Map of a Nation (70 page)

89
not perceptible to the eye
‘The Irish Trigonometrical Survey’,
The Belfast News-Letter
, 10165, 18 November 1834.

90
41,640.8873 feet long
See Andrews, J.H., 2006, pp. 44–9.

91
You may conceive
‘The Irish Trigonometrical Survey’,
The Belfast News-Letter
, 10165, 18 November 1834.

92
William Rowan Hamilton
For accounts of Hamilton’s life and achievements, see Graves; Hamilton, William Rowan, 1931; Hankins; and O’Connell.

93
did not look through his telescopes
De Vere, p. 47.

94
the geometry of light
See Hamilton, William Rowan, 1833, especially pp. 3–5.

95
Law of Conical Refraction
See Babbage, p. 107; Graves, I, pp. 636–7; Hamilton, 1833, p. 5; Hamilton, William Rowan, 1931, I, pp. x–xi.

96
an essential requisite
Graves, I, pp. 256–7.

97
the only operations
William Rowan Hamilton, Icosian Game Publications, Hamilton Papers, Trinity College Dublin, MS 1492/379/1-6.

98
none of her family
W.E. Hamilton to William Rowan Hamilton, Hamilton Papers, TCD, MS 7762-72/1328, 26 May 1857.

99
how much pleasure
William Rowan Hamilton, Notebook, TCD, MS 1492/16, ff. 20–21 [n.d.].

100
recognise[d] it as a county
William Rowan Hamilton, Notebook, TCD, MS 1492/16, ff. 20–21 [n.d.].

101
an ‘Admirable Crichton’
Maria Edgeworth to Honora Edgeworth, 28 August 1824, cited in Graves, I, p. 161.

102
[she] who forms the great
William Rowan Hamilton to Grace Edgeworth, 27 August 1824, cited in Graves, I, p. 162.

103
carried off
William Rowan Hamilton to Eliza Hamilton, 19 March 1828, in Graves, I, p. 291.

104
an educational tour
Maria Edgeworth to William Rowan Hamilton, TCD, MS 7762-72/156, 27 April 1828; Maria Edgeworth to William Rowan Hamilton, TCD, MS 7762-72/163, 20 May 1828; William Rowan Hamilton to Maria Edgeworth, TCD, MS 7762-72/162, 23 May 1828.

105
the map-publisher Bartholomews
I am grateful to Yolande Hodson for this
information
.

106
a situation among the calculators
William Rowan Hamilton to Maria Edgeworth, TCD, MS 7762-72/157, 30 April 1828.

107
with the intention of reconnoitring
William Rowan Hamilton to Revd [Thomas Romney] Robinson, 23 October 1828, cited in Graves, I, p. 303.

108
Lieutenant Drummond at home
William Rowan Hamilton to Revd [Thomas Romney] Robinson, 23 October 1828, cited in Graves, I, p. 303.

109
Captain Everest
William Rowan Hamilton to Revd [Thomas Romney] Robinson, cited in Graves, I, pp. 335–6.

110
The upright, mutton-chopped
For accounts of George Everest, see Edney, 1997; Keay; Smith, James Raymond, 1998.

111
this Great Arc of India
See Edney, 1997; and Keay.

112
Never-rest
See Smith, James Raymond, 1998, p. i.

113
conversations with Colby
Edney, 1997, p. 35; Keay, pp. 101–4.

114
work on the Meridional Arc
William Rowan Hamilton to George Airy, 25 July 1830, cited in Graves, I, p. 377.

115
you are so wrapt up
Thomas Colby to William Rowan Hamilton, TCD, MS 7762-72/385, 16 November 1833.

116
somewhat of a universalist
William Rowan Hamilton to Graves, 4 May 1842, cited in Graves, II, p. 376. For a history of the Royal Irish Academy, and Hamilton’s role, see Ó Raifeartaigh.

117
own personal conviction
Thomas Colby to William Rowan Hamilton, TCD, MS 7762-72/385, 16 November 1833.

