Discovery of Boole papers hailed as fascinating find

ACADEMICS have hailed the discovery of a remarkable collection of forgotten papers by the ‘father of modern computer science’.

George Boole’s previously unseen documents were discovered by staff at University College Cork following the opening of an extension to its Boole Library.

The scrapbook-type collection, which includes examination papers he set for students at the then Queen’s University in Cork, complete with his own notations on future exams, had simply been overlooked.