Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign, it saw Locke's "Treatises of Government", the founding of the Royal Society, the experiments and holy meditations of Robert William Boyle, was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, County Waterford, in which location?