Queen's Thinkers

by Livingstone, David N.

• ISBN13: 9780856408038
• ISBN10: 0856408034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: Blackstaff Pr Ltd

Summary

This volume charts the intellectual life of Queen's University Belfast, telling the compelling story of the thinkers who established it as a world-class institution.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
P.G. Tait, Queen's College and Ulster-Scots Natural Philosophy	p. 7
James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition	p. 19
John O'Donovan and the Development of Celtic Studies	p. 31
William Whitla and His Legacy	p. 45
James Thomson and the Culture of a Victorian Engineer	p. 57
Helen Waddell and Literary Europe	p. 69
Maurice Powicke: Medieval Historical Scholarship and Queen's	p. 83
John Bell and the Quantum World	p. 93
Philip Larkin and Belfast Literary Culture	p. 105
Eric Ashby's Vice-chancellorship of Queen's, 1950-1959	p. 115
E. Estyn Evans and the Interpretation of the Irish Landscape	p. 131
David Robert Bates and the Belfast School of Physics	p. 141
J.C. Beckett and the Making of Modern Irish Historiography	p. 149
John Blacking and Ethnomusicology	p. 159
Chronicling a University	p. 171
Afterword	p. 187
Acknowledgements	p. 191
Index	p. 193
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