The 2026 Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag will take place in Queen’s University Belfast on 11-12 June 2026.
The Call For Papers is currently open, and can be downloaded below. Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers (in English or Irish) on any aspect of eighteenth-century Ireland, including its history, literature, language, and culture. The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society is a multidisciplinary organisation and we welcome papers from all relevant disciplines (English, History, Art History, Irish, Music, and European Languages), including interdisciplinary and comparative research studies.
You will also find links to previous ECIS conferences below.
Previous ECIS Conferences
The ECIS Annual Conference is a highlight of the Society’s work. The annual conference has taken place in venues across Ireland since 1986.
- 2025: Trinity College Dublin
- 2024: University of Galway
- 2023: Dublin City University
- 2022: University College Cork
- 2021: University of Limerick (online)
- 2020: No conference (COVID-19)
- 2019: Queen’s University Belfast
- 2018: Waterford (in conjunction with Waterford Cathedral and Waterford Treasures)
- 2017: Royal Irish Academy
- 2016: NUI, Galway
- 2015: University College Cork
- 2014: Armagh (in conjunction with the Robinson Library of Armagh)
- 2013: Maynooth University
- 2012: Trinity College Dublin
- 2011: Trim, Co. Meath (in collaboration with the Trim Swift Satire Festival)
- 2010: University of Limerick
- 2009: University College Dublin
- 2008: University College Cork
- 2007: Queen’s University Belfast
- 2006: University of Ulster
- 2005: University of Limerick
- 2004: Queen’s University Belfast (in collaboration with the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society)
- 2003: Trinity College Dublin & Dublin City Public Libraries
- 2002: NUI, Maynooth (May). Coláiste gan Smál, Ollscoil Luimnigh (January)
- 2001: Queen’s University Belfast (in collaboration with the Linen Hall Library)
- 2000: St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra
- 1999: University College Dublin (in collaboration with the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
- 1998: Ballymahon, Co. Longford (in collaboration with the Goldsmith Summer School)
- 1997: University of Ulster
- 1996: University of Limerick
- 1995: Trinity College Dublin (in collaboration with the TCD Conference to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Jonathan Swift
- 1994: University College Galway
- 1993: University College Dublin
- 1992: Dublin (in collaboration with British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and Société francaise d’étude du XVIII siècle)
- 1991: St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra
- 1990: Queen’s University Belfast
- 1989: University College Dublin
- 1988: St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
- 1987: University College Dublin
- 1986: Trinity College Dublin