118
Hamilton and Thomas Romney Robinson collaborated
See Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 97; Graves, II, pp. 281, 298–9; Portlock, pp. 89–90; Robinson, Thomas Romney.

119
telescope correctly on the spot
Thomas Aiskew Larcom to William Rowan Hamilton, TCD, MS 7762–72/852, 13 May 1842.

120
There can be no harm
Thomas Aiskew Larcom to William Rowan Hamilton, TCD, MS 7762–72/851, 4 May 1842.

121
one of the friends who took
Graves, II, p. 61.

122
Dugald Stewart
See Stewart, Dugald, II, p. 205 (note).

123
we are not liable
See Stewart, Dugald, II, p. 205 (note).

124
of the philosophy of mind
Graves, II, pp. 140–3.

125
a language of pure space
See Graves, II, pp. 138–43.

126
a new light flashed
Kant, 2003, p. 19.

127
true method
Kant, 2003, p. 19.

128
something simple, perfect, and one
William Rowan Hamilton, ‘Appendix 2: “Waking Dream: or Fragment of a Dialogue between Pappus and Euclid, in the Meads of Asphodel”’, pp. 662–71 in Graves, I, p. 664.

129
walked back with our party
Graves, I, p. 264.

130
very prosing
Maria Edgeworth, cited in Inglis-Jones, pp. 219–20.

131
Mr Secretary Drummond
Thomas Drummond to William Rowan Hamilton, 11 January 1836, in Wordsworth, 1967–93, VI, p. 151.

132
calculating celebrity
Thomas Drummond to William Rowan Hamilton, 28 September 1835, in Wordsworth, 1967–93, VI, p. 98.

133
Thomas Spring Rice
Alan Hill (note 1), in Wordsworth, 1967–93, VI, p. 690; William Wordsworth to Thomas Spring Rice, 28 April 1839, in Wordsworth, 1967–93, VI, p. 690; William Wordsworth to Dora Wordsworth, 9 May 1839, in Wordsworth, 1967–93, VI, p. 692.

134
short tour of Ireland
For discussions of Wordsworth’s trip to Ireland and its effect, see Fackler. Further examinations of his attitude to Ireland can be found in Marjarum; and McCormack, pp. 18–42.

135
Wordsworth made sure to buy one
See Shaver and Shaver, p. 191.

136
the relationship between literature and science
Much work has been done in the last thirty years into the relationship between literature and science, particularly with the aim of showing that ‘the simple view that Romanticism … was
uniformly
opposed to science, has been untenable for a long time’ (Wyatt, 1995, p. 3). With respect to the relationship between Wordsworth and Hamilton and its context, I have found the following works helpful: Cunningham and Jardine; Eichner; Fulford; Fulford, Lee and Kitson; Haefner; Holmes; Jordanova; Richardson; Roe; Ruston; Thomas and Ober; Wyatt, 1995 and 2001. The cultural interactions of mid-nineteenth-century Irish scientists are explored in Eagleton; Foster; Green; Patten; and Ryan. A more detailed account of my research into the friendship between Wordsworth and William Rowan Hamilton can be found in Hewitt, 2006 and 2007.

137
not entirely overlook
Wordsworth, 1979, p. 192.

138
the relation those abstractions bear
Wordsworth, 1979, p. 116. A discussion of Wordsworth’s interest in geometry can be found in Simpson.

1
peasant garb
Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 122.

2
He had been first educated
For an account of O’Donovan’s life, see Ó Muraile.

3
the living repertory
O’Donovan, 1856, II, p. 159 (note).

4
Hardiman was a committed researcher
See Hardiman.

5
After ages of neglect and decay
Hardiman, p. i.

6
geography is a noble and practical science
Colby and Larcom, p. 7.

7
a full face portrait
Thomas Aiskew Larcom, loose notes, Larcom Papers, NLI, MS 7790, 2 July 1861.

8
in 1828 he married
See Baigent, ‘Colby, Thomas’.

9
A separate Boundary Commission
See Andrews, J.H., 2006, pp. 32–4, 60–2.

10
2s a day
Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 62.

