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show, with steam and education transforming areas that "conquest and colonisation failed to effect in centuries". In serial form, the journal published MacAdam's compilation of 600 proverbs in Irish. But many other projects to gather up, and to breath new life, into the "fragments" of the Gaelic past
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While the members were interested in the contemporary Irish vernacular, rather than in the classical language of manuscripts, they abjured the evangelism that persuaded other
Protestant laymen and clerics to study the spoken language. MacAdam, who became the society's joint secretary, protested that
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Although his friends did eventually create an annuity that allowed him to live in reasonable comfort, MacAdam's last years had been dogged by ill health and poverty. In 1894, the
Townend Street foundry had been forced to close. In 1889, he sold an important collection of Irish manuscripts to the
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Archaeology, the science, par excellence, of "old things" like all other divisions of human knowledge, when rightly viewed, does not stand by itself but is continually coming into contact with other sciences........ It is not history; it is not philology; not ethnology; but these and many other
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After the Ulster Gaelic
Society ceased to operate in 1843, MacAdam employed the poet Aodh Mac Domhnaill (Hugh McDonnell, who worked with MacAdam in the Soho foundry) as a full-time scribe and collector of songs, folklore, and Irish-language manuscripts. MacAdam himself collected extensively on
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MacAdam committed to the task of collecting Irish folklore and manuscripts, promoting the study of Irish, and publishing books in the language. Among the books produced by the society were Tomás Ó Fiannachta's translations into Irish of
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MacAdam was born to Jane
Shipboy (1774–1827) and her husband James MacAdam (1755–1821), who lived next to their hardware shop in High Street, Belfast. Before being apprenticed to his father, he was educated at the new
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efforts to "beguile the poor
Catholics from their faith" had done "more harm to the language than foreign persecution for 300 years". At the same time, he faulted the Catholic clergy. They had neglected to teach the
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business trips throughout Ulster and north
Leinster. He also found ready material among Irish-speaking immigrants to Belfast. He was to discover, for example, that Charlement Street (now buried under the
110:, in 1846 he established the Soho Foundry in Townsend Street At its height, before the death in 1861 of his brother (a naturalist and geologist who in the interim had become the first librarian of
325:, a key figure in a new "northern revival" of the Irish language. The following year, shortly after MacAdam's death, this was given further impetus by the establishment of the first branch of the
238:, an annual publication that MacAdam was to edit until the end of its first series in 1862. In his prospectus for the journal, MacAdam proposed broad multi-disciplinary vision of the subject.
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visited
Belfast in 1849, MacAdam composed a series of publicly displayed "mottos" in Irish. These extended to "Ireland's Queen" a "thousand welcomes" from her "loving and loyal" subjects.
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by observing that "society in Ulster seems breaking up" with the "scattered the ruins of the ancient structure fast hurrying to decay". He likened the rapidity of change to one of the
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MacAdam was the prime mover in introducing a question on the knowledge of Irish in the 1851 Census. In 1852, he and his brother organised a major exhibition of for a conference of the
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Library until 1996). Neither was his collection of 400 songs in Irish, or his proposed Irish language newspaper. MacAdam's work and contributions were nonetheless acknowledged by the
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MacAdam, who in time was said to be fluent in a dozen languages, perfected his command of Irish in course of his extensive travels across
Ireland on behalf of the family business.
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An
English–Irish dictionary, compiled with Mac Domhnaill, and which ran to more than 1,000 manuscript pages, was never published (and lay undisturbed in the
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subjects are interwoven with it so closely, that the boundaries can hardly be defined.... Every science may be said to have its archaeological province.....
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he was a co-founder. It was to "enable strangers from other countries to judge for themselves the nature and extent of our ancient civilisation".
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Robert MacAdam did not marry. He lived with his brother at 18 College Square East, Belfast, where he died on 3 January 1895. He was buried in
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686:"A History of Protestant Irish Speakers, pp. 33-34"
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