#irishphilosophy — Public Fediverse posts

From the revamped blog:

Adomnán and the Law of the Innocent

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/04/02/adomnan/

#IrishPhilosophy #Adomnan

#SilentSunday #IrishPhilosophy

A stained glass window in memory of #OliverGoldsmith, depicting one of the characters from "The Deserted Village", the devoted clergyman. From
St Munis CoI, #Forgney Co. Longford, which lies south of #NewcastleWood.

Goldsmith is believed to have been born in the townland of #Pallas, just north of Newcastle Wood (best know as the home of #CenterParcsLongford).

The poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44292/the-deserted-village

Link to the original image https://www.gloine.ie/search/window/14994/w03?i=1

"In practice the text of #Lucretius rests upon two Leiden manuscripts [...] The older and better is O (Voss. Lat. F. 30)Offsite Link. It was written not long after 800 in the Palace School of Charlemagne. A contemporary corrector, using a distinctive insular hand, emended the text and in places filled up lacunae left by the orignal scribe. This hand has been recognized as that of Dungal" https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3217

More on the Irish scholar Dúngal https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26/dungal/

#history #IrishPhilosophy

One of #DIBs featured bios today is scholar Dorothy Moore https://www.dib.ie/biography/moore-dorothy-nee-king-other-married-name-dury-a10294

(The others are also 17th century women:
Boyle, Margaret (1623 - 1689)
Boyle, Elizabeth (1613 - 1691)
Barry, Alice (1608 - 1667)
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605 - 1678)
https://www.dib.ie/ )

#DorothyMoore #IrishPhilosophy

@rmathematicus review of Michelle DiMeo's book "Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister".

Not just an elder sister: https://wp.me/py7Pg-23G

#LadyRanelagh #IrishPhilosophy

Random 18th century weirdness: St Augustine referred to as St Austin. (Confusing until context made it clear.)

#AmReading #EarlyModons #IrishPhilosophy

Do love this paper, not least for its title

"What the Women of Dublin Did with John Locke"

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/royal-institute-of-philosophy-supplements/article/abs/what-the-women-of-dublin-did-with-john-locke/55BF4CAA5787ACA9A0CEFDE174A15B9A

#locke #dublin #Triumfeminate #earlymodons #IrishPhilosophy

Don’t try this at home: #GeorgeBerkeley and tar-water – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/03/12/berkeley-and-tar-water/

#IrishPhilosophy

#TIL (via #RiversOfLondon by Ben Aaronovitch) that #RobertBoyle wrote the earliest known report of the #bloodhound 's ability to track people (here: https://books.google.ie/books?id=ktYTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183 , he also discussed the scenting ability of other breeds, including Irish #dogs hunting wolves)

#IrishPhilosophy #NaturalHistory

Not only did Mary #Wollstonecraft visit Ireland and like it, she was an important influence on #DanielOConnell

A liberal who corresponded with Jeremy #Bentham for a time and tirelessly campaigned against slavery & for Catholic Emancipation, and Repeal, O'Connell sent his children to the school of Wollstonecraft's sister in Dublin.

Daniel O’Connell’s philosophical influences
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/15/modern-prometheus-oconnell/

O'Connell as Frankenstein's monster
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw206038/Political-Frankensteins--Alarmed-at-the-progress-of-a-Giant-of-their-own-Creation

#IrishPhilosophy

RT @JoeHumphreys42 on Twitter

[Wollstonecraft]'s breakthrough work "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790) was ironically an attack on TCD grandee #EdmundBurke who she lambasted with a fair dose of anti-Irish sentiment and reverse sexism.

UCD's Katherine O’Donnell explains here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/was-ireland-s-most-prominent-philosopher-too-womanly-1.3498724

Link to Katherine O’Donnell's paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336239122_Effeminate_Edmund_Burke_and_the_masculine_voice_of_Mary_Wollstonecraft

The full thread https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeHumphreys42/status/1620820823673282560

#IrishPhilosophy #Wollstonecraft

Burke to the Future: The Evolution of Conservatism

How #EdmundBurke became the favourite of the Conservative Party and (as a result) the "founder of conservatism".

https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/burke-future-evolution-conservatism

From "History Today"
#IrishPhilosophy

#ConDrury on rituals as "expressions of friendliness, reverence, and of celebration", including those of #Christmas.

From the preface of “The Danger of Words”.

#IrishPhilosophy #IrishPhilosophyOTD

New one on me, #Yeats water!

(At Coffee Works, #Lucan)

#IrishPhilosophy

Incendiary: #JohnToland and the birth of the #IrishEnlightenment – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/

#IrishPhilosophy #Deism #Freethinking #JohnLocke

On the mild morning of 16th December 1796, the 43 ship fleet of L’Expédition d’Irlande left Brest, France on its way to invade Ireland. #WolfeTone was aboard one.

They arrived in Bantry Bay on 22nd. Severe storms along the Atlantic coast meant they failed to disembark troops & ultimately led to the fleet giving up the attempt.

Castlereagh arrived there with troops on 7th January 1797 and watched the last French ships leave Bantry Bay.

https://www.historyireland.com/close-enough-toss-ships-biscuit-ashore-french-fleet-bantry-bay-1796/

#IrishHistory #IrishPhilosophy

"I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against alarge stone, till he rebounded from it, ‘I refute it THUS.’" - #DrJohnson's attempted refutation of #Berkeley as recorded by Boswell.