11
the people deny
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 8 October 1834, in O’Donovan, 1992, p. 135.

12
I cannot get the people to agree
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 15 August 1836, in O’Donovan, 2001b, p. 82.

13
Mr Griffith is an excellent and able engineer
Morning Chronicle
, 24491, p. 4, 20 April 1848.

14
a permanent Geological Survey
For a stimulating account of early-nineteenth-
century
geological mapping, see Winchester.

15
It would have been of great importance
Portlock, pp. 42–3. For a history of the Ordnance Survey’s involvement with geology, see Close, 1969, pp. 61–3.

16
no person but a man
J. Jardine to Thomas Colby, December 1819, cited in Close, 1969, p. 61.

17
the most minute and accurate
Thomas Colby, Annual Report, Larcom Papers, NLI, MS 7555 (1826).

18
a grant was obtained
Cited in Close, 1969, p. 62.

19
gentleman geologist
Secord.

20
a regular fun-engine
Fox, I, p. 5; cited in Secord.

21
morbid apprehension of criticism
Portlock, p. 3.

22
It is impossible not to regret
Portlock, p. 3.

23
paper landscape
Andrews, J.H., 2006.

24
fully rounded national survey
Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 56.

25
a great variety of materials
Thomas Colby, Annual Report, Larcom Papers, NLI MS 7555 (1826).

26
a great deal of information
Thomas Colby, Annual Report, Larcom Papers, NLI MS 7555 (1826).

27
A number of map-makers
See Arrowsmith; Beaufort; Petty, 1851; Sampson.

28
one of the earliest uses
Arrowsmith, p. 5.

29
artificial state
Colby and Larcom, p. 17.

30
social economy and productive economy
Colby and Larcom, p. 8.

31
food; fuel; dress
Larcom, ‘Heads of inquiry’, NLI, MS 7550 ([1832 (?) or 18 March 1834 (?)]).

32
would we publish any book
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 27 March 1834, in O’Donovan, 2001a, p. 14.

33
men who work like machines
Cited in Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 137.

34
steam engine rapidity
Larcom to Griffith, 10 November 1836: VLB. Survey of Ireland: Return to House of Commons Order, 16 June 1837, H.C. 1837 (522), p. xxxix.

35
to make the Maps a standard
Thomas Aiskew Larcom to Thomas Colby, 12 May 1842, in O’Donovan, 2001a, p. xl.

36
to trace all the mutations
Colby and Larcom, p. 8.

37
the name of each place
Thomas Colby, ‘Instructions for the Interior Survey of Ireland’, pp. 309–21 in Andrews, J.H., 2006 (p. 311). A discussion of the toponymy of Ireland can be found in Andrews, J.H., 1992.

38
by 1826 the number of Irishmen
For details regarding the employment of Irish surveyors on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, see Andrews, J.H., 2006, pp. 62–6.

39
outnumbered the sappers
See Andrews, J.H., 2006, pp. 91, 65.

40
immediately, offering me a situation
John O’Donovan to Todd, 12 May 1842, in O’Donovan, 2001a, p. xxxv.

41
besides two or three more
Stokes, p. 96. For an exploration of the principal
personalities
of the Topographical Branch, see Chuto, 1976.

42
strange admission
Larcom to Boteler, 4 October 1836, Ordnance Survey
memorandums
: Cavan, Ordnance Survey Office, p. 120.

43
all sorts of old documents
William F. Wakeman, cited in Stokes, p. 96.

44
useful, laudable, and patriotic pursuit
Cited in Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 123.

45
a kind of one-man local history department
Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 128.

46
I was never so disgusted
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 15 April 1834, in O’Donovan, 2001a, p. 40.

47
in the present artificial state
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 3 September 1834, in O’Donovan, 1992, p. 59.

48
O’Donovan really writes in a way
Thomas Aiskew Larcom to George Petrie, NLI, MS 7566, 17 June 1839.

49
defaced (or disgraced)
Thomas Aiskew Larcom to George Petrie, NLI, MS 7566, 17 June 1839.

