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This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s. He was a remarkable engineer, who built enormous telescopes in the cloudy middle of Ireland. The book gives details, in an attractive non-technical style which requires no previous scientific knowledge, of his engineering initiatives and the astronomical results, but also reveals much more about the man and his contributions - locally in the.

Astronomers. --- Physical scientists --- Rosse, William Parsons, --- Parsons, William, --- Rosse, --- Anglo-Irish community. --- Birr Castle. --- Countess of Rosse. --- Irish climate. --- Spiral Galaxy. --- William Parsons. --- architectural initiative. --- astronomy. --- engineering. --- resident landlord. --- scientific research. --- spiral nebulae. --- telescopes. --- the Leviathan.