Latest news from the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society / Cothaíonn An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag.
To celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first publication of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in 1726, an exhibition is being held in the Long Room, Trinity College Dublin, from 1 July to 31 December. The exhibition is…
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society is delighted to announce that Alan Millar (Ulster University) is the winner of the Society’s 2026 Open Research Bursary. Alan’s research examines poetry published in the United Irish newspaper The Northern…
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Annual Conference 2026 will take place in Queen’s University Belfast on the 11-12th June. Below you will find the full conference programme, as well as registration guidelines and links to Eventbrite…
The Eighteenth Century Ireland Society has awarded two Marsh’s Library Postgraduate bursaries to Jessica White (University College Cork) and Scott Macfie (University of Glasgow). Jessica’s research explores the intersections of children’s literature, political economy, and Enlightenment…
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society (ECIS) is now inviting applications for the ECIS Open Bursary 2026-7. The ECIS Open Bursary may be used for the purpose of supporting archival research, the organisation of symposiums/conferences which are…
The 2026 Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag is scheduled to take place in Queen’s University Belfast on 11-12 June 2026. Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers (in English…
The Eighteenth Century Ireland Society has awarded its first postgraduate and early career scholar bursary to Maria Zukovs (University of St. Andrews). Maria’s research examines Dublin press coverage of the French Revolution from 1788 to…
The Society’s 40th annual conference takes place on 5-6 June in the Trinity Long Room Hub at TCD. This conference marks an important milestone in the society’s history and we have a superb programme of…
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) has awarded the A.C. Elias Ireland – North America Research Travel Fellowship for 2025 to Dr Keith Ó Riain. The fellowship will assist Dr. Ó Riain in completing textual research at the Huntington Library in California necessary for completing his edition of the Irish-language poet Éadbhard de Nógla (c. 1715-1785).
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, Australia. My research focus is on the concept of charity as reflected in the writings of John Donne and Jonathan Swift, and more generally the intersection of religion, law and literature in Anglophone cultures of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.