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Mar 11, 2016 · Wilde’s Celticism, his archaeological, antiquarian and topographic interests, and his knowledge of folklore and language informed his work as a historian. Wilde appears to have distanced himself from Ireland’s contentious political history, preferring other explorations of the country’s past.
- L Geary
- l.geary@ucc.ie
- 2016
Oct 21, 2021 · Many of William Wilde's achievements have been over-shadowed by the success and notoriety of his son, Oscar (1854–1900). However, although William Wilde was an innovator in the field of medicine and surgery, historians hesitate to rank him as a true academic physician scientist. 1 By today's standards Wilde's education was somewhat ...
- Patrick Boland, Sean P Hughes
- 2021
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However, although William Wilde was an innovator in the field of medicine and surgery, historians hesitate to rank him as a true academic physician scientist. 1 By today's standards Wilde's education was somewhat unconventional. He did not attend university though he understood the importance of such institutions.
Mar 18, 2016 · Materials and methods. Looking at the historical conditions that made possible such a career spanning such disparate worlds. Deploying methodologies developed by historians of medicine and sociologists of science, the article brings together Wilde the nineteenth century clinician and Dublin man of science, the Wilde of the Census and of the ...
- J. McGeachie
- 2016
As a historian, Wilde is probably best known for his demographic work, particularly his extraordinary contri-bution to the 1851 census of Ireland, which is arguably the finest of his polymathic achievements. The 1851 census dealt with the decade of the Great Famine, and much of Wilde’s other historical work was written in the Famine’s
- L Geary
- 2016
William Wilde’s Celticism, his archaeological, antiquarian and topographic interests, and his knowledge of folklore and language informed his work as a historian. Wilde appears to have distanced himself from Ireland’s contentious political history, preferring other explorations of the country’s past. At the beginning of 1846 he stated:
Wilde was the youngest of the three sons of Dr. Thomas Wilde of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon, where he was born in the spring of 1815. His paternal grand. father, Ralph, the son of a prosperous merchant, was from Dublin and settled in Castlereagh in the 1750s, and is described over the next twenty years as " dealer ".
