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William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse : Astronomy and the castle in nineteenth-century Ireland.
This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s. He was a remarkable engineer, who built enor...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2015.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |