Royal Irish Academy
National Committee for the History of Irish Science
MEETING
The History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Ireland
Date: Friday 14th March 2008
Venue: M4 Lecture Theatre, Museum Building, Trinity College, Dublin
Intending delegates: If you wish to attend the meeting please notify
Juliana Adelman by e-mail ([log in to unmask]).
Registration fee: €10 (lunch and coffee provided).
PROGRAMME
9:30 Registration. Foyer, Museum Building, TCD (€10 per delegate)
10:00 Welcome: Patrick Wyse Jackson
Session 1: Lives in science and medicine Chair: Patrick Wyse Jackson
10:15-11:15
Fiona Clark (Queen's University, Belfast): 'Advancing the medical
career in colonial Latin America'
Tadgh O'Sullivan (University of Liverpool): 'The fortunes of an Irish
savant: the Rev. Dr William Richardson'
Laura Kelly (National University of Ireland, Galway): 'Irish medical
students at the University of Glasgow, 1859-1900'
11:15 Coffee
Session 2: Communicating science Chair: Dáibhí ó Cróinín
11:45-12:45
Elizabethanne Boran (Edward Worth Library, Dr Steevens' Hospital,
Dublin): 'A Cloud of Witnesses': scientific observation in the
correspondence of James Ussher.
Miguel DeArce (Trinity College Dublin): 'Darwin's Irish correspondence
and James Torbitt's project to breed blight-resistant potatoes.'
Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory): 'Developing an
integrated digital repository for the history of science, technology
and medicine related materials in Ireland.'
12:45 Lunch (Lunch is provided; cost is included in registration fee)
Session 3: Science in the community Chair: Juliana Adelman
2:00-3:00
Tony Hand (Trinity College Dublin): 'From Kilkenny to Armagh: an
account of the Kilkenny Marble Works in the papers of the
Physico-Historical Society'
Marie Bourke (National Gallery of Ireland): 'How a number of Irish
museums that include scientific collections have developed from the
late 18th century'
Ruth Bayles (Queen's University, Belfast): 'Belfast Botanic Gardens'
3:00 Coffee
Session 4: Medical practice and disease Chair: Clive Lee
3:30-4:30
Ian Miller (University of Manchester): 'The Irish stomach: abdominal
illness in the early 19th century'
Catherine Cox (University College Dublin): 'The medical marketplace
and medical tradition: interfaces between orthodox, alternative and
folk practice in 19th-century Ireland'
Ida Milne (Trinity College Dublin): 'The 1918/1919 Spanish influenza
pandemic: a 'mystery malady' comes to Ireland'
4:30 Summative remarks: Peter Bowler
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