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ECIS Annual Conference Bursaries

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The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Aois Déag is pleased to invite applications for 3 postgraduate bursaries for its annual conference in University College Cork, 17-18 June 2022. The bursaries will cover conference… 

Funding Opportunity: Louth County Archives

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Louth County Council invites proposals for research projects on the mercantile, industrial and commercial heritage of Co. Louth (using the Byrne Family of Allardstown as a focal point). Applicants should be suitably qualified researchers, including… 

CFP: EMBODYING ROMANTICISM

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The fifth biennial conference of the Romantic Studies Association of Australasia will take place in Canberra, Australia on 21-23 November 2019. The conference theme is ‘Embodying Romanticism’ and proposals are now invited for 20-minute papers… 

History Ireland Hedge School

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HA Maritime People? A Conversation on the Irish at Sea With a panel of guest speakers chaired by Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland Saturday 16 March 2019, 15:00–16:30 in the vaults, CHQ building, Custom House… 

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A.C. Elias Research Travel Fellowship 2019

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The A.C. Elias Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship of ASECS, with $2500 in annual funding, supports “documentary scholarship on Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act of Union (1800),” by enabling North American-based… 

Claudia Kinmouth

Public lecture: Rags, Riches & Recycling

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RDS Library & Archives invites you to attend the RDS Library Speaker Series talk ‘Rags, Riches & Recycling; the Dublin Society’s encouragement of art & artefacts, 1731-1781’ by Dr Claudia Kinmouth on Wednesday 31 October… 

Member Profiles: Amy Prendergast

Amy Prendergast is a committee member of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Amy’s research interests include literary history and associational life, and she is currently… 

Andrew Carpenter

Member Profiles: Andrew Carpenter

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Andrew Carpenter is a committee member of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society. He was the founding president of the society and founding editor of the society’s journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr. He is Emeritus… 

Robert Mahony

Member Profiles: Robert Mahony

Robert Mahony has been a member of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society (intermittently) since 1986. He was Professor of English at the Catholic University of America and is now retired. His research focus is Jonathan Swift.… 

Patrick Walsh

Member Profiles: Patrick Walsh

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Patrick Walsh is Reviews Editor of Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr and an Irish Research Council CARA Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the School of History and Archives, UCD. His research looks at Irish economic,…