I am a PhD student in Roinn na Gaeilge in Mary Immaculate College. My topic of research is the life and work of Éadbhard de Nógla.
Favourite archive:
The British Library.
Favourite gallery/museum/heritage centre:
Kylemore Abbey (not too far for conference attendees).
Most exciting place/time period in the 18th century:
Meeting the aboriginal peoples of New Zealand and Australia on Cook’s expedition 1768-1771.
Best online resource for 18th century:
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Best book/history of 18th-century interest:
Breandán Ó Buachalla’s Aisling Ghéar: na Stíobhartaigh agus an tAos Léinn (1996).
What eighteenth-century figure would you most like to have a drink with?
Giacomo Casanova.
What will you be talking about at the ECIS Annual Conference?
My current research focuses on editing the literary works of the eighteenth-century Irish language Cork poet, Éadbhard de Nógla (c.1710-1782) and providing a study of them from literary and historical perspectives. The conference paper discusses de Nógla’s only political poem to be composed in the famed aisling genre: ‘Maidin aoibhinn ar bhuíochaint gréine’, a typical aisling style song which uses similar language found in Aogán Ó Rathaille’s famous aisling ‘Mac an Cheannaí’.
