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Latest news from the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society / Cothaíonn An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag.

Kristina Decker

ECIS Postgrad Bursary Winner: Kristina Decker

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Kristina Decker is a PhD researcher at University College Cork. Her research explores women and the culture of Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Her broader interests include women’s history and the cultural history of the long… 

Andrew Dorman

ECIS Postgrad Bursary Winner: Andrew Dorman

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Andrew Dorman is a doctoral candidate in the DCU School of History and Geography. His research considers the soldier’s experience in eighteenth-century Ireland. He will be speaking about his research at the ECIS Annual Conference… 

Maria Zukovs

ECIS Postgrad Bursary Winner: Maria Zukovs

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Maria Zukovs is a PhD Candidate at the University of St Andrews. Her research explores Dublin press coverage of the French Revolution and the impact it had on contemporaneous society, culture and politics. She will… 

Eliza Spakman

ECIS Postgrad Bursary Winner: Eliza Spakman

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Eliza Spakman is Research MA student in Literary Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research explores Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s writing, specifically Maria Edgeworth. Her wider interests include the Irish Enlightenment, Female Enlightenment… 

ECIS Postgrad Bursary Winner: Elisa Cozzi

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Elisa Cozzi is a DPhil Candidate in English Language and Literature, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Her research explores the literary connections between Italy and Ireland in the Romantic Period. Her broader interests include… 

Envelope

CFP: Irish Literature and Periodical Culture Conference

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The Irish Literature and Periodical Culture Conference will take place in KU Leuven on 1-3 December 2022. Periodicals have played an important role in the production, mediation, dissemination and reception of Irish literature. By exploring… 

Ukraine

Statement for Ukraine

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We have been asked by the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, of which we are an affiliate Society, to circulate the  ‘Statement for Ukraine’ below. Dear ISECS National Society representatives / cher.ères représentant.e.s des sociétés… 

Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union 1660-1800

New Book: Politics and Political Culture in Ireland

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Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800Essays in honour of Jacqueline R. HillRaymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons, editors Political culture is not an idea that many historians of… 

Cover of The First Irish Cities. An Eighteenth-Century Transformation

Special offer on Dickson, The First Irish Cities

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Members of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society are invited to partake of a special offer on David Dickson, The First Irish Cities. An Eighteenth-Century Transformation, Yale University Press, 9780300229462, hb, 65 illustrations, 352 pages. The book…