With Helena C. G. Chesney, ed., Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History (Dublin: Lilliput 1997), 672pp.

CONTENTS: List of Illustrations [vii]; Preface [ix]; John Feehan, The Heritage of the Rocks [3]; John Wilson Foster, Encountering Traditions [23]; Christopher Moriarty, The Early Naturalists [71]; Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, Fluctuations in Fortune: Three Hundred Years of Irish Geology [9]; Brendan Mcwilliams, The Kingdom of the Air: The Progress of Meteorology [115]; Eoin Neeson, Woodland in History and Culture [133]; Donal Synnott, Botany in Ireland [157]; Peter Foss and Catherine O’Connell, Bogland: Study and Utilization [184]; j. H. Andrews, Paper Landscapes: Mapping Ireland’s Physical Geography [199]; James P. O’Connor, Insects and Entomology  [219]; Patrick Sleeman, Mammals and Mammalogy [241]; Clive Hutchinson, Bird Study in Ireland [262]; Christopher Moriarty, Fish and Fisheries [283]; Michael D. Guiry, No Stone Unturned: Robert Lloyd Praeger and the Major Surveys [299]. Out of Ireland: Naturalists Abroad, 1. John Wilson Foster, Introduction [308]; 2. Sheila Landy, Francis Beaufort [327]; 3. Paul Hackney, Edward Sabine [331]; 4. Helena C. G. Chesney, Francis Rawdon Chesney [337]; 5. Paul Hackney, Francis Leopold McClintock [342]; 6. Helena C. G. Chesney and Robert Nash, Robert Templeton [349]; 7. Mary G. McGeown, John Macoun [354]; 8. Iain Higgins, Henry Chichester Hart [360]; Helena C. G. Chesney, Enlightenment and Education [367]; David N. Livingstone, Darwin in Belfast: The Evolution Debate [387] John Wilson Foster, Nature and Nation in the Nineteenth Century [409]; Sean Lysaght, Contrasting Natures: The Issue of Names [440]; Dorinda Outram, The History of Natural History: Grand Narrative or Local Lore? [461]; David Cabot, Essential Texts in Irish Natural History [472]; Martyn Anglesea, The Art of Nature Illustration [497]; Michael Viney, Wild Sports and Stone Guns [524]; Terence Reeves-Smyth, The Natural History of Demesnes [549]; John Feehan, Threat and Conservation: Attitudes to Nature in Ireland [573]; John Wilson Foster, The Culture of Nature [597]; Notes on Contributors, 636; Index, 641