Abstract
Language | English |
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Pages | 396-411 |
Journal | Irish Historical Studies |
Volume | xxxvii |
Issue number | 147 |
Publication status | Published - 1 May 2011 |
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Keywords
- Richardson
- Fiorin Grass
- Belfast
- Associational Culture
- 1798 rebellion
- provincial science
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Making hay when the sun don't shine: the Rev. William Richardson, science and society in early nineteenth-century Ireland. / Blackstock, Allan.
In: Irish Historical Studies, Vol. xxxvii, No. 147, 01.05.2011, p. 396-411.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Making hay when the sun don't shine: the Rev. William Richardson, science and society in early nineteenth-century Ireland
AU - Blackstock, Allan
PY - 2011/5/1
Y1 - 2011/5/1
N2 - The Reverend William Richardson is known to historians as one of the founders of the Irish Yeomanry in 1796. It is less well known that he was a prolific and important writer on agricultural improvement and geology, who included Humphry Davy and Sir Joseph Banks amongst his correspondents. Although Richardson's ideas on improvement were eventually discredited, in their contemporary context they provide a rare insight into scientific interactions between Ireland and Britain. This article also argues that Richardson's input into Belfast's intellectual life can be contextualised in terms of a struggle between radical and moderate groups to dominate the town's civic identity in the decade after Union.
AB - The Reverend William Richardson is known to historians as one of the founders of the Irish Yeomanry in 1796. It is less well known that he was a prolific and important writer on agricultural improvement and geology, who included Humphry Davy and Sir Joseph Banks amongst his correspondents. Although Richardson's ideas on improvement were eventually discredited, in their contemporary context they provide a rare insight into scientific interactions between Ireland and Britain. This article also argues that Richardson's input into Belfast's intellectual life can be contextualised in terms of a struggle between radical and moderate groups to dominate the town's civic identity in the decade after Union.
KW - Richardson
KW - Fiorin Grass
KW - Belfast
KW - Associational Culture
KW - 1798 rebellion
KW - provincial science
M3 - Article
VL - xxxvii
SP - 396
EP - 411
JO - Irish Historical Studies
T2 - Irish Historical Studies
JF - Irish Historical Studies
SN - 0021-1214
IS - 147
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