the old Irish name of fiorin could produce abundant winter hay and help reclaim bogland. In 1806 the leading British scientist Humphry Davy visited Richardson and was impressed enough to recommend him to the Board of Agriculture and include fiorin in his famous lecture series. However, if Richardson is mentioned in Irish historiography it is usually for a single political pamphlet he authored on the Irish yeomanry - a force he claimed to have founded - although he wrote extensively on scientific topics. This article will argue that his career is of more than general biographical interest because of what it reveals about wider developments in early nineteenth-century Ireland. Focusing on Richardson's botanical interests in order to explore his affinity with Enlightenment ideas will serve as a point of entry into the largely unexplored world of Irish provincial science. As his writings date from after the 1798 rebellion and the Union, a second theme concerns the intersections of science and politics, particularly in the growing town of Belfast |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Allan Blackstock |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
