The 2025 Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag took place in Trinity College, Dublin on 4-5 June 2025.
The conference featured keynote addresses from Professor Mark Caball (UCD), Professor James Kelly (Dublin City University), and Professor Christina Morin (University of Limerick).
Click on the link to get the 2025 conference programme. You will 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