Volume 02

Type: Article

Mahony, Robert. ‘The Pamphlet Campaign against Henry Grattan in 1797-99’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 149-166.

This article discusses the anti-Grattan pamphlet campaign following Grattan’s withdrawal from the Irish House of Commons in May 1797, and his subsequent Address to the Citizens of Dublin. Grattan’s apparent ‘desertion’Vol. 2: Mahony, Robert.

Type: Notes

‘Dictionary of Irish Biography: preliminary listing of letters A, B and C.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), .

A list of those born between 1650 and 1780 whose names begin with the letters A, B or C whom the editors of the new Dictionary of Irish BiographyVol. 2:

Type: Notes

Dolan, T. P. ‘The Manuscript of Jacob Poole’s Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 203-207.

This essay describes the manuscript of the glossary of words and phrases of the dialect of the baronies of Forth and Bargy in Co. WexfordVol. 2: Dolan, T. P.

Type: Notes

White, Harry. ‘Handel in Dublin: A Note.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 182-186.

This essay discusses the differences in ideological climate and conditions of musical performances in Dublin and London in the 1740s and so accounts for the success of Handel’s The Messiah in Dublin and itsVol. 2: White, Harry.

Type: Notes

Raynor, David R. ‘Hutcheson’s Defence against the Charge of Plagiarism’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 177-181.

After the publishing of An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in 1725, author Francis Hutcheson was accused of plagiarizing the work from Jean-Pierre de Crousaz’sVol. 2: Raynor, David R.

Type: Notes

Passman, Dirk F. ‘‘Many Diverting Books of History and Travels’ and A Modest Proposal.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 167-176.

Considers eighteenth-century travel and historical literature containing reports of infanticide and cannibalism as possible sources for Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Discusses those works either read by orVol. 2: Passman, Dirk F.

Type: Article McCormack, W. J. ‘Vision and Revision in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Irish Parliamentary Rhetoric’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987) . This essay is a critical assessment of two articles published… Vol. 2: McCormack, W. J.

Type: Article

Greene, John. ‘The Repertory of The Dublin Theatres, 1720-1745’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 133-148.

In 1938, theatre historian La Tourette Stockwell wrote of eighteenth-century Dublin that the policy of Dublin theatre managers was to ‘copy’ London stage productions and that the taste of Dublin audiences wasVol. 2: Greene, John.

Type: Article

Fitzgerald, Desmond. ‘Early Irish Trade-Cards and Other Eighteenth-Century Ephemera’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 115-132.

This essay by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, explores the importance of Irish trade-cards, labels, bill-heads and other trade ephemera and shows their ability to “evoke vividly the daily lives of theVol. 2: Fitzgerald, Desmond.

Type: Article

McMinn, Joseph. ‘A Weary Patriot: Swift and the Formation of an Anglo-Irish Identity’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 2 (1987), pp 103-113.

This article discusses the literary career of Jonathan Swift from 1720-1730 and his role as an Irish pamphleteer, which would “define and dramatize the constitutional identity of ‘theVol. 2: McMinn, Joseph.