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The 'natural leaders' and their world : politics, culture and society in Belfast, c. 1801-1832
This is an exploration of the complex and cosmopolitan urban culture inhabited by the Presbyterian elite of late-Georgian Belfast.
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An Anglo-Irish Radical in the Late Georgian Metropolis: Peter Finnerty and the Politics of Contempt
This article focuses on the Irish-born metropolitan radical and parliamentary journalist Peter Finnerty, exploring, in particular, the distinctive nature of his political engagement. Chiefly remembered as a friend of William Hazlitt and an implacable opponent of Lord Castlereagh, Finnerty was an influential figure in his own right, who moved between a range of social and political spaces. Framing him as an unrepentant Irish radical, indifferent to the coercive power of authority, this article will examine Finnerty's involvement in a range of scandals, controversies, and causes célèbres, and will highlight the ways in which he succeeded, through enacting a contempt for authority, in subverting both the courtroom and Parliament itself.
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Urban spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland
\"Urban spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland is a wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays, which offers new insights on the Irish urban experience. Adopting a spatial approach, the essays presented in this collection move beyond study of events that happened and people who lived in the towns and cities of nineteenth-century Ireland, instead exploring the ways in which particular urban spaces were constructed and experienced. Focusing on a range of urban spaces, from individual streets and districts, to schools, asylums and entire cities, they highlight both the multifaceted nature of the Irish urban experience and the potential of the spatial approach to the study of history.\"--Back cover.
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Catholics, science and civic culture in Victorian Belfast
The connections between science and civic culture in the Victorian period have been extensively, and intensively, investigated over the past several decades. Limited attention, however, has been paid to Irish urban contexts. Roman Catholic attitudes towards science in the nineteenth century have also been neglected beyond a rather restricted set of thinkers and topics. This paper is offered as a contribution to addressing these lacunae, and examines in detail the complexities involved in Catholic engagement with science in Victorian Belfast. The political and civic geographies of Catholic involvement in scientific discussions in a divided town are uncovered through an examination of five episodes in the unfolding history of Belfast's intellectual culture. The paper stresses the importance of attending to the particularities of local politics and scientific debate for understanding the complex realities of Catholic appropriations of science in a period and urban context profoundly shaped by competing political and religious factions. It also reflects more generally on how the Belfast story supplements and challenges scholarship on the historical relations between Catholicism and science.
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ROCKS, SKULLS AND MATERIALISM: GEOLOGY AND PHRENOLOGY IN LATE-GEORGIAN BELFAST
Recent years have seen the development of a more nuanced understanding of the emergence of scientific naturalism in the nineteenth century. It has become apparent that scientific naturalism did not emerge sui generis in the years following the publication of Charles Darwin's On the origin of species (1859), but was present, if only in incipient form, much earlier in the century. Building on recent scholarship, this article adopts a geographically focused approach and explores debates about geology and phrenology—two of the diverse forms of knowledge that contributed to scientific naturalism—in late-Georgian Belfast. Having provided the venue for John Tyndall's infamous 1874 address as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Belfast occupies a central place in the story of nineteenth-century scientific naturalism. However, in uncovering the intricate and surprising ways in which scientific knowledge gained, or was denied, epistemic and civic credibility in Belfast, this discussion will demonstrate that naturalism, materialism and the relationship between science and religion were matters of public debate in the town long before Tyndall's intervention.
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Irish reading societies and circulating libraries founded before 1825: useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment. By. K. A. Manley. Pp 248. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2018. €58.50
[...]too, are the smaller workers’ book clubs and reading societies of late eighteenth-century Ulster (societies that are reasonably well-known to scholars of the 1790s, as a consequence of the authorities’ suspicion and, in some instances, violent suppression of them), and Manley also sheds light on the somewhat lesser-known reading societies, catering for both the working and middle classes, that were established in the early nineteenth century. [...]we encounter the remarkable Luke White, a Belfast pedlar, turned bookseller, who was said, when he died, to be Ireland's wealthiest man; the young William Carleton, who read scandalous books in the circulating library owned Mrs Richardson of Dublin's Francis Street; and Edward McGowran, also of Dublin, who appears in Patrick Kennedy's Legends of Mount Leinster (1855) as M'Gaurin, a long-suffering bookseller/library owner, buffeted by the competing demands of his customers and creditors. More broadly, Manley's account of the spread of circulating libraries may prove to be of interest to social historians, insofar as it illustrates the commercialisation of leisure and offers a sidelight on middle-class recreational practices, and his detailed account of Ulster's libraries and book clubs during the 1790s will be of interest to scholars of that troubled decade who have, as he remarks, ‘increasingly recognized’ their significance (p. 9). [...]while Manley goes on to suggest that the 1790s constitute ‘one of the few occasions when library history has collided with national history’, his volume offers further intriguing examples of such collision (p. 9).
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The \Natural Leaders\ and Their World: Politics, Culture and Society in Belfast, c. 1801-1832. (Reappraisals in Irish History, no. 1)
McBride reviews The \"Natural Leaders\" and Their World: Politics, Culture and Society in Belfast, c. 1801-1832 by Jonathan Jeffrey Wright.
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Development of a standardized MRI protocol for pancreas assessment in humans
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has detected changes in pancreas volume and other characteristics in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. However, differences in MRI technology and approaches across locations currently limit the incorporation of pancreas imaging into multisite trials. The purpose of this study was to develop a standardized MRI protocol for pancreas imaging and to define the reproducibility of these measurements. Calibrated phantoms with known MRI properties were imaged at five sites with differing MRI hardware and software to develop a harmonized MRI imaging protocol. Subsequently, five healthy volunteers underwent MRI at four sites using the harmonized protocol to assess pancreas size, shape, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), longitudinal relaxation time (T1), magnetization transfer ratio (MTR), and pancreas and hepatic fat fraction. Following harmonization, pancreas size, surface area to volume ratio, diffusion, and longitudinal relaxation time were reproducible, with coefficients of variation less than 10%. In contrast, non-standardized image processing led to greater variation in MRI measurements. By using a standardized MRI image acquisition and processing protocol, quantitative MRI of the pancreas performed at multiple locations can be incorporated into clinical trials comparing pancreas imaging measures and metabolic state in individuals with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
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