The reason this doesn't work as an argument is outlined in this post, with bonus #JonathanSwift and #EdmundBurke
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/12/berkeleys-immaterialism/
#IrishPhilosophy

#IrishPhilosophy and the #SouthSeaBubble (2)

Molesworth (along with other Irish members at Westminster such as #ThomasBrodrick and #JohnTrenchard) took a lead in pursuing those responsible for the South Sea Bubble fraud.

Trenchard went further, writing "Cato's Letters" with #ThomasGordon, which called for "liberty, accountability, and checks upon the wealthy interests who manipulated government for their own ends." These were very influential in America.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/857/cato-s-letters

James Taaffe played a key role in the #Remonstrance affair (the Remonstrance was a controversial expression of loyalty towards #CharlesII drawn up by #PeterWalsh aimed at gaining #toleration for Catholics.)

Taaffe was sent to Ireland to restore unity to the Irish church by explicitly denouncing Walsh and his followers on the pope's behalf. He pretended he had powers from the Pope he did not have, and it all went downhill from there.

https://www.dib.ie/biography/taaffe-james-a8435

#IrishPhilosophy

@jdmccafferty

In January 1417 Poggio Bracciolini discovered #DeRerumNatura (written by #Lucretius in the 1st century BC outlining #Epicureanism) in a German monastic library.

That copy was copied from an earlier 9th century text corrected by an Irish monk, #Dúngal.

Dúngal also wrote a book explaining to #Charlemagne how two solar eclipses could occur in the same year, and, incidentally, the structure of the #cosmos as he understood it.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26/dungal/

#IrishPhilosophy #HistoryOfScience

The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, #LadyRanelagh

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/the-almost-forgotten-story-of-katherine-jones-lady-ranelagh

#podcast #IrishPhilosophy

#LadyRanelagh died on 3 December 1791 in Pall Mall, St. James's, #London.

A member of the Hartlib Circle, influential in her family and in intellectual circles, called "the greatest figure in all the revolutions of these kingdoms for about fifty years" by Gilbert Burnet.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19/ranelagh/

Bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/jones-lady-katherine-a4330
Image from https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo59259887.html

#IrishPhilosophy #IrishPhilosophyOTD

#JohnToland became the Republican Mythmaker via contacts he made in Dublin before he left in a hurry.

His arrival had triggered much writing refuting his #ChristianityNotMysterious (and a series of letters between #Locke and #WilliamMolyneux, which form the basis for the post below).

This controversary was the trigger for the #IrishEnlightenment.

Incendiary: John Toland and the birth of the Irish Enlightenment http://irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/
#IrishPhilosophy

According to the Ussher Memoirs (p. 86)
https://archive.org/details/usshermemoirsorg00wrig
#JamesUssher was born in the parish of Nicholas Within, and baptised either in the parish church, or in St Werburgh's Church.

The Church of St Nicholas Within that may have seen Ussher's baptism was replaced in 1707 (part of Ab #WilliamKing 's rebuilding scheme)

See https://www.archiseek.com/2010/st-nicholas-within-nicholas-st-dublin/ for more & for picture below.

#IrishPhilosophy

Among the daughters of the #GreatEarl in that @EngHistRev review https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceac164/6843116
was #LadyRanelagh , member of the Hartlib Circle, chemist & thinker, "the greatest figure in all the revolutions of these kingdoms for about fifty years" (according to Gilbert Burnet)

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19/ranelagh/
#IrishPhilosophy

#WolfeTone's resolution regarding the need to include Catholics was buried. Angered at the prejudice he perceived in that act, Tone wrote his "Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland".

Based on Paine among others, Tone argues for the desperate need for political reform. Such reform, he says cannot be successful if it ignores the majority: Catholics. He rebutts arguments that Catholics cannot be trusted.

His pamphlet was widely popular.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/category/person/long-18th-century/theobald-wolfe-tone/

#IrishPhilosophy

Theobald #WolfeTone died in prison #OTD 1798. He had been a founder member of the #UnitedIrishmen in 1791, had personally sought assistance from the French and was aboard a ship at the aborted invasion at Bantry Bay in 1796, and a leader in the #1798Rising.

He was buried in Bodenstown, Co. Kildare.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/tone-theobald-wolfe-a8590

#IrishPhilosophy #IrishPhilosophyOTD

A post written for the 2015 #WorldPhilosophyDay

The “Incomparable Lady Ranelagh”
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/19/ranelagh/

#IrishPhilosophy #LadyRanelagh

Toland believed matter was "the source of life itself" but argued against Bayle's panpsychism (that the property of thinking is inherent in matter), though not successfully.

Materialism and panpsychism (Bayle and Toland edition)
https://wp.me/p25oy3-N

#TheModSquad #JohnToland #IrishPhilosophy

#OliverGoldsmith was born (probably in #Pallas, near where Centerparc Longford is now) probably on 10 Nov 1728. An alumnus of #TCD, he lived by his writing: novelist, playwright, poet, reviewer, essayist. His work included philosophical content including the review of #EdmundBurke's theory of #aesthetics described here https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04/goldsmith-coda/

Goldsmith's biography in #DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/goldsmith-oliver-a3516

Image: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldsmith.jpg

#IrishPhilosophy #IrishPhilosophyOTD

#ThomasRussell #UnitedIrishman was a radical:
"He accused [the aristocracy] of using their powers and privileges to frustrate the divine plan of liberty and justice for all, and contended that all men have not only the right, but indeed the duty, to concern themselves with government and politics. Only if legislation seeks to serve ‘the whole family of mankind’ [...] can there be some hope that it will reflect the natural justice ordained by God."

https://www.historyireland.com/thomas-russell-united-irishman/

#IrishPhilosophy