ECIS Conference Postgraduate Bursaries

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society is pleased to announce two bursaries for postgraduate students presenting papers at this year’s conference.

The bursaries will cover registration, special student membership of the Society (including copies of Eighteenth-Century Ireland for 2012 and 2013), and the attendance at the conference dinner.

Applicants should send an abstract of their Continue reading ECIS Conference Postgraduate Bursaries

A compact biography of Charles Lucas (1713-1771)

Print from portrait of Charles Lucas by Sir Joshua Reynolds (courtesy of Teylers Museum)
Print from portrait of Charles Lucas by Sir Joshua Reynolds (courtesy of Teylers Museum)

I have just uploaded to Academia.edu an amended version of my compact biography of Charles Lucas, the eighteenth-century Irish patriot, author and medical doctor. In contrast to figures such as Swift and Grattan, Lucas Continue reading A compact biography of Charles Lucas (1713-1771)

Call for Contributions: Cuadernos Jovellanistas. De la Ilustración a la Modernidad

The Foro Jovellanos Foundation www.jovellanos.org, would like to warmly encourage you to contribute with an article to its academic Journal Cuadernos Jovellanistas. De la Ilustración a la Modernidad (previously Cuadernos de Investigación).

The scope of the peer-reviewed Journal is wide and interdisciplinary, with special focus on the age of Jovellanos (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Continue reading Call for Contributions: Cuadernos Jovellanistas. De la Ilustración a la Modernidad

Prof. Andrew Carpenter lecture on #18thC Censorship

Programme for Censored lecture seriesProfessor Andrew Carpenter will be delivering a public lecture entitled ‘Censorship and deception in the printing of Swift’s works 1690-1758’ at the National Print Museum this Thursday, 15 January 2014, at 6.30pm. This event is free of charge and all are welcome to attend.

The lecture is part of the National Print Continue reading Prof. Andrew Carpenter lecture on #18thC Censorship

Prof. James Kelly lecture on #18thC Censorship: Thursday, 4 Dec. 2014

Professor James Kelly (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra) will be delivering a public lecture entitled ‘The Control of Print in Eighteenth Century Ireland’ at the National Print Museum this Thursday, 4 December 2014, at 6.30pm. This event is free of charge and all are welcome to attend.

The lecture will conclude the first Continue reading Prof. James Kelly lecture on #18thC Censorship: Thursday, 4 Dec. 2014

Two fellowships at the Centre Culturel Irlandais

The Centre Culturel Irlandais / Irish College Paris is offering two Fellowship bursaries to encourage research on its Old Library and Historical archives.

The purpose of the Fellowships is to establish the intellectual and academic value of the holdings.

The Old library contains 8000 volumes (from the 15th to the 19th century). Once Continue reading Two fellowships at the Centre Culturel Irlandais

Armagh Public Library, First ‘Rokeby’ Lecture

Armagh Public Library will host the first ‘Rokeby Lecture’ when Dr Sarah McCleave, Director of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, will speak on the Georgian musical heritage of Armagh.

The event, which has free admission, will be held in the Library’s Long Room on Friday 28 November Continue reading Armagh Public Library, First ‘Rokeby’ Lecture

UL-MIC #18thC Seminars, November 2014

The University of Limerick-Mary Immaculate College Eighteenth-Century Research Group are delighted to announce the following two seminars:

  • Monday, Nov, 17, 3 pm, (Week 11), Maunsell Room: Christina Morin, ‘What happens depends a lot on where it happens’: (Re)-Mapping eighteenth-century Irish Gothic’
  • Tuesday, Nov. 25, 3pm, (Week 12), Millstream MC2005: Caitríona Ni Shíocháin, ‘Play, Continue reading UL-MIC #18thC Seminars, November 2014

CFP: 2015 ECIS Annual Conference

The next Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire San Ochtú Céad Déag Annual Conference will be held in University College Cork, 12-14 June 2015.

The Call for Papers is now open and available from our Annual Conference page.

