Volume 04

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Hick, Vivien. ‘The Palatine Settlement in Ireland: The Early Years’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 113-131.

In April 1708, forty-one Lutherans and Calvinists, led by Lutheran Minister Joshua de Kocherthal, arrived in London from the Rhinepfaltz, seeking refuge from the ravages of the French invasion in theVol. 4: Hick, Vivien.

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Fagan, Patrick. ‘The Dublin Catholic mob (1700-1750)’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 133-142.

This article discusses the frequent riots on Dublin’s city streets in the first three decades of the eighteenth-century. According to Fagan, these incidents went virtually undocumented by the major Irish newspapers, which hadVol. 4: Fagan, Patrick.

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Sherry, T.F. ‘The Present Horrid Conspiracy: Dublin Press Coverage of Two Political Trials in the Early 1720s.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 143-157.

This article examines how the Dublin newspapers reported two political trials in London in the early 1720s, the treason trial of Christopher Layer andVol. 4: Sherry, T.F.

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McCormack, W. J. ‘Eighteenth-Century Ascendancy: Yeats and the Historians’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 159-181.

This article looks at present and historical usages of the terms ‘Anglo-Irish’ and ‘Protestant ascendancy’, attempting to determine their first appearance in the English language. According to McCormack, this poses aVol. 4: McCormack, W. J.

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Hayton, David ‘Two Ballads on the County Westmeath By-Election of 1723’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 7-30.

This article discusses the dispute over the 1723 by-election for County Westmeath, in which two rivals in the Irish Parliament, Speaker William Conolly and Lord Chancellor Midleton, patronized opposing candidates.Vol. 4: Hayton, David

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Barnett, Louise K. ‘Swift and Religion: Notes Towards a Psychoanalytic Interpretation’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 31-40.

The charge that he was “not entirely religious” followed Swift throughout his lifetime, and persists to the present. According to Barnett, “Being a priest was Swift’s job, not his chiefVol. 4: Barnett, Louise K.

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Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa. ‘Irish Scholars and Scribes in Eighteenth-century Dublin’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 41-54.

In 1728, Irish scribe and poet Tadhg Ó Neachtain wrote a ‘versified list’ of various Irish scholars and scribes of his acquaintance in Dublin. This article discusses the careers ofVol. 4: Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa.

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White, Harry. ‘Carolan and the Dislocation of Music in Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 55-64.

This article discusses the achievements of Irish composer and poet, Turlough Carolan (1670-1738) and the polarized perceptions of the native music tradition. “For those few who wrote about music in IrelandVol. 4: White, Harry.

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Lyons, J.B. ‘Sylvester O’Halloran, 1728-1807’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 65-74.

Sylvester O’Halloran was a surgeon, antiquarian and prolific letter writer, whose publications contributed to the medical advancement of Ireland in the eighteenth-century. He was one of the few who managed to turn the prohibition onVol. 4: Lyons, J.B.

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Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon ‘Eachtra an Amadáin Mhóir” (“The Story of the Great Fool”)’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 4 (1989), pp 75-81.

This article, which is in Irish, gives an account of one of the most famous stories in the Irish tradition, “The Story of the Great Fool”. Vol. 4: Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon