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Type: Article

Murphy, Sean. ‘Burke and Lucas: an authorship problem re-examined’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 143-156.

This article argues against biographers of Edmund Burke in their conviction that Burke was hostile to the Anglo-Irish nationalist, Charles Lucas. According to Sean Murphy, Burke’s political opinion of Lucas is significant: ‘the probability that Burke started his political career by supporting a forerunner of Irish nationalism such as Charles Lucas has important implications for the debate on whether Burke’s political thought is in essence ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative”. Various pseudonymous articles, some supporting Lucas, some opposing him, are examined. According to Burke’s early biographer James Prior, Burke satirized Lucas as ‘Epaminondas’, though Murphy asserts that there is no documentary evidence of this. Murphy asks whether Burke was the pseudonymous author of four pamphlets in support of Lucas signed ‘Free Briton’, and whether he was also the anonymous ‘B’ who composed five essays on patriotism printed in Lucas’s newspaper, the Censor? In answer, he provides evidence that Burke could only have written the latter, and concludes that Burke supported Lucas in a ‘cautious and moderate way’.

Type: Article

Jones, Catherine A. ‘”Our partial Attachments”: Tom Moore and 1798’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 24-43.

This article examines the influence of revolutionary nationalism on the poet Thomas Moore and the writing of his Irish Melodies (1808-34). Jones traces Moore’s beginnings in Ireland prior to his becoming a London literary émigré, from his early years as a student at Trinity College Dublin, which was a ‘hotbed of nationalism’, to his friendship with United Irishmen Edward Hudson and Robert Emmet, whose political enthusiasm and appreciation of Irish music inspired Moore’s Melodies. Jones also discusses the relationship between Moore’s Melodies and two important philosophical works, Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) and David Hume’s Philosophical Essays (1748).

Type: Article

Morley, Vincent. ‘Hugh MacCurtin: an Irish Poet in the French Army’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 49-58.

In 1925, T.F. O’Rahilly published the text of a poem by the eighteenth-century Irish poet, Hugh MacCurtin in which MacCurtin portrays himself as a soldier. This article questions whether Continue reading Vol. 8: Morley, Vincent.

Type: Article

Keogh, Daire. ‘‘The most dangerous villain in society’; Fr John Martin’s mission to the United Irishmen of Wicklow in 1798’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 115-135.

This article discusses the activities of ‘rebel priests’ in the 1790’s and their involvement with the United Irishmen and the 1798 Continue reading Vol. 7: Keogh, Daire.

Type: Notes

Kinane, Vincent. ‘Les liaisons dangereuses: an unrecorded Dublin edition of 1784 and its counterfeit ‘Geneva’ issue.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp 159-160.

A brief discussion of a 1784 Dublin printing of Les liaisons dangereuses (1782) by Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, issued by Luke White, which has Continue reading Vol. 6: Kinane, Vincent.

Type: Article

Hick, Vivien. ‘John Wesley and the Irish Rhinelanders’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 89-103.

This article discusses the connections between John Wesley and the Palatine communities in Ireland, which he visited regularly over a period of twenty-nine years. His Methodism appealed to the Palatines, many of Continue reading Vol. 5: Hick, Vivien.

Type: Article

Cullen, Louis ‘Catholics Under the Penal Laws’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 23-36.

This article considers the impact of the penal laws of eighteenth-century Ireland on Irish catholics. Cullen discusses catholic interest in property and politics, career paths followed by catholics and levels of church organization to suggest that the impact of the penal laws has been exaggerated. He argues that not only was catholic interest strong in this period, but that, in some cases and regions it actually increased. The article looks at various regions and their landholding families, concluding that, aside from the north, where Ulster catholics were denied the right to worship or build churches, catholic interest and achievement was stronger and more complex in eighteenth-century Ireland than has previously been thought.

Type: Article

Hyland, Cal and James Kelly. ‘Richard Twiss’s A Tour of Ireland in 1775 (London, 1776) The Missing Pages and some other notes’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 52-64.

This article gives an account of Richard Twiss’s own annotated copy of the London edition of his A Tour of Ireland in 1775, in which he inserted the four pages (162-165) which he had removed from the edition as published. These pages contain an attack on Gorges Edmond Howard, and a full transcription of the text of the missing pages is provided in this article. Included also are Twiss’s many other manuscript additions and annotations to the text. According to Hyland and Kelly, ‘the discovery of Twiss’s own copy, complete with the ‘missing pages’ and the author’s annotations, is more than just a bibliographical curiosity, it is a matter of some cultural as well as literary consequence’.

