Type: Article
OFlaherty, Eamonn. ‘Burke and the Catholic Question’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 7-27.
This article examines Edmund Burkes writings on the Catholic question, which span nearly four decades and contain important evidence of the development of Burkes ideas about the nature of law and obligation and the Continue reading Vol. 12: OFlaherty, Eamonn.
Type: Article
Lowe, N. F. ‘James Barry, Mary Wollstonecraft and 1798’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 60-76.
One of James Barrys paintings, Portraits in the Character of Ulysses and a Companion, depicts Edmund Burke as Ulysses, motioning to his companion to be silent. From Barrys point of view, Continue reading Vol. 12: Lowe, N. F.
Type: Article
Davies, Simon. ‘Irish Reactions to a French bestseller’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 87-88.
This article offers a brief discussion of Irish reactions to the French bestseller, Les liaisons dangereuses (1782). The 1784 English translation was pirated and printed in Dublin, and became popular in at Continue reading Vol. 12: Davies, Simon.
Type: Review Article
Barnard, T. C. ‘The Gentrification of Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 137-55.
This article assesses the contribution to the study of eighteenth-century Ireland of Dr Kevin Whelan, whom the author characterises as one of the liveliest writers on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland to have Continue reading Vol. 12: Barnard, T. C.
Type: Article
Carey, Daniel. ‘Swift Among The Freethinkers’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 89-99.
Jonathan Swifts ongoing literary battles with freethinkers impelled him to use a variety of rhetorical strategies to combat the threat which freethinkers posed to Anglican orthodoxy and to Swifts political position as a Tory. Continue reading Vol. 12: Carey, Daniel.
Type: Article
Reece, Bob. ‘Irish Anticipations of Botany Bay’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 116-136..
In 1786, with the need for an alternative to trans-Atlantic transport of convicts from Britain to America, the British government announced plans for the establishment of a convict settlement in Botany Bay, New South Continue reading Vol. 12: Reece, Bob.
Type: Article
Mac Craith, Mícheál. ‘Fingal: eipic thosaigh James Macpherson’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 77-86.
In this article (which is in Irish), Mac Craith considers the vexed question of vernacular Gaelic influence on the pseudo-epic poetry of James MacPherson, especially on Fingal (1761). The author considers Continue reading Vol. 12: Mac Craith, Mícheál.
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
Caffentzis, C. George. ‘Why Did Berkeleys Bank Fail? Money and Libertinism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 100-115..
Bishop George Berkeleys 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.
