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Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
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nd,,by the time of his death, Irish archaeology had become a by-word out-side of our island. I must return to the work of his school a littlelater. The Royal Irish Academy The fountains of the great deep were broken up and thecountry flooded with absurdity at the very time that the institutiontook place of the first really helpful organized force in scientific 1 I must thank the kindness of Lady Ardilaun and Dr H. F. Berry for per-permission to use the photograph of General Vallanceys portrait. 2 Its minute book in the R. I. Acad., 24, E.7. 3 Few men have suffered so much gross flattery and cruel abuse as did thislearned, honorable, but injudicious man. For example, Major Vallancey, agentleman whose acquaintance alone is worth a journey to Ireland (PHI. Surveyof the 8. of Ireland, 1787), and Vallanceys literary charlatanism (Ledwich);several parodies on him have been published. One is quoted in our Journal,vol. xxiv, p. 198, from AnlJwlogia Hibernica, 1794. Plate IV ) (To face page 13
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CHARLES VALLANCEY PRESIDENTS ADDRESS 13 archaeology—the Royal Irish Academy. It arose from an obscureassociation, founded 1782, which throve so marvellously and acquiredso many leading persons among its members that it was soonincorporated under Royal Charter, by George III, on 28 January1786. Its work on archaeology was at first largely forestalledby the Collectanea, but was sufficiently varied. As Polite Litera-ture was not then combined with Antiquities in its sections, weneed not stop to contemplate the Irregular Ode to the Moon andother literary marvels printed in its early Transactions, but willturn to our own subjects. Down to 1800 it published papers on theMount Callan Ogham stone, the mote-castle of Ardnurcher, thechurch and round belfry of Killossy, a tumulus and cist in CountyKildare, a monument at Lusk, County Dublin, Ptolemys map, goldornaments, bronze trumpets, sepulchral urns, and coins. Thesubjects differ little from those studied by it at present, but themethods wer

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