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Tucker, Bernard. ‘‘Our Chief Poetess’: Mary Barber and Swift’s Circle.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 7 (1992), Pp 43-56.

Until recently, according to Bernard Tucker, ‘scant attention’ has been paid to Irish women poets of the first half of the eighteenth-century. Despite the success of her collection titled Poems

Type: Article Magennis, Eoin. ‘A “Beleaguered Protestant”?: Walter Harris and the Writing of Fiction Unmasked in Mid-Eighteenth Century Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 86-111. This article looks at the attitudes… Vol. 13: Magennis, Eoin.

Type: Review Article Mac Craith, Mícheál. ‘Breandán Ó Buachalla, Aisling Ghéar’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 166-71. This is a review (in English) of a major work on Irish Jacobitism :… Vol. 13: Mac Craith, Mícheál.

Type: Article Le Juen, Yves. ‘The Abbé MacGeoghegan Dies’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 135-148. This article examines the papers relating to the demise of the Abbé James MacGeoghegan, conserved in… Vol. 13: Le Juen, Yves.

Type: Article Friend, María Losada. ‘Ghosts or Frauds? Oliver Goldsmith and The Mystery Revealed’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 159-165.. This article looks at Oliver Goldsmith’s 1762 pamphlet The Mystery Revealed… Vol. 13: Friend, María Losada.

Type: Article Fagan, Patrick. ‘Infiltration of Dublin Freemason Lodges by United Irishmen and other Republican Groups’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 65-85. This article gives an account of the infiltration of… Vol. 13: Fagan, Patrick.

Type: Article

O’Flaherty, Eamonn. ‘Burke and the Catholic Question’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 7-27.

This article examines Edmund Burke’s writings on the Catholic question, which span nearly four decades and “contain important evidence of the development of Burke’s ideas about the nature of law and obligation and theVol. 12: O’Flaherty, Eamonn.

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Lowe, N. F. ‘James Barry, Mary Wollstonecraft and 1798’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 60-76.

One of James Barry’s paintings, Portraits in the Character of Ulysses and a Companion, depicts Edmund Burke as Ulysses, motioning to his companion to be silent. From Barry’s point of view,Vol. 12: Lowe, N. F.

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Davies, Simon. ‘Irish Reactions to a French bestseller’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 87-88.

This article offers a brief discussion of Irish reactions to the French bestseller, Les liaisons dangereuses (1782). The 1784 English translation was pirated and printed in Dublin, and became popular in atVol. 12: Davies, Simon.

Type: Review Article

Barnard, T. C. ‘The Gentrification of Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 137-55.

This article assesses the contribution to the study of eighteenth-century Ireland of Dr Kevin Whelan, whom the author characterises as “one of the liveliest writers on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland” to haveVol. 12: Barnard, T. C.