I recently happened across the oldest specimen that I have ever seen in the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium. It was collected in August...
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Wesley Gilbert Bowman, age 43, passed away Friday, August 6, 2021 at his home. Wes was born on November 23, 1977 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century early Irish scholars faced stiff institutional and academic opposition, for politics and art intermingled, sometimes...
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Margaret McNair Stokes (1832-1900) was an esteemed antiquarian and artist. Her work on early Christian architecture and monumental sculpture in Ireland was...
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How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage and advocating seize-the-day hedonism achieve widespread popularity in...
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Early medieval Irish society operated on an elaborate power structure formalized by law, practiced through social interaction, and maintained by tacit...
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The Ballylickey botanist; the Skibbereen astronomer; the Cloyne caterpillar collector, Madame Dragonfly. Robert Hume highlights the lives...
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Ellen Hutchins has been immortalised in colourful paint on Lapp's Quay as part of the Mad About Cork series of street box paintings.
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Ellen Hutchins from Ballylickey, Ireland's first woman botanist, born on St Patrick's Day, 1785, at Ballylickey House, between Bantry and Glengarriff.
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This richly coloured watercolour painting depicts the ill-fated lovers Hellelil and Hildebrand, meeting on the stone stairway of a medieval tower.
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