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Natural history and Irish history

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Michael Quigley*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Trinity College, Dublin

Abstract

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Type
Review article
Copyright
Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1998

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6 For example, Davies, Gordon L. Herries, ‘The age and origin of the Leinster mountain chain: a study of the evolution of south-eastern Ireland from the Upper Palaeozoic to the later Tertiary’ in R.I.A. Proc., lxi (1960), sect. B, pp 79107 Google Scholar; idem, ‘The enigma of the Irish Tertiary’ in Nicholas Stephens and R. E. Glassock (eds), Irish geographical studies in honour of E. Estyn Evans (Belfast, 1969), pp 1–16.

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8 Ibid., p. ix.

9 Ibid.