Journal
Founded in 1986, Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of new and cutting edge research on the Irish experience in the eighteenth century. The journal is received by over 50 libraries, booksellers, museums, archives, universities and other educational institutions. It is published annually and is distributed to all current members of the Society.
Editors
Christina Morin (University of Limerick)
Eoin Kinsella (Royal Irish Academy)
Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (Dublin City University)
Contributors
We are currently accepting submissions in English or in Irish for the 2026 volume of the journal. Essays should be of approximately 6-8000 words. We also publish Notes, Documents and Review Articles.
Submissions should be accompanied by 1) a brief biography and 2) an abstract in English (or in English and Irish) of approximately 150 words. All submissions to the journal should conform to the MHRA Style Guide, which may be downloaded from the MHRA website. Submissions will be reviewed by two external referees.
All submissions and enquiries should be sent to editors@ecis.ie.
Reviews
We publish reviews of the latest research in all areas of eighteenth-century Irish studies, and we warmly welcome suggestions of recently-published works to review. Please contact the journal editors at editors@ecis.ie.
Back Issues
Back issues of the journal may be obtained by contacting the Society Treasurer. Digital copies of the journal are also available on JSTOR, subject to a moving wall of three years.
A special issue of Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr, entitled New Perspectives on the Penal Laws was launched at the Society’s annual conference in July 2011. This publication features some of the best papers from the ECIS conference on the penal laws held in University College Dublin in September 2009. Copies of this special issue may be obtained by contacting the Society Treasurer.
Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr supports open access (OA) publication and encourages all authors to take advantage of ‘green’ OA by self-archiving their articles in their university repositories. ‘Gold’ OA options are also available through Liverpool University Press. Read more about LUP’s OA routes and policy here: Liverpool University Press.
Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr (ISSN: 0790-7915) is published by Liverpool University Press.
