Science, Politics and the Irish Literary Revival
Reassessing ‘Dr Sigerson’ as Polymath and Public Intellectual
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20077500 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Mcgeachie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 113-140 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750-1970 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230304628_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2476968227 |
| ISBN | 9780230304628 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
George Sigerson (1836–1925) is now an obscure and largely forgotten figure.1 He left no memoir, and his personal papers and manuscripts are apparently lost. To date, there has been no biography to give an appropriately detailed account of his long life and career. Neither is there a monograph providing an extended study of his work as a medical man, a man of science and a public intellectual. His name is best known today through the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), either in the form of the intercollegiate Sigerson Cup competition in Gaelic football he endowed in 1911, the Strabane Sigersons club of his hometown, or as the author of the Tyrone anthem ‘The Mountains of Pomeroy’.2 In his day, however, the Strabane-born Sigerson enjoyed a high public profile, both as a savant and as a poet, historian and political journalist
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