John Kells Ingram - Posthumous Recognition

Posthumous Recognition

• In 1998 the influence of positivism and Auguste Comte is discussed in an economic paper prepared at Trinity College to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of the "Memory of the Dead" which again Ingram authored.

• John Kells Ingram's influence on economics is depicted by Johns Hopkins University and University of Wisconsin economist Richard Theodore Ely as follows:
  • "A more humane and genial spirit has taken the place of the old dryness and hardness which once repelled so many of the best minds from the study of Economics and won for it the name of 'the dismal science'. In particular, the problem of the Proletariat, of the condition and future of the working classes- has taken a powerful hold on the feelings, as well as the intellect, of Society, and is studied in a more earnest and sympathetic spirit than at any former time."

• Donagh MacDonagh, editor of - The Golden Treasury of Irish Verse - (1930) includes this Note (p. 326):
  • "I have been requested to publish the following note on “The Memory of the Dead”: ‘The poem entitled “The Memory of the Dead” was published in the Nation newspaper in April 1843 when I was in my twentieth year Some persons have believed, or affected to believe, that I am asharned of having written it, and would gladly, if I could, disown its authorship. Those who know me do not need to told that this idea is without foundation. I think the Irish race should be grateful to men who, in evil times, however mistaken may have been their policy, gave their lives for their country. But I have no sympathy with those who preach sedition in our own day, when all the circumstances are radically altered. In my opinion no real popular interest can now be furthered by violence.’ John K. Ingram. Dublin, 1900."