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Type: Article Elias, A. C. Jr. ‘Dublin at Mid-Century: The Tricks of The Tricks of the Town Laid Open.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 10 (1995), pp 108-119.. This article gives an account of… 

Type: Article Douglas, Aileen. ‘Mrs. Dingley’s Spectacles: Swift, Print and Desire’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 10 (1995), pp 69-77. In his Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift is concerned with the idea of ‘seeing’… 

Type: Article Archibald, Douglas. ‘Edmund Burke and the Conservative Imagination’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 10 (1995), pp 127-147. According to Douglas Archibald, the ‘conservative imagination’ of Edmund Burke resides in a fragile balance… 

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Ross, Bianca. ‘Of Prejudice and Predilection: Lady Morgan and her ‘Annals of St. Grellan’’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 9 (1994), Pp 99-113..

This article discusses the problems associated with Lady Morgan’s use of Irish history in The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys: A National Tale (1827). Of

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Silke, John J. ‘Bishop Coyle’s Pious Miscellany’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 9 (1994), Pp 114-128..

Irish catholics writing in the eighteenth century believed there was a ‘common cause’ between catholicism and the Irish language. The fact that Anthony Coyle, bishop of Raphoe wrote his Collectanea sacra: or

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Lurbe, Pierre. ‘Epsom as emblem: John Toland’s Description of Epsom.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 9 (1994), Pp 129-136..

This article discusses The Description of Epsom (1711) by John Toland, a far lesser known work than his ‘scandalous’ Christianity not Mysterious (1696), and a surprising departure from his usual

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Carey, Daniel. ‘Swift Among The Freethinkers’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 89-99.

Jonathan Swift’s ongoing ‘literary battles’ with freethinkers impelled him to use a variety of rhetorical strategies to combat the threat which freethinkers posed to Anglican orthodoxy and to Swift’s political position as a Tory.

Type: Article O’Brien, Gillian. ‘”Spirit, Impartiality and Independence” The Northern Star, 1792-1797’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 13 (1998), pp 7-23. The ‘increasingly literate and politicised society’ of eighteenth-century Ireland demanded a quick and… 

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Hick, Vivien. ‘The Palatine Settlement in Ireland: The Early Years’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 113-131.

In April 1708, forty-one Lutherans and Calvinists, led by Lutheran Minister Joshua de Kocherthal, arrived in London from the Rhinepfaltz, seeking refuge from the ravages of the French invasion in the

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Fagan, Patrick. ‘The Dublin Catholic mob (1700-1750)’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 133-142.

This article discusses the frequent riots on Dublin’s city streets in the first three decades of the eighteenth-century. According to Fagan, these incidents went virtually undocumented by the major Irish newspapers, which had