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 1790s. Bartlett examines the religious history of France and the counter-revolution in Continue reading Vol. 6: Bartlett, Thomas.
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 Swifts A Tale of a Tub. These, according to Alsop, were politically inspired criticisms from the Whig Continue reading Vol. 5: Alsop, J.D.
Type: Notes
McParland, Edward. ‘A Note on George II and St. Stephens 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. Stephens Green. This article discusses the aesthetics, modelling, and erection of the statue and Continue reading Vol. 2: McParland, Edward.
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) and Johann Georg Eckhart (1664-1730) in the Irish language. Eckhart contributed to Irish studies with his partial edition of the Old Irish glosses from the Codex Paulinus Wirziburgensis. According to Poppe, Leibniz and Eckhart ‘show the range of approaches and interests in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century language-study; the speculative-comparative, the speculative-historical, the descriptive, and the interplay of the three’. Though these scholars found many links between Irish and Welsh, Basque and Frisian, Leibniz believed Irish to be an ‘isolated language’ : one that can be ‘used to illustrate not only the language of the British Isles before the coming of the Saxons, but also the language used in the North-German coastal areas before the coming of the Cimbric tribes…’ Included are Eckhart’s proposed etymologies of some Irish words, a full bibliography and translations into English of the Latin passages quoted in the article.
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 1790’s had on Catholic policies between 1792 and 1822. Ó hOgartaigh looks at Hay’s career in the 1790’s, which marked the ‘entry of middle-class Catholics into Irish public life’, and assesses the impact of the Catholic Relief Act, the Militia Act and the Convention Act (all passed in 1793) on Hay’s career. The article examines Hay’s activities before and after the 1798 rebellion in an attempt to analyse Hay’s precise role in the revolt which, according to Ó hOgartaigh, has been distorted by Hay’s own History of the Insurrection of the County Wexford, a ‘personal vindication’ produced in order to clarify and, in some instances, conceal his role in the rebellion.
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 Continue reading Vol. 11: Garnham, Neal.
