Volume 05

Type: Notes

Woods, C.J. ‘The authorship of a letter received by Tone in America in 1795’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 192-194.

In 1795 during his exile in America, Wolfe Tone received a series of letters from Ireland that persuaded him to go to France to represent the UnitedVol. 5: Woods, C.J.

Type: Article

Williams, N. J. A. ‘Dermot O’Connor’s Blazons and Irish Heraldic Terminology’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 61-88.

This essay considers one side of the career of Dermot O’Connor, the eighteenth-century translator of Geoffrey Keating’s Foras Feasa Ar Éirinn, and an accomplished heraldic artist in Dublin and London.Vol. 5: Williams, N. J. A.

Type: Article

Watson, Seosamh. ‘Laoi Chab an Dosáin: Background to a late Ossianic Ballad’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 37-44.

This article discusses fourteen manuscript versions of Laoi Chab an Dosáin, “perhaps the most obscene literary piece in pre-modern Irish literature”. Included is a summary of the plotVol. 5: Watson, Seosamh.

Type: Article

Turpin, John. ‘French Influence on Eighteenth-Century Art Education in Dublin’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 105-116.

This article discusses drawing schools in Ireland and their development as a direct result of “the political, social and economic circumstances of Georgian Ireland, together with the influence of the FrenchVol. 5: Turpin, John.

Type: Article

Severens, Kenneth ‘Emigration and Provincialism: Samuel Cardy’s Architectual Career in the Atlantic World’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 21-36.

In 1752, Dublin master builder and carpenter Samuel Cardy emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina. Though involved in some successful buildings in Dublin, Cardy’s departure for America wasVol. 5: Severens, Kenneth

Type: Article

O’Halloran, Clare. ‘“‘The Island of Saints and Scholars’: Views of the Early Church and Sectarian Politics in Late-Eighteenth Century Ireland.’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 7-20.

This article analyses the difficulties faced by both Catholic and Protestant historians of Ireland in the late eighteenth century. Vol. 5: O’Halloran, Clare.

Type: Article

McLoughlin, T. O. ‘Edmund Burke’s Abridgment of English History’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 45-59.

In 1757, Robert Dodsley contracted Edmund Burke to write the Abridgment of English History, which Burke never finished and which went unpublished until after his death. According to McLoughlin, “Little attemptVol. 5: McLoughlin, T. O.

Type: Article

Kelly, James ‘Eighteenth-Century Ascendancy: A Commentary’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 173-187.

Diverse views have been expressed in the pages of Eighteenth-Century Ireland about both the development of the concept of ‘Protestant ascendancy’ and the use of the term itself. In this article, James Kelly respondsVol. 5: Kelly, James

Type: Article

Hick, Vivien. ‘John Wesley and the Irish Rhinelanders’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 89-103.

This article discusses the connections between John Wesley and the Palatine communities in Ireland, which he visited regularly over a period of twenty-nine years. His Methodism appealed to the Palatines, many ofVol. 5: Hick, Vivien.

Type: Article

Greene, John and Elizabeth McCrum. ‘‘Small clothes’: The evolution of men’s nether garments as evidenced in The Belfast Newsletter Index 1737-1800’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 5 (1990), pp 153-171.

This article gives a general description of The Belfast Newsletter Index to demonstrate the ‘quantity and quality’ of information inVol. 5: Greene, John and Elizabeth McCrum.