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Bertram Windle: The Honan Bequest and the Modernisation of University College Cork, 1904-1919
Dermot Keogh
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Hardcover. Bertram Windle was a doctor, a scientist, an archaeologist, an anthropologist, a writer on English literature and evolution, and President of Queen's/University College Cork. During his time in Ireland between 1904 and 1919, he had a major impact on the development of higher education and the development of the National University of Ireland. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, ports., plans, facsim. BIC Classification: BM; HBJD1; JNM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 754. 20th Century Ireland. 352pp
Bertram Windle was a doctor, a scientist, an archaeologist, an anthropologist, a writer on English literature and evolution, and President of Queen's/University College Cork. During his time in Ireland between 1904 and 1919, he had a major impact on the development of higher education and the development of the National University of Ireland. Windle was a privileged participant in Irish public affairs with friends in the British Government, Dublin Castle, the Irish Parliamentary Party, the Gaelic League and the Catholic Church. The son of a Church of Ireland rector, he studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin. A convert to Catholicism ... Read more
Bertram Windle was a doctor, a scientist, an archaeologist, an anthropologist, a writer on English literature and evolution, and President of Queen's/University College Cork. During his time in Ireland between 1904 and 1919, he had a major impact on the development of higher education and the development of the National University of Ireland. Windle was a privileged participant in Irish public affairs with friends in the British Government, Dublin Castle, the Irish Parliamentary Party, the Gaelic League and the Catholic Church. The son of a Church of Ireland rector, he studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin. A convert to Catholicism ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184738
SKU
V9781859184738
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About Dermot Keogh
Dermot Keogh is Professor of History at University College Cork, Jean Monet Emeritus Professor, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and is the author of Jack Lynch- a Biography (2008). Ann Keogh, who co-authored this book, is a specialist in the history of religious art and architecture in twentieth century Ireland.
Reviews for Bertram Windle: The Honan Bequest and the Modernisation of University College Cork, 1904-1919
"Drawing extensively on the extraordinarily candid papers of Sir Bertram Windle, the renowned President who presided over the transformation of Queen's College into University College Cork after 1908, Professor Dermot Keogh sketches not only a memorable portrait of a remarkable personality, but illuminates the world of the university and of the rising Catholic middle classes in a manner that ... Read more