Category: Volume 07

Type: Article

Tucker, Bernard. ‘‘Our Chief Poetess’: Mary Barber and Swift’s Circle.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 43-56.

Until recently, according to Bernard Tucker, ‘scant attention’ has been paid to Irish women poets of the first half of the eighteenth-century. Despite the success of her collection titled Poems Continue reading Vol. 7: Tucker, Bernard.

Type: Notes

Woods, C. J. ‘An unnoticed pamphlet by Charles O’Conor at Belanagare: A vindication of the political principles of Roman Catholics (1761).’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), pp147-148..

This is a corrected version of the note published, inadvertently, in an uncorrected form in Eighteenth Century Ireland volume 6 (1991), Continue reading Vol. 7: Woods, C. J.

Type: Notes

Trainor, Charles. ‘Henry Fielding and Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 136-140..

This note discusses Fielding’s contempt for foreigners and draws attention to the negative Irish stereotypes in works such as Tom Jones. However, as a magistrate, Fielding showed sympathy for and fair treatment to Continue reading Vol. 7: Trainor, Charles.

Type: Article

O’Donnell, Ruan and Bob Reece. ‘‘A Clean Beast’: Crofton Croker’s Fairy Tale of General Holt’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 7-42.

This article discusses Thomas Crofton Croker’s Memoirs of Joseph Holt…(1838), edited by Croker from Joseph Holt’s own autobiographical manuscript ‘The Live [sic] and Adventures of Joseph Continue reading Vol. 7: O’Donnell, Ruan and Bob Reece.

Type: Review Article

Ó Buachalla, Breandán. ‘Poetry and Politics in Early Modern Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 149-175..

This article takes as its starting point The Gaelic Mind and the Collapse of the Gaelic World by Michelle O Riordan (Cork University Press, 1990), in which the author selects Continue reading Vol. 7: Ó Buachalla, Breandán.

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: 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, 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: 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

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.