Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland: Novelty, Experiment and Widening Horizons Fitzgerald Alison
Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland: Novelty, Experiment and Widening Horizons Fitzgerald Alison Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. This collection…
Specifikacia Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland: Novelty, Experiment and Widening Horizons Fitzgerald Alison
Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland: Novelty, Experiment and Widening Horizons Fitzgerald Alison
Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. This collection investigates a wide and varied range of the innovations. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explored, the novelties in the domestic sphere and daily life remain hazy.
Through commodities like sugar and through personal experiences many in Ireland confronted the unfamiliar and exotic. Changes in how homes were furnished and decorated, what shops stocked, what was available to plant in gardens, what the newspapers published, how the poor might be fed economically and employed usefully are all investigated. ' Novelty' - in individuals' lives and of goods - was at a premium.
Those from Ireland gazed at the heavens, travelled to the Caribbean, devised manufactures to improve daily life, or speculated about how to release the untapped potential of the island.