The Agriculture Diploma in Queen's College, Belfast, 1845–1863, and Science Education in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Adelman, Juliana

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“…Kane's proposed economic section as part of the revamped memoir scheme placed great emphasis on the potential benefits to the Irish economy of agricultural chemistry, but his later soil laboratory in the Museum of Irish Industry was abandoned in 1852 and agricultural chemistry generally played little part in enhancing Ireland's agricultural fortunes at that period. 108 Similarly, the natural history respondents to the memoir commission generally saw no special advantages to the scheme and as in Scotland, it was always easier to assert the economic value of a mass-gathering information scheme than qualitatively to demonstrate its efficacy. 109 The prevailing cultural legacy of the memoirs in Ireland is a legitimate one, given the ground-breaking importance of Petrie, O Donovan and O'Keefe's scholarly work for Irish studies.…”

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‘Information from which money can be made is what is required’: William Blackwoods and the Irish Ordnance Memoir Commission of 1843-4

Hill

2023

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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The Irish Ordnance memoir scheme attempted to produce wide-ranging ‘statistical’ memoirs on a national basis, to accompany the large-scale (six-inch) mapping of the country by the Irish Ordnance Survey. Dating to the early 1830s, the memoir scheme had a stop-start existence and only published a specimen account for the parish of Templemore, County Londonderry (1837). But the scheme's overall aims of economic improvement and cultural revival attracted considerable support from Irish society and the Irish press. Public calls for resumption after memoir activity was stopped in 1840 led to an investigatory commission of 1843–4, appointed by the prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, but the commission's favourable findings were then disputed by him, primarily on grounds of cost. This article examines the impact of the Edinburgh publishing house of William Blackwoods on the memoir commission. The first section investigates the influence of Scottish voluntaryism on the commission, while the second assesses the impact of the firm on the emerging publication proposals in the immediate aftermath of the report. The article argues that the memoir scheme was not a victim of British antipathy but expired from a failure of the principals, including Blackwoods, to agree publishing terms, and both assesses and contextualises the scheme's demise from this adjusted perspective.

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‘Information from which money can be made is what is required’: William Blackwoods and the Irish Ordnance Memoir Commission of 1843-4

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2023

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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The Agriculture Diploma in Queen's College, Belfast, 1845–1863, and Science Education in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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‘Information from which money can be made is what is required’: William Blackwoods and the Irish Ordnance Memoir Commission of 1843-4

‘Information from which money can be made is what is required’: William Blackwoods and the Irish Ordnance Memoir Commission of 1843-4

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