Day: February 17, 2015

Type: Article

Watson, Seosamh. ‘Filíocht Shéamais Daill Mhic Cuarta – Nótaí Teanga (“Linguistic Notes on Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta’s Poetry”).’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp 77-92.

This article, which is in Irish, analyses the rich assonantal rhymes in the published verse of the Co. Meath poet Séamas Mac Cuarta Continue reading Vol. 6: Watson, Seosamh.

Type: Article

O’Halloran, Clare. ‘“‘The Island of Saints and Scholars’: Views of the Early Church and Sectarian Politics in Late-Eighteenth Century Ireland.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 7-20.

This article analyses the difficulties faced by both Catholic and Protestant historians of Ireland in the late eighteenth century. Continue reading Vol. 5: O’Halloran, Clare.

Type: Notes

Williams, N. J. A. ‘Thomas Wilson, Francis Hutchinson agus Litriú na Gaeilge’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), .

This note is in Irish. It considers the catechism printed in a phonetic form of Irish in 1722 for Francis Hutchinson, bishop of Down and Connor, and asks whether this method of representing a Celtic language was copied from that used by Thomas Wilson, bishop of Sodor and Man, in his Manx Gaelic and English catechism of 1707.

Type: Article

O’Connor, Thomas. ‘Surviving the Civil Constitution of the Clergy: Luke Joseph Hooke’s Revolutionary experiences’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 11 (1996), pp 129-145..

The French Civil Constitution reforms of 1790 forced ancien regime ecclesiastics to take the civic oath or be sacked from their posts. Among those who refused Continue reading Vol. 11: O’Connor, Thomas.

Type: Article

Ó Buachalla, Breandán. ‘Irish Jacobitism in official documents.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 128-138..

The author of this article deplores the lack of interest among historians of eighteenth-century Ireland in Jacobitism and provides a list of documents which he considers should be consulted for any study of Continue reading Vol. 8: Ó Buachalla, Breandán.

Type: Article

O’Donnell, Ruan and Bob Reece. ‘‘A Clean Beast’: Crofton Croker’s Fairy Tale of General Holt’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 7-42.

This article discusses Thomas Crofton Croker’s Memoirs of Joseph Holt…(1838), edited by Croker from Joseph Holt’s own autobiographical manuscript ‘The Live [sic] and Adventures of Joseph Continue reading Vol. 7: O’Donnell, Ruan and Bob Reece.

Type: Article

O’Flaherty, Éamon. ‘Urban Politics and Municipal Reform in Limerick, 1723-62’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp 105-120..

O’Flaherty selects Limerick as a case study for a consideration of the issues involved in the calls for Irish municipal reform in the eighteenth century. He outlines the facts of Continue reading Vol. 6: O’Flaherty, Éamon.

Type: Article

McLoughlin, T. O. ‘Edmund Burke’s Abridgment of English History’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 45-59.

In 1757, Robert Dodsley contracted Edmund Burke to write the Abridgment of English History, which Burke never finished and which went unpublished until after his death. According to McLoughlin, “Little attempt Continue reading Vol. 5: McLoughlin, T. O.

Type: Article

Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid ‘Dán in Ómós do Shilbheastar Ó hAllmhuráin, 1728-1807. (An Irish poem in honour of Sylvester O’Halloran, 1728-1807)’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 85-88.

This article, which is in Irish, prints the text of a poem written by Tomás Ó Míocháin in honour of one of the great surgeons of eighteenth-century Ireland, Sylvester O’Halloran. O’Halloran lived in Limerick and the poem was probably written in Ennis.

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.

Type: Article

Murphy, Seán. ‘Charles Lucas, catholicism and nationalism.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 83-102..

This article suggests that historians have overstated Charles Lucas’s anti-catholicism and asserts that his stress on the need for Irish autonomy entitles him to be called a patriot. Murphy considers Lucas’s political career Continue reading Vol. 8: Murphy, Seán.

Type: Review Article

Ó Buachalla, Breandán. ‘Poetry and Politics in Early Modern Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 149-175..

