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A new National Library of Ireland exhibition celebrating the life and work of Seamus Heaney gives an overview of the poet laureate's life and work. ℘℘℘ When Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, the Swedish Academy noted the “lyrical beauty and ethical depth” of his work. His poems, though often suffused with allusions to Dante, Homer, and the … [Read more...] about Listen Now Again

November 26, 1885

Thomas Andrews, Northern Irish chemist and physicist, died on this day in 1885 in Belfast. Andrews spent extensive time in school. He first attended the Belfast Academy and then the Royal Belfast Academical Institute, where he studied mathematics. In 1828, he went on to University of Glasgow to study chemistry, then Trinity College Dublin for classics with a distinction in science, and finally University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a doctorate of medicine. He did his most important work as a professor of Chemistry at Queen’s University of Belfast, where he demonstrated the phase transitions between gases and liquids, and carried out a complete inquiry into the gas laws.

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