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Science and society in Ireland : the social context of science and technology in Ireland, 1800-1950 /

Science and society in Ireland : the social context of science and technology in Ireland, 1800-1950 / edited by Peter J. Bowler & Nicholas Whyte. - Belfast : Queen's University of Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. - ix, 170 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On science and colonialism / Roy MacLeod -- The social context of W.R. Hamilton's prediction of conical refraction / David Attis -- Science and social policy in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century / James Bennett -- Science and nationality in Edwardian Ireland / Nicholas Whyte -- James Ryan and the problem of Irish 'new technology' in British mines in the early nineteenth century / Hugh Torrens -- Technical education and the application of technology in Ireland, 1800-1950 / W. Garrett Scaife -- Some aspects of the evolution of agricultural and technical education in nineteenth-century Ireland / Richard A. Jarrell -- Natural history in modern Irish culture / John Wilson Foster -- Twilight and dawn for geography in Ireland / Anne Buttimer -- Science and the cultural revival, 1863-1916 / Sean Lysaght.

0853896690 9780853896692: £8.50

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Science--Social aspects--History--Ireland
Technology--Social aspects--History--Ireland
Science and state--Ireland
Education and state--Ireland
Technology--History--Ireland
Impact of science & technology on society
Social & cultural history
European history


Ireland--History--19th century

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