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 == Deletion of material trying to spin Robert Boyle into a subject of Irish interest == 

 This is the paragraph I've just deleted. I'm being asked to defend the deletion, so I'm going to critique the paragraph. 
 ::As a infant, Boyle was fostered to an Irish family until his formal schooling began.{{cite|title=Physicists of Ireland: Passion and Precision|first1=Mark|last1=McCartney|first2=Andrew|last2=Whitaker|publisher=Insitute of Physics Publishing|year=2003|location=London}} In his later life, Boyle was outspoken in his view that the clergy of the (Protestant) [[Church of Ireland]] should be fluent in the [[Irish language]]. Boyles concern for a Irish-language was not the normal attitude of Irish Protestants to Gaelic during his day, who were generally hostile to the Irish language and culture.{{cite|first=Adrian|last=Hastings|title=The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|year=1997}} In 1680, despite political opposition, he personally funded the production of an [[Irish language|Irish-language]] [[New Testament]] to replace the 1602 version that had gone out of print,{{cite|first=William|last=Killen|title=The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Present Times | publisher=MacMillan |year=1875|location=London |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/theecclesiasticx01killuoft#page/n5/mode/2up}} even having the printer instructed in the Irish language for the purpose of printing it.{{cite|first=Talbot|last=Baines Reed|title=A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography|publisher=E. Stock|year=1887}} Despite his birth in Ireland, Boyle described it as ""a barbarous country where chemical spirits were so misunderstood and chemical instruments so unprocurable that it was hard to have any Hermetic thoughts in it.""quoted in Silver, Brian. ''The Ascent of Science'', p. 114. Oxford University Press US, 2000. ISBN 9780195134278 

 (1) Quote: ""As a infant, Boyle was fostered to an Irish family until his formal schooling began. REF"" The referenced support for that is the book Physicists of Ireland  Google Books Preview Available, which actually says ""Robert was raised, as was the tradition at the time in wealthy families, by a wet nurse (foster mother) and then taught by private tutors at home. He was sent at the age of eight to Eton."" I have changed the statement to make it say what the book is actually saying. It is very clear to me that the statement ""Boyle was fostered by an Irish family"" is motivated by a foolish desire to put an Irish spin on Robert Boyle. 

 (2) Quote: ""In his later life, Boyle was outspoken in his view that the clergy of the (Protestant) Church of Ireland should be fluent in the Irish language. Boyles concern for a Irish-language was not the normal attitude of Irish Protestants to Gaelic during his day, who were generally hostile to the Irish language and culture.REF"" The first of those two sentences is unsourced and unreferenced and I'd bet it's untrue. The second sentence is sourced and true, but it's confounding two different things. Boyle favoured the use of Gaelic in religious activities among native Gaelic speakers, but he did not have any particular favour for Gaelic itself. Rather, he had the Protestant idea that religion should be in vernacular language. The Robert Boyle wikipedia article has been saying for many years that Boyle ""spent large sums... translating the Bible or portions of it into various languages"". I have today added the following: 
 ::Like the great of majority of British Protestants, Boyle supported the policy that the Bible should be available in the vernacular language of the people (in contrast to the Latin-only policy of the Roman Catholic church at the time). The government, following this policy, had financed the publication of the Bible in the Gaelic language 1602, but by Boyle's later years this had gone out of print and had not been replaced. In 1680 Boyle personally financed the printing of the New Testament in Gaelic., pages 189-190. 

 (3) Quote: ''""Despite his birth in Ireland, Boyle described it as ""a barbarous country where chemical spirits were so misunderstood and chemical instruments so unprocurable that it was hard to have any Herme