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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… 

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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

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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

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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

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… 

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… 

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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

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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

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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”,

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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