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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

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

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

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

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)… 

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

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… 

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