Eva Gore-Booth died at her home at 14 Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, on 30 June, 1926.

#DIB: https://dib.ie/biography/booth-eva-selina-gore-a0784

From Ireland to Manchester: Eva Gore-Booth and women’s labour
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2017/05/22/gore-booth-labour/

#EvaGoreBooth #IrishPhilosophyOTD

Today is #BloomsDay, the annual celebration of James Joyce, observed on the day (16 June) his 1922 novel #Ulysses takes place in 1904.

Among Joyce's many influences were the Irish Franciscan thinkers of the 17th century https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/06/16/joyce-franciscans/

His most extensive philosophical exploration in Ulysses is of Berkeley's theory of vision (Episode 3: Proteus) https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/16/veil-of-the-temple/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #JamesJoyce

William Butler Yeats was born #OnThisDay 1865 in Sandymount Avenue, Dublin.

#DIB: https://www.dib.ie/biography/yeats-william-butler-a9160

Son of the painter John B. Yeats, he met Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1886 but they had little to say to each other. His meeting with Oscar Wilde in London in 1888 was very different. https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/06/12/wilde-about-yeats/

Yeats developed his own version of Wilde's theory of identity, and later created a esoteric philosophy of history.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/06/13/yeats-self-and-anti-self/

#WBYeats #IrishPhilosophyOTD

William Drennan (1754–1820), physician, patriot, and minor poet, was born #OTD 1754 at the manse of his father Thomas Drennan in Rosemary St., Belfast.

#DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/drennan-william-a2765

Founder of the United Irishmen: "A benevolent conspiracy—A Plot for the People—No Whig Club—no party Title—The Brotherhood its name—the right of Man and the greatest happiness of the greatest numbers its End." https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/02/05/benevolent-conspiracy/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #UnitedIrishmen

Oscar Wilde was released from prison after two years hard labour #OTD 1897.

#OscarWilde in #prison (Michèle Mendelssohn): https://www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/oscar-wilde-prison-michele-mendelssohn-english

While imprisoned, he wrote De Profundis (1897, pub 1905), a letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials.

Paris Review: how prison changed Wilde. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/10/13/suffering-is-one-very-long-moment/

After his release he left for France, where he wrote his last work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898). He died in 1900.

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

Philip Skelton (1707-87), religious writer, critic of Hume, a fast friend and a fast enemy who sold his library twice to raise money for famine relief, died in Dublin #otd in 1787.

#dib https://www.dib.ie/biography/skelton-philip-a8110

The eventful life of Philip Skelton, enemy of deism https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/05/04/philip-skelton/

The first critic of Hume's On miracles (whose criticisms Hume read for the printer, and said "print!") https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/04/26/debating-hume-on-miracles/

#hume #PhilipSkelton #deism #IrishPhilosophyOTD

Patrick Pearse, poet, writer, founder of Scoil Eanna (St Enda’s) in 1908 and commander-in-chief of the forces of the Irish Republic during the Easter Rising, was executed in Kilmainham Jail, #OTD 1916.

#DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/pearse-patrick-henry-a7247

This Man Had Kept A School – Pearse’s educational philosophy: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/11/10/pearse-education/

A right to rebel (including Pearse's take on rebellion) https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/27/right-to-rebel/

#pearse #education #rebellion #1916Rising #IrishPhilosophyOTD

Thomas Nugent died in London #OTD 1772 in London. Best known for his travel writing, esp. "The Grand Tour - containing an exact description of most of the cities, towns and remarkable places of Europe", he also translated important works of Enlightenment philosophy.

These included Montesquieu's Spirit of the laws, Burlamaqui's works on natural and political law, Voltaire's Essay on universal history and Rousseau's Emilius.

#DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/nugent-thomas-a6264

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #translator

#WilliamMolyneux, philosopher, born in Dublin #otd 1656. Creator of "Molyneux's problem", writer on natural and political philosophy.

#DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/molyneux-molyneaux-william-a5878

Molyneux's "The Case of Ireland" https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2017/10/11/the-case-of-ireland/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

#Messiah by #Handel was performed (for charity) for the first time at Fishamble Street, Dublin #OTD 1742.

#celbridge connection: Kathleen Connolly of #Castletown sold tickets for the charity fundraising concert, but unfortunately had to miss it herself due to illness.

Two #IrishPhilosophy posts:

A connection to Swift: Handel’s Messiah https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/04/13/swift-handels-messiah/

Handel’s Messiah, John Toland and the fight against Deism.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/04/13/words-messiah/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #JonathanSwift #JohnToland

Today is Easter in the Western Christian Church. It's Easter next Sunday, 16th April in the Orthodox churches.

