Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe

Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe (1868 – 29 June 1933, St. Albans, UK) was an Irish physicist, astrophysicist and chemist.

He served as Assistant to George Francis Fitzgerald in Trinity College Dublin during the closing years of the 19th century.

[3]: 52 In 1898, the Highlands, Wales, Brittany, and the Isle of Man were represented at the Feis Ceoil held in Belfast, and Fournier d'Albe took the occasion to form a provisional committee to organize a Pan-Celtic Congress in Dublin.

Together with Robert Boyd White, he is credited with making the first ever translation in 1908 of an Irish text into Esperanto—a passage from the Book of Lismore entitled Eachtra Laoghaire Mic Criomthain go maigh meall.

[4][5] Fournier advocated Esperanto as a means to free Celts from the "linguistic incubus of their powerful neighbours or overlords".

Fournier d'Albe's Fin de siècle: Science, Nationalism and Monistic Philosophy in Britain and Ireland" (PDF).