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Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-County Exploration of the Mysteries and Marvels of the Ingenious Irish [Hardcover]

Mary Mulvihill (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (December 23, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0684020947
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684020945
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.5 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must be read immediately by everyone, October 2, 2003
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This review is from: Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-county Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels (Hardcover)
A wonderful, witty, scholarly, fascinating book about Ireland's little-known scientific history - mostly a history of individuals who made great discoveries.

* Copyright: a legal precedent was set in a case involving the young St Colmcille, a famous illuminator who copied a Bible belonging to another man. The judges followed agricultural precedent in their judgment: "To every cow its calf, to every book its copy." The result was a battle when 3,000 died; the upside was that Colmcille went to Iona to found the monastery where the illuminated manuscript the Book of Kells was produced.

* Medical syringes: invented by a Dublin doctor, who used it to slide morphine under the skin of an agonised patient.

* Millions of other quirky and important inventions in every possible area of life.

This is a great book for children as well as for adults, because its style is limpid and friendly - and because it sparks interest in the possibilities of inventiveness.

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Walk the great wall of Dublin, inspect a Victorian diving bell, see Dublin's tallest structures, meet a Dublin Bay fraud, and visit an island that is still emerging from the waters of Dublin Bay. Read the first page
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culm crushers, spade mill, beetling mill, cultivation ridges, volcanic era, waterlogged bog, woodland nature reserve, wildfowl sanctuaries, wildfowl sanctuary, compensation bars, engineering heritage, international honours, barrier coast, blanket bog, screw piles, turf cutting, heritage centre, raised bog, sea beans, geology museum, limestone landscape, giant deer, island survey, commercial deposits, natterjack toad
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World War, Lough Neagh, North America, Dublin Bay, Dunsink Observatory, Giant's Causeway, Royal Society, National Museum, Robert Boyle, Lough Corrib, Geological Survey of Ireland, New York, Trinity College, Royal Irish Academy, Leinster House, Transport Museum, Ben Bulben, Birr Castle, Royal Dublin Society, Black Death, Hook Head, Mount Jerome, National Library, Phoenix Park, Richard Griffith
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