It's Part of What We Are - Volumes 1 and 2 - Volume 1: Richard Boyle (1566-1643) to John Tyndall (1820-1893); Volume 2: Samuel Haughton (18210-1897) to John Stewart Bell (1928-1990): Some Irish Contributors to the Development of the Chemical and Physical Sciences

Well known historian of Irish Science, who has written or edited over 20 books on current and historical Irish science. Major publications (in addition to this double volume biographical dictionary "It's Part of What We Are"), include his "Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments" (1995, 501 pages), and his edited biography of "William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse - Astronomy and the castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2014, 368 pages).