John Kells Ingram such as the Book of Kells. Ingram died in 1907 in his house, 38 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, where he had lived since 1884, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. Ingram married Margaret Johnston Clark on 23 July 1862 at Maghera Church, County Londonderry. They had five children: Ingram's influence on economics was described by economist Richard Theodore Ely as: John Kells Ingram John Kells Ingram (7 July 1823 – 1 May 1907) was an economist and poet who started his career as a mathematician. He has been co-credited, along with John William Stubbs, with introducing the geometric concept
The Great Book of Ireland painstakingly and rigorously prepared by hand -and then artists had to face the nightmare of working, one chance only, on an unfamiliar surface, a living material which stretched and shrank as it was wet or dry, a subtly uneven surface containing minute amounts of natural oils. The poets, scratching away with dip-pens on a surface pitted with microscopic bumps and hollows, found themselves writing with unfamiliar or half-forgotten implements on a material light years away from bleached, flat paper. The whole skin was used in each case, resulting in a book half as big as The Book of Kells again.