Encroaching Irish bogland frontiers: science, policy and aspirations from the 1770s to the 1840s

I begin this chapter with quotes by Arthur Young (1741–1820), an English social and political observer and writer, who spent years in Ireland in the 1770s and published a detailed account of his observations and a survey, extensively cited later in the nineteenth century, based on the knowledge he g...

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Zusammenfassung:	I begin this chapter with quotes by Arthur Young (1741–1820), an English social and political observer and writer, who spent years in Ireland in the 1770s and published a detailed account of his observations and a survey, extensively cited later in the nineteenth century, based on the knowledge he gathered on that journey. When he covered the topography of the island, he marvelled how ‘the bogs, of which foreigners have heard so much, are very extensive in Ireland’. As a man who had devoted his life to the improvement of agriculture and the social conditions of the rural poor,