Day: February 17, 2015

Type: Article

Geoghegan, Vincent. ‘A Jacobite History: The Abbé MacGeoghegan’s History of Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp37-55.

This article examines the political theories behind Abbé James MacGeoghegan’s History of Ireland and looks at possible sources to shed light on his political thinking. MacGeoghegan’s beliefs in divine right, indefeasible Continue reading Vol. 6: Geoghegan, Vincent.

Type: Article

Gargett, Graham. ‘Voltaire and Irish History’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 117-141.

Despite his reputation as “the Enlightenment’s greatest and most universal figure” and as one of the most accomplished historians of the eighteenth century, Voltaire has remained a figure of controversy. While Gargett focuses on Continue reading Vol. 5: Gargett, Graham.

Type: Notes

Williams, N. J. A. ‘A Note on John K’Eogh’s Herbal’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 198-202.

This article examines the problem of identifying plants of Ireland as listed in John K’eogh’s Botanologia Universalis Hibernica (1735), a book written not in traditional Irish, but in Manx, or in Continue reading Vol. 2: Williams, N. J. A.

Type: Article

Watson, Seosamh. ‘Aortha: Ainmhithe agus Eile. (The Irish satirist’s power over animals and others)’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 89-95.

This article is in Irish. Watson considers the honoured position of poets in early Irish society : a position partially based on an almost universal fear of their power to satirize. The satire followed certain conventions, and this paper deals with some of these conventions, especially the characterisation of the victims as animals. The survival of Irish poetic satire into the post-classical period is also studied using examples of satires composed in south-east Ulster in the middle of the eighteenth century.

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.

Type: Article

Falvey, Jeremiah. ‘The Church of Ireland episcopate in the eighteenth century: an overview.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 103-114..

This article considers the actions of the 123 men who ruled the Church of Ireland as bishops in the eighteenth century. It considers the limitations of episcopal Continue reading Vol. 8: Falvey, Jeremiah.

Type: Notes

Durey, Michael. ‘John Hughes, reluctant agent provocateur and millenarian: a note and new documents’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), 141-146..

Discusses two previously unknown letters written by John Hughes—a United Irish bookseller from Belfast—to Thomas Jefferson in 1802. According to Durey, these letters shed light on details Continue reading Vol. 7: Durey, Michael.

Type: Article

Fagan, Patrick. ‘The Population of Dublin in the eighteenth century with particular reference to the proportions of protestants and catholics.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp 121-56..

This article examines transformation in the population of Dublin in the eighteenth-century from a mainly protestant city at the beginning of Continue reading Vol. 6: Fagan, Patrick.

Type: Article

Davies, Simon. ‘The Northern Star and the propagation of enlightened ideas.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 143-152.

The first issue of The Northern Star in Belfast on 4 January 1792 effectively launched, “the organ of the founding fathers of the Society of United Irishmen”. This article Continue reading Vol. 5: Davies, Simon.

Type: Notes

Ward, Robert E. ‘A Letter from Ireland: A Little-Known Attack on David Hume’s History of England’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 196-197.

This article discusses a letter written in 1762 by Charles O’Conor of Belanagare, historian and catholic activist, complaining about David Hume’s History of England. Continue reading Vol. 2: Ward, Robert E.

Type: Article

Elias, A.C. Jr. ‘Lord Orrery’s copy of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Swift (1751)’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 111-125.

This article gives an account of the copy of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift purchased by the University of Pennsylvania Library in 1981. The copy came from Orrery’s library and includes not only the text but also eleven pages of manuscript letters. These letters are printed as an appendix to the article. The text of the Memoirs is a pirated version of Orrery’s own Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift (1751), which adds seven anecdotes about Jonathan Swift. The article assesses the importance of these anecdotes and of the manuscript correspondence between Orrery and Faulkner, which concerns the printing of the pirated Memoirs.

Type: Article

Boydell, Barra. ‘The United Irishmen, music, harps, and national identity’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 44-51.

