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Vol. 1: Williams, N. J. A.

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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… 

Vol. 11: O’Connor, Thomas.

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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

Vol. 5: McLoughlin, T. O.

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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Dodsley contracted Edmund Burke to write the Abridgment of English History, which Burke never finished and which went unpublished until after his death.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

Vol. 6: O’Flaherty, Éamon.

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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

Vol. 7: O’Donnell, Ruan and Bob Reece.

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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

Vol. 8: Ó Buachalla, Breandán.

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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

Vol. 1: Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid

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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… 

Vol. 12: Mac Craith, Mícheál.

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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

Vol. 5: Kelly, James

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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

Vol. 6: Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid.

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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