To be fair, figures like Boole and Hamilton are very much celebrated within Irish academia. And it's not a new thing. I attended a conference on the legacy of Boole in 1995: https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/ims/bull33/bull33_3-3.pdf
Ludgate is a more marginal case because his invention didn't come to fruition. There is a bit of a sense in which he is being celebrated/hyped in a silly superficial ("collectively narcissistic") way intended to bolster self-esteem for Irish technical people. https://ingeniousireland.ie/2012/10/1909-a-novel-irish-compu...
Ludgate is a more marginal case because his invention didn't come to fruition. There is a bit of a sense in which he is being celebrated/hyped in a silly superficial ("collectively narcissistic") way intended to bolster self-esteem for Irish technical people. https://ingeniousireland.ie/2012/10/1909-a-novel-irish-compu...
Meanwhile significant people like Carew Meredith aren't on the public radar at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carew_Arthur_Meredith