This article takes as its starting point The Gaelic Mind and the Collapse of the Gaelic World by Michelle O Riordan (Cork University Press, 1990), in which the author selects Continue reading Vol. 7: Ó Buachalla, Breandán.

Type: Article

Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid. ‘‘Tho Not In Full Stile Compleat’: Jacobite Songs From Gaelic Manuscript Sources’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), 93-103..

This article reprints eleven Jacobite songs in English as examples of “linguistically typical” verses of the eighteenth-century. According to Ó Muirithe, these songs are “tentative literary Continue reading Vol. 6: Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid.

Type: Article

Kelly, James ‘Eighteenth-Century Ascendancy: A Commentary’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 173-187.

Diverse views have been expressed in the pages of Eighteenth-Century Ireland about both the development of the concept of ‘Protestant ascendancy’ and the use of the term itself. In this article, James Kelly responds Continue reading Vol. 5: Kelly, James

Type: Article

Murphy, Sean. ‘Burke and Lucas: an authorship problem re-examined’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 143-156.

This article argues against biographers of Edmund Burke in their conviction that Burke was hostile to the Anglo-Irish nationalist, Charles Lucas. According to Sean Murphy, Burke’s political opinion of Lucas is significant: ‘the probability that Burke started his political career by supporting a forerunner of Irish nationalism such as Charles Lucas has important implications for the debate on whether Burke’s political thought is in essence ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative”. Various pseudonymous articles, some supporting Lucas, some opposing him, are examined. According to Burke’s early biographer James Prior, Burke satirized Lucas as ‘Epaminondas’, though Murphy asserts that there is no documentary evidence of this. Murphy asks whether Burke was the pseudonymous author of four pamphlets in support of Lucas signed ‘Free Briton’, and whether he was also the anonymous ‘B’ who composed five essays on patriotism printed in Lucas’s newspaper, the Censor? In answer, he provides evidence that Burke could only have written the latter, and concludes that Burke supported Lucas in a ‘cautious and moderate way’.

Type: Article

Jones, Catherine A. ‘”Our partial Attachments”: Tom Moore and 1798’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 24-43.

This article examines the influence of revolutionary nationalism on the poet Thomas Moore and the writing of his Irish Melodies (1808-34). Jones traces Moore’s beginnings in Ireland prior to his becoming a London literary émigré, from his early years as a student at Trinity College Dublin, which was a ‘hotbed of nationalism’, to his friendship with United Irishmen Edward Hudson and Robert Emmet, whose political enthusiasm and appreciation of Irish music inspired Moore’s Melodies. Jones also discusses the relationship between Moore’s Melodies and two important philosophical works, Francis Hutcheson’s An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) and David Hume’s Philosophical Essays (1748).

Type: Article

Morley, Vincent. ‘Hugh MacCurtin: an Irish Poet in the French Army’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 49-58.

In 1925, T.F. O’Rahilly published the text of a poem by the eighteenth-century Irish poet, Hugh MacCurtin in which MacCurtin portrays himself as a soldier. This article questions whether Continue reading Vol. 8: Morley, Vincent.

Type: Article

Keogh, Daire. ‘‘The most dangerous villain in society’; Fr John Martin’s mission to the United Irishmen of Wicklow in 1798’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 115-135.

This article discusses the activities of ‘rebel priests’ in the 1790’s and their involvement with the United Irishmen and the 1798 Continue reading Vol. 7: Keogh, Daire.

Type: Notes

Kinane, Vincent. ‘Les liaisons dangereuses: an unrecorded Dublin edition of 1784 and its counterfeit ‘Geneva’ issue.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp 159-160.

A brief discussion of a 1784 Dublin printing of Les liaisons dangereuses (1782) by Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, issued by Luke White, which has Continue reading Vol. 6: Kinane, Vincent.

Type: Article

Hick, Vivien. ‘John Wesley and the Irish Rhinelanders’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 89-103.

This article discusses the connections between John Wesley and the Palatine communities in Ireland, which he visited regularly over a period of twenty-nine years. His Methodism appealed to the Palatines, many of Continue reading Vol. 5: Hick, Vivien.

