Life
1851-1901; natural philosopher; ed. TCD; Senior Fellow of TCD; Erasmus
Smith Professor; FRS; Pres. Physical Society; carried out successful gliding
experiments in College Park; prominent in Irish educational affairs; Scientific
Writings ed. Sir Joseph Larmour (1902). DNB
Commentary
J.
C. Kelly-Rogers, ‘Aviation in Ireland - 1784 to 1922’, Éire-Ireland,
6, 2 (Summer 1971), pp.3-17.
Roy Johnston, ‘Godless Colleges and Non-Persons’, Causeway 1 (Autumn 1993), pp.36-38.
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