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Volume 12

Abstracts from Volume 12 of Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr. Volume 12 was published in 1997.

Vol. 12: O’Flaherty, Eamonn.

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O’Flaherty, Eamonn. ‘Burke and the Catholic Question’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 7-27.

This article examines Edmund Burke’s writings on the Catholic question, which span nearly four decades and “contain important evidence of the development of Burke’s ideas about the nature of law and obligation and theVol. 12: O’Flaherty, Eamonn.

Vol. 12: Lowe, N. F.

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Lowe, N. F. ‘James Barry, Mary Wollstonecraft and 1798’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 60-76.

One of James Barry’s paintings, Portraits in the Character of Ulysses and a Companion, depicts Edmund Burke as Ulysses, motioning to his companion to be silent. From Barry’s point of view,Vol. 12: Lowe, N. F.

Vol. 12: Davies, Simon.

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Davies, Simon. ‘Irish Reactions to a French bestseller’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 87-88.

This article offers a brief discussion of Irish reactions to the French bestseller, Les liaisons dangereuses (1782). The 1784 English translation was pirated and printed in Dublin, and became popular in atVol. 12: Davies, Simon.

Vol. 12: Barnard, T. C.

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Barnard, T. C. ‘The Gentrification of Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 137-55.

This article assesses the contribution to the study of eighteenth-century Ireland of Dr Kevin Whelan, whom the author characterises as “one of the liveliest writers on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland” to haveVol. 12: Barnard, T. C.

Vol. 12: Carey, Daniel.

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Carey, Daniel. ‘Swift Among The Freethinkers’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 89-99.

Jonathan Swift’s ongoing ‘literary battles’ with freethinkers impelled him to use a variety of rhetorical strategies to combat the threat which freethinkers posed to Anglican orthodoxy and to Swift’s political position as a Tory. Vol. 12: Carey, Daniel.

Vol. 12: Reece, Bob.

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Reece, Bob. ‘Irish Anticipations of Botany Bay’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 116-136..

In 1786, with the need for an alternative to trans-Atlantic transport of convicts from Britain to America, the British government announced plans for the establishment of a convict settlement in Botany Bay, New SouthVol. 12: Reece, Bob.

Vol. 12: Mac Craith, Mícheál.

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Mac Craith, Mícheál. ‘Fingal: eipic thosaigh James Macpherson’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 77-86.

In this article (which is in Irish), Mac Craith considers the vexed question of vernacular Gaelic influence on the pseudo-epic poetry of James MacPherson, especially on Fingal (1761). The author considersVol. 12: Mac Craith, Mícheál.

Vol. 12: Doyle, Thomas.

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Doyle, Thomas. ‘Jacobitism, Catholicism and the Irish Protestant Elite, 1700-1710’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 28-59.

In the period from 1700-1710, formal and informal charges of Jacobitism against members of the Irish protestant élite were relatively common. This affected protestant churchmen, judges, students, Tories, and gentryVol. 12: Doyle, Thomas.

Vol. 12: Caffentzis, C. George.

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Caffentzis, C. George. ‘Why Did Berkeley’s Bank Fail? Money and Libertinism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, Eighteenth-century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, Vol. 12 (1997), pp 100-115..

Bishop George Berkeley’s proposal for a National Bank of Ireland received “some notoriety in the history of economic thought” after it was published in The Querist inVol. 12: Caffentzis, C. George.