Type: Article

Doyle, Thomas. ‘Jacobitism, Catholicism and the Irish Protestant Elite, 1700-1710’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 28-59.

In the period from 1700-1710, formal and informal charges of Jacobitism against members of the Irish protestant élite were relatively common. This affected protestant churchmen, judges, students, Tories, and gentry Continue reading Vol. 12: Doyle, Thomas.

Type: Article

Morley, Vincent. ‘Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín: File Gaeilge in Arm na Fraince’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), pp 39-48..

An article in Irish which is translated in the article which follows.

Type: Article

Kennedy, Denis. ‘The Irish Opposition, Parliamentary Reform and Public Opinion, 1793-1794.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 95-114.

This article focuses on the period leading up to the Irish Whig party’s reform bill of 1793. The Irish Whig party aimed not only to bring forward a programme Continue reading Vol. 7: Kennedy, Denis.

Type: Article

Kelly, James. ‘Jonathan Swift and the Irish Economy in the 1720’s’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp 7-36..

This article examines Jonathan Swift’s pamphleteering career of the 1720’s which ultimately, “broadened the focus of Irish economic thinking…and stimulated greater interest in and enthusiasm for schemes that encouraged indigenous Continue reading Vol. 6: Kelly, James.

Type: Article

Greene, John and Elizabeth McCrum. ‘‘Small clothes’: The evolution of men’s nether garments as evidenced in The Belfast Newsletter Index 1737-1800’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 153-171.

This article gives a general description of The Belfast Newsletter Index to demonstrate the ‘quantity and quality’ of information in Continue reading Vol. 5: Greene, John and Elizabeth McCrum.

Type: Article

Harrison, Frank Llewelyn ‘Music, Poetry and Polity in the age of Swift’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 37-63.

This survey of popular music and poetry in eighteenth-century Ireland discusses a variety of works of Irish, English, Scottish and Italian origin. Harrison considers differences and influences, musical dialect, musicians and composers. He also explores the individual experiences and impressions of music formulated by Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley, Robert Clayton and Mrs Delany (Mary Granville). The article suggests that music and poetry in the age of Swift ‘affirmed and promoted the self-identification of the several ‘nations, interests, and religions’ into which the country was divided’. Harrison notes the differences in language and style between the operas being staged in London and Dublin at the time. In London, the agenda was strictly Italian operas, while in Dublin the stage was dominated by the English ballad opera. Included are samples of musical scores discussed in the text.

Type: Article

Harvey, Karen J. ‘Religion and Money: Irish Regular Colleges in the Roman Republic of 1798-99’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 73-82..

This article concerns the fortunes of the Franciscan College of San Isidoro and the Dominican College of San Clemente in Rome – both of which provided Continue reading Vol. 8: Harvey, Karen J.

Type: Article

Kelly, Patrick. ‘‘Industry and Virtue versus Luxury and Corruption’: Berkeley, Walpole, and the South Sea Bubble Crisis.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 57-74.

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the word ‘bubble’ was used as a “term of opprobrium for delusive commercial or financial schemes”, Continue reading Vol. 7: Kelly, Patrick.

Type: Article

Geoghegan, Vincent. ‘A Jacobite History: The Abbé MacGeoghegan’s History of Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp37-55.

This article examines the political theories behind Abbé James MacGeoghegan’s History of Ireland and looks at possible sources to shed light on his political thinking. MacGeoghegan’s beliefs in divine right, indefeasible Continue reading Vol. 6: Geoghegan, Vincent.

Type: Article

Gargett, Graham. ‘Voltaire and Irish History’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 117-141.

Despite his reputation as “the Enlightenment’s greatest and most universal figure” and as one of the most accomplished historians of the eighteenth century, Voltaire has remained a figure of controversy. While Gargett focuses on Continue reading Vol. 5: Gargett, Graham.

Type: Notes

Williams, N. J. A. ‘A Note on John K’Eogh’s Herbal’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 198-202.

This article examines the problem of identifying plants of Ireland as listed in John K’eogh’s Botanologia Universalis Hibernica (1735), a book written not in traditional Irish, but in Manx, or in Continue reading Vol. 2: Williams, N. J. A.

