The Department of Science and Art and control of Irish science, 1853–1905

1 November 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Irish Historical Studies

Vol. 23 (92) , 330-347
https://doi.org/10.1017/s002112140001779x

Abstract

This study deals with one facet of British rule in Ireland: the careful, systematic and almost wholly bureaucratic takeover of key Irish scientific institutions by the Department of Science and Art in South Kensington. The department is now largely forgotten except by educational and institutional historians; and histories of Irish scientific organisations, whilst they may allude to skirmishes with the department, have rarely attempted to come to grips with the complexity of the relationships. We can, however, organise this complexity with a few, comparatively simple ideas.

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