Vol. 12: O’Flaherty, Eamonn.

Type: Article

O’Flaherty, Eamonn. ‘Burke and the Catholic Question’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 7-27.

This article examines Edmund Burke’s writings on the Catholic question, which span nearly four decades and “contain important evidence of the development of Burke’s ideas about the nature of law and obligation and the Continue reading Vol. 12: O’Flaherty, Eamonn.

Vol. 12: Barnard, T. C.

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.

Vol. 12: Carey, Daniel.

Type: Article

Carey, Daniel. ‘Swift Among The Freethinkers’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 89-99.

Jonathan Swift’s 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 Swift’s political position as a Tory. Continue reading Vol. 12: Carey, Daniel.

Vol. 12: Mac Craith, Mícheál.

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.

Vol. 12: Doyle, Thomas.

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.

Vol. 12: Caffentzis, C. George.

Type: Article

Caffentzis, C. George. ‘Why Did Berkeley’s Bank Fail? Money and Libertinism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 100-115..

Bishop George Berkeley’s 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.