{"id":5251,"date":"2013-12-03T08:11:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T08:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2014-11-28T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T11:57:59","slug":"book-launch-on-11-december-2013-a-mystic-dream-of-4-by-dr-iggy-mcgovern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/book-launch-on-11-december-2013-a-mystic-dream-of-4-by-dr-iggy-mcgovern\/","title":{"rendered":"Book launch on 11 December 2013: ‘A Mystic Dream of 4\u2019 by Dr Iggy McGovern"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>The Library is pleased to host the Armagh book launch of \u2018A Mystic Dream of 4\u2019 by Dr Iggy McGovern. Jointly organised with the Armagh Observatory, the launch will be held in the Library on Wednesday 11 December 2013 at 7.30pm.<\/p>\n

Iggy McGovern is a former academic and a poet. He is a Fellow Emeritus in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin and\u00a0has published two collections of poetry with Dedalus The King of Suburbia\u2019 in 2005 and \u2018Safe House\u2019 in 2010. He edited the anthology \u20182012: Twenty Irish Poets Respond to Science in Twelve Lines\u2019, published by Dedalus Press in association with Quaternia Press, and co-edited with Jean-Patrick Connerade, \u2018Science Meets Poetry 3\u2019, published by Euroscience.<\/p>\n

His most recent book,\u00a0\u2018A Mystic Dream of 4\u2019, is a sonnet sequence, based on the life of the nineteenth century Irish mathematician and poet, William Rowan Hamilton (1805\u20131865), and published by Quaternia Press<\/p>\n

Hamilton was the foremost mathematician of the mid-nineteenth century. Appointed to the Andrews Chair of Astronomy of Dublin University in the final year of his undergraduate degree, his achievements included the prediction of Conical Refraction and the discovery of Quaternions. Today, his name is perpetuated in the \u2018Hamiltonian\u2019 of the Schr\u00f6dinger Equation.<\/p>\n

He was also a poet whose life spanned the aftermath of the United Irishmen revolt of 1798, the O\u2019Connell campaigns of Reform and Repeal, the Oxford Movement and the Great Famine. The sequence consists of sixty-four sonnets, mainly in the voices of relatives, colleagues and friends of Hamilton, who tell the story of the life and reflect the mores of the times.<\/p>\n

Iggy will talk about the origins of the project and then focus on some Armagh connections, Hamilton’s friendship with the poet William Wordsworth and his lifelong obsession with his first romantic attachment, Catherine Disney. He will then introduce six people to read a sonnet each, finishing with one which he will read.<\/p>\n

Copies of \u2018A Mystic Dream of 4\u2019 will be on sale on the night at the special price of \u00a38 for the paperback copy and \u00a316 for the hardback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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