Type: Article

Watson, Seosamh. ‘Aortha: Ainmhithe agus Eile. (The Irish satirist’s power over animals and others)’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 89-95.

This article is in Irish. Watson considers the honoured position of poets in early Irish society : a position partially based on an almost universal fear of their power to satirize. The satire followed certain conventions, and this paper deals with some of these conventions, especially the characterisation of the victims as animals. The survival of Irish poetic satire into the post-classical period is also studied using examples of satires composed in south-east Ulster in the middle of the eighteenth century.

Type: Article

Caffentzis, C. George. ‘Why Did Berkeley’s Bank Fail? Money and Libertinism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 100-115..

Bishop George Berkeley’s proposal for a National Bank of Ireland received “some notoriety in the history of economic thought” after it was published in The Querist in Continue reading Vol. 12: Caffentzis, C. George.

Type: Article

Falvey, Jeremiah. ‘The Church of Ireland episcopate in the eighteenth century: an overview.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 103-114..

This article considers the actions of the 123 men who ruled the Church of Ireland as bishops in the eighteenth century. It considers the limitations of episcopal Continue reading Vol. 8: Falvey, Jeremiah.

Type: Notes

Durey, Michael. ‘John Hughes, reluctant agent provocateur and millenarian: a note and new documents’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), 141-146..

Discusses two previously unknown letters written by John Hughes—a United Irish bookseller from Belfast—to Thomas Jefferson in 1802. According to Durey, these letters shed light on details Continue reading Vol. 7: Durey, Michael.

Type: Article

Fagan, Patrick. ‘The Population of Dublin in the eighteenth century with particular reference to the proportions of protestants and catholics.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp 121-56..

This article examines transformation in the population of Dublin in the eighteenth-century from a mainly protestant city at the beginning of Continue reading Vol. 6: Fagan, Patrick.

Type: Article

Davies, Simon. ‘The Northern Star and the propagation of enlightened ideas.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 143-152.

The first issue of The Northern Star in Belfast on 4 January 1792 effectively launched, “the organ of the founding fathers of the Society of United Irishmen”. This article Continue reading Vol. 5: Davies, Simon.

Type: Notes

Ward, Robert E. ‘A Letter from Ireland: A Little-Known Attack on David Hume’s History of England’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 196-197.

This article discusses a letter written in 1762 by Charles O’Conor of Belanagare, historian and catholic activist, complaining about David Hume’s History of England. Continue reading Vol. 2: Ward, Robert E.

Type: Article

Elias, A.C. Jr. ‘Lord Orrery’s copy of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Swift (1751)’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 111-125.

This article gives an account of the copy of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift purchased by the University of Pennsylvania Library in 1981. The copy came from Orrery’s library and includes not only the text but also eleven pages of manuscript letters. These letters are printed as an appendix to the article. The text of the Memoirs is a pirated version of Orrery’s own Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift (1751), which adds seven anecdotes about Jonathan Swift. The article assesses the importance of these anecdotes and of the manuscript correspondence between Orrery and Faulkner, which concerns the printing of the pirated Memoirs.

Type: Article

Boydell, Barra. ‘The United Irishmen, music, harps, and national identity’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 44-51.

This article discusses the role of Irish music in the political events of the late eighteenth-century, and the harp as a symbol of nationalism and as a metaphor for Ireland. Boydell looks at the influence of harp societies and festivals in late-eighteenth century Dublin and Belfast and at the Volunteer and United Irish movements use of songs to propagate their ideas. She also considers Thomas Moore’s use of the harp as a nationalist literary metaphor and mentions the early nineteenth-century replacement of the ‘formalised winged-maiden’ harp of ascendancy Ireland with its imperial crown — by more realistic images of the early Irish harp.

Type: Article

Cullen, L. M. ‘The Contemporary and later politics of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 7-38..

This article discusses an important eighteenth-century poem in Irish, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire, a lament for young Art O’Leary, shot dead because he would not sell his horse Continue reading Vol. 8: Cullen, L. M.

Type: Article

Buttimer, Cornelius G. ‘Tuairisc Amhailt Uí Iartáin: An eighteenth-century poem on a fair.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 75-94.

This article analyses the Gaelic poem, Tuairisc Amhailt Uí Iartáin ar Aonach Chlár Chluana Mhic Mhuiris sonn, a burlesque, ‘microcosmic’ account of an eighteenth-century fair. Buttimer discusses Continue reading Vol. 7: Buttimer, Cornelius G.