Queries about the conference and call for papers should be addressed to the conference organiser, Dr Continue reading CFP: 2015 ECIS Annual Conference

CFP: ISECS Seminar for Early Career Scholars, July 2015

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The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ annual Seminar for Early Career Scholars will take place 20-25 July 2015, in Amsterdam. This is a prestigious event limited to 15 participants and offering travel/accommodation costs as well as the opportunity for publication after the seminar. All ECIS early career members are encouraged to Continue reading CFP: ISECS Seminar for Early Career Scholars, July 2015

CFP: Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period

Papers are invited for a forthcoming book, to be published by Irish Academic Press, which will showcase new scholarship focused on the history of fine art in Ireland in the early modern period (c. 1600-c. 1815).

Abstracts of proposed papers (approx. 400 words) and a brief biographical note (max. 200 words) can be Continue reading CFP: Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period

ASECS Irish-American Travel Grant 2015

Applications are invited for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Irish-American Travel Grant Scheme 2014-15.

The purpose of the award is to support documentary scholarship on Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act of Union (1800), by enabling North American-based scholars to travel to Ireland Continue reading ASECS Irish-American Travel Grant 2015

Lecture: Collecting Medicine in Early Eighteenth-Century Dublin

A lecture by Elizabethanne Boran entitled ‘Collecting Medicine in Early Eighteenth-Century Dublin: The Edward Worth Library’, hosted by the History of Medicine Section of RAMI (Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland), will take place at 6.15pm on 17 September at Setanta Place, Dublin 2.

In this lecture Elizabethanne Boran explores the medical Continue reading Lecture: Collecting Medicine in Early Eighteenth-Century Dublin

CFP: Irish Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference

The Irish Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) is currently seeking participants for two panels that have been assembled for the upcoming 2015 ASECS conference in Los Angeles, March 19-22, 2015.

Please see the descriptions of these panels below and consider proposing a paper for one of them. Graduate Continue reading CFP: Irish Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference

CFP: BSECS 44th Annual Conference

The 44th annual conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will take place on 6 – 8 January 2015 at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom.

The BSECS annual conference deals with all aspects of the history, culture and literature of the long eighteenth century.

Proposals are invited for papers and sessions Continue reading CFP: BSECS 44th Annual Conference

The Irish Poet and the Natural World

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The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics. Cork University Press, 2014. 430 pages,

ISBN: 9781782050643

This annotated anthology of poems makes available a rich variety of Irish texts depicting the relationship between humans and the environment between the years 1580 and Continue reading The Irish Poet and the Natural World

Censored Lecture Series

‘Censored’ is a series of eight free evening lectures taking place at the National Print Museum from September 2014 to August 2015.

The advent of printing in fifteenth-century Europe meant that texts, ideas, and opinions could be reproduced and diffused on an unprecedented scale. In response, most European countries established new institutions, laws Continue reading Censored Lecture Series

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, 29-30 August

Registration for the 4th Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference is now open. The conference will take place on 29 & 30 August 2014 at the Iontas Building, North Campus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Building upon the tremendous success of past conferences, this year’s programme boasts papers on a broad range Continue reading Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference, 29-30 August

CFP: Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland, 1700-1900

A one-day symposium on ‘Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland 1700-1900’ will be held at NUI Galway on 20 February 2015.

This one-day symposium will examine the area of translation in Ireland between 1700 and 1900 in order to widen our understanding of cultural exchange during the period and to create new perspectives on Continue reading CFP: Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland, 1700-1900

Educating the Irish Genius Symposium

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The ‘Educating the Irish Genius’ international symposium will be held in Kilkenny College on 25-27 July 2014.

The symposium explores the proposition that we can, and we should, identify a discrete Irish Enlightenment, just as we do a distinctive Scottish Enlightenment, focusing on individuals like Swift and Berkeley—and William Molyneux, Katherine Jones, Continue reading Educating the Irish Genius Symposium

CFP: Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century

A two-day symposium on ‘Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century’ will be held at the University of Limerick, 28-29 August 2014. The symposium may be of interest to long eighteenth-centuryists working on material from the 1780s, 1790s, and early 1800s. For further information, please download the call for papers here, Continue reading CFP: Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century