This article discusses the role of Irish music in the political events of the late eighteenth-century, and the harp as a symbol of nationalism and as a metaphor for Ireland. Boydell looks at the influence of harp societies and festivals in late-eighteenth century Dublin and Belfast and at the Volunteer and United Irish movements use of songs to propagate their ideas. She also considers Thomas Moore’s use of the harp as a nationalist literary metaphor and mentions the early nineteenth-century replacement of the ‘formalised winged-maiden’ harp of ascendancy Ireland with its imperial crown — by more realistic images of the early Irish harp.

Type: Article

Cullen, L. M. ‘The Contemporary and later politics of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 8 (1993), Pp 7-38..

This article discusses an important eighteenth-century poem in Irish, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire, a lament for young Art O’Leary, shot dead because he would not sell his horse Continue reading Vol. 8: Cullen, L. M.

Type: Article

Buttimer, Cornelius G. ‘Tuairisc Amhailt Uí Iartáin: An eighteenth-century poem on a fair.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 75-94.

This article analyses the Gaelic poem, Tuairisc Amhailt Uí Iartáin ar Aonach Chlár Chluana Mhic Mhuiris sonn, a burlesque, ‘microcosmic’ account of an eighteenth-century fair. Buttimer discusses Continue reading Vol. 7: Buttimer, Cornelius G.

Type: Article

Bartlett, Thomas. ‘Religious rivalries in France and Ireland in the age of the French Revolution.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 6 (1991), pp 57-76..

This article compares and contrasts domestic religious feuding in Ireland and France during the 1790’s. Bartlett examines the religious history of France and the counter-revolution in Continue reading Vol. 6: Bartlett, Thomas.

Type: Notes

Alsop, J.D. ‘A Whig Attack on A Tale of a Tub, 1711.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 189-191.

This note discusses the publishing of various Whig attacks on Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub. These, according to Alsop, were politically inspired criticisms “from the Whig Continue reading Vol. 5: Alsop, J.D.

Type: Notes

McParland, Edward. ‘A Note on George II and St. Stephen’s Green.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 187-195.

In 1758, the equestrian statue of George II was unveiled in the centre of St. Stephen’s Green. This article discusses the aesthetics, modelling, and erection of the statue and Continue reading Vol. 2: McParland, Edward.

Type: Article

Poppe, Erich. ‘Leibniz and Eckhart on the Irish language’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 1 (1986), pp 65-84.

This article discusses the interest of two German comparative linguists, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and Johann Georg Eckhart (1664-1730) in the Irish language. Eckhart contributed to Irish studies with his partial edition of the Old Irish glosses from the Codex Paulinus Wirziburgensis. According to Poppe, Leibniz and Eckhart ‘show the range of approaches and interests in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century language-study; the speculative-comparative, the speculative-historical, the descriptive, and the interplay of the three’. Though these scholars found many links between Irish and Welsh, Basque and Frisian, Leibniz believed Irish to be an ‘isolated language’ : one that can be ‘used to illustrate not only the language of the British Isles before the coming of the Saxons, but also the language used in the North-German coastal areas before the coming of the Cimbric tribes…’ Included are Eckhart’s proposed etymologies of some Irish words, a full bibliography and translations into English of the Latin passages quoted in the article.

Type: Article

Ó hOgartaigh, Margaret. ‘Edward Hay: Historian of 1798’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 121-133.

This article assesses the impact that Edward Hay’s involvement in the political events of the 1790’s had on Catholic policies between 1792 and 1822. Ó hOgartaigh looks at Hay’s career in the 1790’s, which marked the ‘entry of middle-class Catholics into Irish public life’, and assesses the impact of the Catholic Relief Act, the Militia Act and the Convention Act (all passed in 1793) on Hay’s career. The article examines Hay’s activities before and after the 1798 rebellion in an attempt to analyse Hay’s precise role in the revolt which, according to Ó hOgartaigh, has been distorted by Hay’s own History of the Insurrection of the County Wexford, a ‘personal vindication’ produced in order to clarify and, in some instances, conceal his role in the rebellion.

Type: Article

Garnham, Neal. ‘The Short Career of Paul Farrell: A Brief Consideration of Law Enforcement in Eighteenth-Century Dublin’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 11 (1996), pp 46-52.

Dublin in the early 1730s was a city experiencing many difficulties: famine threatened, the textile industry was in depression, and angry weavers and tradesmen Continue reading Vol. 11: Garnham, Neal.