Events

The Society’s Annual Conference 2012 will be held in the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, on 22-24 June 2012.

Further details will be posted in the near future; meanwhile, a call for papers is available here (.pdf format).

Queries should be addressed to the conference organiser:

News: Penal Laws volume launched

The Society is delighted to announce a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr, entitled New Perspectives on the Penal Laws, which was officially launched at the annual conference in Trim in July 2011. This new venture by the Society features some of the best papers from the special conference on the penal laws held in UCD in September 2009. The cost for members is €15.00 / £13.00 / $20.00 (inclusive of postage and packaging) and a flyer/order form is available here.

ASECS Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship

The closing date for applications for the current awards of the ASECS Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship is 15 November 2011. Further details of the scheme may be had from the ASECS website.

Previous ECIS Conferences

2011

The 2011 Annual Conference was held in association with the Trim Swift Festival, which each year celebrates the life, work and legacy of Jonathan Swift and his close association with the town of Trim. A copy of the programme is available here.

2010

The Society’s Annual Conference was held at the University of Limerick on 25-26 June 2010, andincorporated the third in a series of conferences organised in conjunction with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and La Société Française d’Étude du Dix-huitième siècle on the theme ofCultural transfers and the circulation of knowledge between France, Great Britain and Ireland. The conference programme is available here, and abstracts of the papers delivered here.

2009

The 2009 Annual Conference was held on 4-6 September at University College, Dublin.
A copy of the programme is available here.

2008

The 2008 Annual Conference was held on 13–14 June at University College, Cork.
A copy of the programme is available here.

2007

The 2007 Annual Conference was held on 15-17 June at the Queen’s University Belfast.
A copy of the programme is available here, and abstracts of the papers delivered here.

2006

The 2006 Annual Conference was held on 16-18 June at the University of Ulster (Magee Campus). A copy of the programme is available here, and abstracts of the papers delivered here.

2005

2005 was the bicentenary of the death of the celebrated North Munster poet Brian Merriman (1749-1805), author of Cúirt an Mhean-Oíche (The Midnight Court). To mark the occasion, the Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Annual Conference was organised in association with Cumann Merriman and held on 9-12 June at the University of Limerick. A copy of the programme is available here.

2004

The 2004 Annual Conference, on the theme of Ireland and Scotland: Conjoined Histories, was organised jointly with the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society and held on 17-20 June at the Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. A copy of the programme is available here.

In February 2004, the Society also successfully hosted its second one-day conference at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick on the fortunes of the Irish language in the long eighteenth century (fógracomhdhála ar fáil anseo).

2003

The 2003 Annual Conference, on the theme of Religious and Political Identity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, was held on 2-4 May at Trinity College, Dublin and Dublin City Public Libraries. A copy of the programme is available here.

2002

In 2002, in addition to its Annual Conference at NUI Maynooth (programme available here), the Society hosted a one-day conference at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick on the fortunes of the Irish language in the long eighteenth century (tá clár na comhdhála ar fáil anseo).