Type: Article

Cullen, Louis ‘Catholics Under the Penal Laws’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 23-36.

This article considers the impact of the penal laws of eighteenth-century Ireland on Irish catholics. Cullen discusses catholic interest in property and politics, career paths followed by catholics and levels of church organization to suggest that the impact of the penal laws has been exaggerated. He argues that not only was catholic interest strong in this period, but that, in some cases and regions it actually increased. The article looks at various regions and their landholding families, concluding that, aside from the north, where Ulster catholics were denied the right to worship or build churches, catholic interest and achievement was stronger and more complex in eighteenth-century Ireland than has previously been thought.

Type: Article

Hyland, Cal and James Kelly. ‘Richard Twiss’s A Tour of Ireland in 1775 (London, 1776) The Missing Pages and some other notes’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 52-64.

This article gives an account of Richard Twiss’s own annotated copy of the London edition of his A Tour of Ireland in 1775, in which he inserted the four pages (162-165) which he had removed from the edition as published. These pages contain an attack on Gorges Edmond Howard, and a full transcription of the text of the missing pages is provided in this article. Included also are Twiss’s many other manuscript additions and annotations to the text. According to Hyland and Kelly, ‘the discovery of Twiss’s own copy, complete with the ‘missing pages’ and the author’s annotations, is more than just a bibliographical curiosity, it is a matter of some cultural as well as literary consequence’.

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.

Type: Article

Morley, Vincent. ‘Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín: File Gaeilge in Arm na Fraince’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), pp 39-48..

An article in Irish which is translated in the article which follows.

Type: Article

Kennedy, Denis. ‘The Irish Opposition, Parliamentary Reform and Public Opinion, 1793-1794.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 95-114.

This article focuses on the period leading up to the Irish Whig party’s reform bill of 1793. The Irish Whig party aimed not only to bring forward a programme Continue reading Vol. 7: Kennedy, Denis.

Type: Article

Kelly, James. ‘Jonathan Swift and the Irish Economy in the 1720’s’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp 7-36..

This article examines Jonathan Swift’s pamphleteering career of the 1720’s which ultimately, “broadened the focus of Irish economic thinking…and stimulated greater interest in and enthusiasm for schemes that encouraged indigenous Continue reading Vol. 6: Kelly, James.

Type: Article

Greene, John and Elizabeth McCrum. ‘‘Small clothes’: The evolution of men’s nether garments as evidenced in The Belfast Newsletter Index 1737-1800’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 153-171.

This article gives a general description of The Belfast Newsletter Index to demonstrate the ‘quantity and quality’ of information in Continue reading Vol. 5: Greene, John and Elizabeth McCrum.

Type: Article

Harrison, Frank Llewelyn ‘Music, Poetry and Polity in the age of Swift’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 37-63.

This survey of popular music and poetry in eighteenth-century Ireland discusses a variety of works of Irish, English, Scottish and Italian origin. Harrison considers differences and influences, musical dialect, musicians and composers. He also explores the individual experiences and impressions of music formulated by Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley, Robert Clayton and Mrs Delany (Mary Granville). The article suggests that music and poetry in the age of Swift ‘affirmed and promoted the self-identification of the several ‘nations, interests, and religions’ into which the country was divided’. Harrison notes the differences in language and style between the operas being staged in London and Dublin at the time. In London, the agenda was strictly Italian operas, while in Dublin the stage was dominated by the English ballad opera. Included are samples of musical scores discussed in the text.

Type: Article

Harvey, Karen J. ‘Religion and Money: Irish Regular Colleges in the Roman Republic of 1798-99’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 73-82..

This article concerns the fortunes of the Franciscan College of San Isidoro and the Dominican College of San Clemente in Rome – both of which provided Continue reading Vol. 8: Harvey, Karen J.

Type: Article

Kelly, Patrick. ‘‘Industry and Virtue versus Luxury and Corruption’: Berkeley, Walpole, and the South Sea Bubble Crisis.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 57-74.

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the word ‘bubble’ was used as a “term of opprobrium for delusive commercial or financial schemes”, Continue reading Vol. 7: Kelly, Patrick.