Science and technology in nineteenth-century Ireland

The alchemy of medicine and print

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin

Danielle Westerhof, editor

This volume arises from a conference held in November 2008 at the Royal Society in London to mark the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Edward Worth…

On literature and science

Essays, reflections, provocations

Philip Coleman, editor

On literature and science explores some of the ways that writers have engaged with science and technology from the early medieval period to the present.

Philip…

Music and the stars

Mathematics in medieval Ireland

Mary Kelly & Charles Doherty, editors

Ireland’s contribution to modern science is well attested, yet it is not so well known that Ireland, famed for over half a millennium for its saints and scholar…

Irish elites in the nineteenth century

Ciaran O'Neill, editor

This collection of essays, published in association with the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, challenges the view that national identificati…