50
very serious, cold, and un-Irish
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 8 September 1837, Ordnance Survey memorandums: Roscommon, Ordnance Survey Office, p. 154.

51
as sceptical an enquirer
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 28 October 1835, in O’Donovan, 2001a, p. 120.

52
exceeding (excessive)
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 28 October 1835, in O’Donovan, 2001a, p. 120.

53
evident approach
Petrie, p. 18.

54
a region of fancy and fable
Petrie, p. 18.

55
Ossian, the son of Fingal
MacPherson, 1762.

56
convincing proof
MacPherson, 1996, p. 208.

57
The poems of Ossian
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 26 August 1834, in O’Donovan, 1992, p. 43.

58
incontestible authority
O’Donovan, 1862, p. 7.

59
that one among the modern names
Thomas Aiskew Larcom to Thomas Colby, 12 May 1842, in O’Donovan, 2001a, pp. xl–xli.

60
all the rhymes and rags of history
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 30 August 1835, in O’Donovan, 2001a, p. 19.

61
the people do not agree
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 16 August 1834, in O’Donovan, 1992, p. 24.

62
forked tongue
James Clarence Mangan, who worked alongside John O’Donovan on the Topographical Branch, used the image of a forked tongue in his
Autobiography
(p. 14), arguably as a metaphor to depict the linguistic state of Ireland. See Chuto, 1988; Hewitt, 2007, pp. 281–339.

63
mangled
Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 121

64
To comply with the general custom
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 12 July 1836, in O’Donovan, 2001b, p. 4.

65
Money Sterling!
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 17 September 1836, in O’Donovan, 1992, p. 100.

66
wild rhapsody
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 26 August 1834, in O’Donovan, 1992, p. 47.

67
trace[d] his course
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 26 August 1834, in O’Donovan, 1992, pp. 45–6.

68
skin as pale and taut
Ryan, p. 164.

69
The Man in the Cloak
Mangan, 2002a, pp. 239–66.

70
of fantastic shape
McCall, John, 1975, p. 27.

71
looked like the spectre
Duffy, pp. 109–10.

72
the animal spirits
Duffy, pp. 109–10.

73
fle[e] from the admiration
Duffy, pp. 109–10.

74
poète maudit
Moore, p. 117.

75
pens and ink – gratis
John O’Donovan, cited in Ryan, p. 165.

76
one short poem
John O’Donovan, cited in Ryan, p. 165.

77
the mad poet
Ryan, p. 164.

78
[Mangan] says that I am his enemy
Ryan, p. 164.

79
severe, coldly-judging
James Clarence Mangan, ‘Sketches and Reminiscences of Irish Writers: John O’Donovan’, in Mangan, 2002b, pp. 215–18.

80
the merit of fidelity
James Clarence Mangan, ‘Anthologia Hibernia: No. III’, in Mangan, 2002b, p. 167.

81
bad Etymology and sad Orthography
James Clarence Mangan, ‘Bards of this Beautiful Isle’, in Mangan, 1996, p. 38.

82
Dates, arithmetical tack
James Clarence Mangan, ‘Bards of this Beautiful Isle’, in Mangan, 1996, p. 38.

83
it was even rumoured
See Eugene O’Curry to Thomas Davis, in O’Donoghue, D.J., pp. 120–1.

84
Versified Paraphrase
O’Daly, p. 87

85
this is incorrect
O’Daly, pp. 87 (note 5), 92 (note 2), 95 (note 2), 97 (note 2).

86
The few broken columns
Mangan, 1968, p. 31.

87
a fifth province
Friel, 1999, p. 106.

88
has grown out of
Friel, 1999, p. 106.

89
into the King’s good English
Friel, 1981, p. 30.

90
imprisoned in a linguistic contour
Friel, 1981, p. 52. Cronin offers a
compelling
discussion of the importance of acts of translation to Irish history and culture.

91
a bloody military operation
Friel, 1981, p. 36.