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The connections between science and civic culture in the Victorian period have been extensively, and intensively, investigated over the past several decades. Limited attention, however, has been paid to Irish urban contexts. Roman Catholic attitudes towards science in the nineteenth century have also been neglected beyond a rather restricted set of thinkers and topics. This paper is offered as a contribution to addressing these lacunae, and examines in detail the complexities involved in Catholic engagement with science in Victorian Belfast. The political and civic geographies of Catholic involvement in scientific discussions in a divided town are uncovered through an examination of five episodes in the unfolding history of Belfast's intellectual culture. The paper stresses the importance of attending to the particularities of local politics and scientific debate for understanding the complex realities of Catholic appropriations of science in a period and urban context profoundly shaped by competing political and religious factions. It also reflects more generally on how the Belfast story supplements and challenges scholarship on the historical relations between Catholicism and science.

1. Introduction - Daniel Sanjiv Roberts and Jonathan Jeffrey Wright -- I Inhabiting Empire -- 2. "Residing in this Distant Portion of the Great Empire": The Irish in Imperial Halifax, Nova Scotia – Peter Ludlow and Terrence Murphy -- 3. From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa – Eve Patten -- 4. Walking to China: Infatuation and the Irish in New South Wales – Killian Quigley -- 5. Competing Narratives: 'White Slavery', Servitude and the Irish in Late Eighteenth-Century America – Martyn Powell -- II Writing/ Imagining Empire -- 6. "Humble Obedience to the Will of Heaven": Charles Johnston's Providential and Migratory Sensibility – Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- 7. Prudence and Prejudice in Maria Edgeworth's "Murad the Unlucky" (1804) – Sonja Lawrenson -- 8. "Purely a Local Study"?: Narratives of Empire in George Benn's History of the Town of Belfast – Jonathan Jeffrey Wright -- III Resistance/Collusion -- 9. The 1857 Indian Uprising in Irish Ballads: Voices of the Subaltern – Sarah Raphaela Adjobimey -- 10. Afghanistan, the Indian "Mutiny," and the Bicultural Stereotype of John Nicholson– Pramod K. Nayar -- 11. Violent Resistance: The Irish Revolution and India – Kate O'Malley -- IV Networking -- 12. Stateless and Destitute: The O'Rourke Family of Saint-Domingue, Nantes and Wexford, 1788-1805 – Orla Power -- 13. An Irish Surgeon in Barbados and Demerara: Vexation, Misery and Opportunity – Jennifer McLaren -- 14. "Colouring the map red": Lady Hariot Dufferin and the Imperial Networks of the Dufferin Fund – Sarah Hunter.-

Urban spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland offers new insights on the Irish urban experience by exploring the ways in which urban spaces, from individual buildings to streets and districts, were constructed and experienced during the nineteenth century