But that's nothing in comparison with 7th century Ireland, where there might be 3 different dates for Easter on the island.

A post on the Irish contribution to the calculation of Easter, computus:

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/04/01/irish-computus/

#computus #easter #casca #IrishPhilosophyOTD

Edward Synge (1659-1741); bishop of Tuam, writer of a reply to Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious, preacher of toleration, was born #OTD in Inishannon, Co Cork in 1659.

#DIB bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/synge-edward-a8427

He provided the first positive answer to #MolyneuxsProblem, and #WilliamMolyneux wrote of it to Locke, and of Synge as the writer of "A Gentleman's Religion", sold as a work of Locke!

Synge's answer to #JohnToland: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/04/06/belief-and-the-blind-man/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #EdwardSyngeII

#OliverGoldsmith died #OTD 1774. Novelist, poet, playwright. He lived by his pen, also writing philosophical essays, including on aesthetics (as debated by Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke) https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/04/04/goldsmith-coda/

Wrote first bio of #GeorgeBerkeley including this wild story from college days https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/23/berkeley-strung-out/

Wrote an early elegy for a selection of friends, including #EdmundBurke https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/04/04/here-lies-edmund/

The original "Citizen of the World" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-95900-9_3

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

Isidore (d. 656AD) attempted to compile all classical knowledge in his book, Etymologies.

It arrived in Ireland within 50 years of his death. So prized was this new learning that the Book of Leinster claimed the Etymologies came to Ireland from Spain in exchange for a manuscript of the great Irish epic, the Táin Bó Cúailnge.

Isidore himself was nicknamed “Issidir in chulmin (‘Isidore of the summit’, i.e. of the summit of learning)”.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2017/04/04/isidore-origins-irish/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

#WilliamRobertScott died 3rd April 1940 in Glasgow..

Born in Omagh Co. Tyrone into a milling family, he studied in #TCD.

While there he wrote "A simple history of ancient philosophy" aimed at the general reader, and the only extant full biography of #FrancisHutcheson, coining the term "Scottish Enlightenment" and crediting Hutcheson as its father.

Moving to #GlasgowUni (as Hutcheson had before him) he became an expert in #AdamSmith & economics.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/08/31/william-robert-scott/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

William Robert Scott died 3rd April 1940 in Glasgow..

Born in Omagh Co. Tyrone into a milling family, he studied in #TCD.

While there he wrote "A simple history of ancient philosophy" aimed at the general reader, and the only extant full biography of #FrancisHutcheson, coining the term "Scottish Enlightenment" and crediting Hutcheson as its father.

Moving to #GlasgowUni (as Hutcheson had before him) he became an expert in #AdamSmith & economics.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/08/31/william-robert-scott/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) died #OTD 1886. As Archbishop of Dublin he oversaw the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland.

His best known philosophical work is "The Study of Words", in which he argues the study of words is not tedious exposition but the unearthing of fossil poetry. "Many a single word also is itself a concentrated poem, having stores of poetical thought and imagery laid up in it" (p. 21).

https://books.google.ie/books/about/On_the_Study_of_Words.html?id=FAbpmNUTjGEC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #ChenevixTrench

#WilliamThompson (1775-1833), political and utilitarian philosopher, died in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork #OTD in 1833. His "Inquiry into the distribution of wealth" (1824) is his best-known work, criticising the focus on generating wealth and not on its distribution.

He wrote the feminist tract "Appeal of one half the human race" (1825) with Anna Doyle Wheeler.

#DIB: https://www.dib.ie/biography/thompson-william-a8528

William Thompson, a Pioneer of European #Socialism https://booksandideas.net/William-Thompson-a-Pioneer-of-European-Socialism.html

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1829-1913), Kantian scholar and critic of Berkeley's theory of vision. Born #otd in 1829.

#DIB bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/abbott-thomas-kingsmill-a0005

Berkeley's theory of vision and Abbott's critique: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/18/small-far-away/

#KingsmillAbbott #GeorgeBerkeley #IrishPhilosophyOTD

William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian & philosopher, was born in Blackrock, Co. Dublin #otd in 1838.

#DIB bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/lecky-william-edward-hartpole-a4749

Among Lecky's works are the History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe (1865), and History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemange (1869).

Fun fact: the book on morals influenced #MarkTwain. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40400783

Here's Twain's annotated copy https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p261501co1l12/id/1571

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #WEHLecky