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The Industrial Resources of Ireland

Author: Robert Kane

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Sources

    Sir Robert Kane: Life and Work
  1. D. Ó Raghallaigh, Sir Robert Kane: a pioneer in science, industry and commerce, first president of Queen's College, Cork. (Cork: University Press 1942).
  2. J. J. Kerr, 'Sir Robert Kane: an apostle of Irish industries'. Dublin Historical Record 5 (1943) 137–146.
  3. T. S. Wheeler, The natural resources of Ireland: a series of discourses delivered before the Royal Dublin Society [In commemoration of the centenary of the publication by the society of Sir Robert Kane's 'The Industrial Resources of Ireland'] (Dublin: [s.n.] 1944).
  4. T. S. Wheeler, 'Sir Robert Kane: life and work'. Studies; an Irish quarterly review 33 (1944) 158–168, 316–330.
  5. T. S. Wheeler, 'Sir Robert Kane: first president of Q.C.C.' Cork University Rsecord 3 (1945) 29–38.
  6. Desmond Clarke, 'Sir Robert Kane'. Administration 16 (1968) 155–159.
  7. Enda Leaney, 'Missionaries of science: provincial lectures in nineteenth-century Ireland'. Irish Historical Studies 34:135 (2005) 266–288.
    Further reading: A selection
  1. Christian Moritz Rühlmann, Die technische Mechanik und Maschinenlehre (Dresden and Leipzig 1842–44; second fully updated and enlarged edition 1845).
  2. William Tighe, Statistical Survey of the County of Kilkenny (Dublin 1802).
  3. John Ramsay McCulloch, Statistical Account of the British Empire, 2 volumes (London 1837).
  4. Edward Wakefield, An Account of Ireland, statistical and political, 2 volumes (London 1812).
  5. Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès, Statistique de la Grande Bretagne et de l'lrlande (Paris 1837–38).
  6. Jelinger Cookson Symons, Arts and Artizans at Home and Abroad: with with sketches of the progress of foreign manufactures (Edinburgh 1839).
  7. Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures: or, an Exposition of the scientific, moral, and commercial economy of the Factory System of Great Britain (London 1835).
  8. Gerard Boate, Ireland's Naturall History (London 1652. Reprinted as 'Gerard Boate's natural history of Ireland', edited, with an introduction, by Thomas E. Jordan, New York 2006).
  9. Richard John Griffith, First Report to the Commissioners on the Bogs of Ireland, Parliamentary Report (1810) and subsequent reports (1811–1812).
  10. Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, Tour in England, Ireland and France in the years 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 and, 1829, (4 vols.), translated by Sarah Austin. (London 1832).
  11. David Low, Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1834).
  12. James Finlay Weir Johnston, Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, two volumes (New York 1843).
  13. Johann Georg Kohl, Travels in Ireland (London 1844). First published as 'Reisen in Irland' (Dresden und Leipzig 1843). [Available online at CELT.]
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. The Industrial Resources of Ireland. Robert Kane First edition [417 pages] Hodges & Smith Dublin (1844)

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Created: By Robert Kane (1844)

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [GA] Some words and phrases are in Irish.
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Language: [FR] Some words are in French.

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