Articles on Royal Irish Academy, Including - William Rowan Hamilton, John Pentland Mahaffy, Roderick Murchison, Edmund Davy, William Bald, John Joseph Lee, John David Brewer, Anthony Glavin, Margaret Stokes, Sylvester O'Halloran (Paperback)

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