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Eighteen-Century Literture Research Network in Ireland
10th symposium
Gamble Library, Union Theological College, Belfast
Saturday 13 April 2013
10.15-10.45: Coffee / Tea
10.45–10.50: Welcome: Ian Campbell Ross (TCD)
10.50-11.30 Chair: Moyra Haslett (QUB)
Andrew Holmes (QUB), ‘Eighteenth-century holdings in the Gamble library’
11.30-12.45 Panel I. Chair: Kathryn White (UU)
Carol Baranuik (UU), ‘In the Spirit of ’98: James Orr’s Post-Union Persona’
Jennifer Orr (TCD), ‘Varieties of Dissent in Ulster-Scots poetry’
David Gray (UU), ‘Cornucopian Ulster in William Hamilton Drummond’s epic poem, The Giant’s Causeway (1811)’
12.45-1.45 Lunch.
1.45 – 3.00 Panel II. Chair: Aileen Douglas (TCD)
Frank Ferguson (UU), ‘The Presbyterian Romantic Recycling Mill: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Robert Anderson’
Willa Murphy (UU), ‘“Satisfied with the marrow and fatness”: The Epicurean Theology of Bishop Frederick Hervey’
James Ward (UU), ‘Globalizing Farquhar: The Recruiting Officer in the penal colony’
3.00-3.30 Coffee / Tea
3.30–4.45 Panel III. Chair: Rebecca Barr (NUI Galway)
Joanne Davies (QUB), ‘The Muse of Indifference: Subversion and Sensibility in Women’s Poetry, 1757-1800’
Moyra Haslett (QUB), ‘“How many Pictures of one Nymph we view”: lists of women in early eighteenth-century print culture’
Anne Markey (TCD), ‘Neglected children: the orphans of the Pollard collection, TCD’
4.45-4.50. Closing Remarks: Ian Campbell Ross
The ECLRNI most gratefully thanks the Union Theological College particularly Professor J. Patton Taylor (Principal) and Mrs Sandra McKinney (Registrar/Administrator), for generously allowing use of the Library and to Brian Henry (catering services manager) and Tom Bourega (sub-warden) for helping with arrangements on the day.
The symposium is generously supported by the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland
9th symposium
Marsh’s Library, Dublin
Saturday 24 November 2012
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-11.20 Welcome: Ian Campbell Ross (TCD)
11.20-11.55 Chair: Ian Campbell Ross
Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library), ‘Marsh’s Library: an introduction'
11.55-12.35 Panel 1 (Chair: Jim Shanahan, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra)
Clíona Ó Gallchoir (UCC), 'Samuel Madden's Reflections and Resolutions proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland: Patriot Economics, Gender and Cultural Production in Eighteenth-Century Ireland'
Jennifer Martin (UU), ‘Thomas Moore and Irish Politics: his Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825)
12.35-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.25 Panel 2 (Chair: Moyra Haslett, QUB)
Sue Hemmens (Marsh’s Library and TCD), ‘Witnessing nature: Narcissus Marsh and the caterpillar’
Liam Lenihan (UCC), ‘The Scientific Sublime: Erasmus Darwin and George Stubbs’
14.25-15.05 Panel 3 (Chair: Aileen Douglas, TCD)
James Wood (TCD), ‘Johnson and Boswell in the South Seas’
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts (QUB), ‘Mediating Indian Literature in the Age of Empire: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and Orientalism’
15.05-15.30 Tea
15.30-16.10 Panel 4 (Chair: David O’Shaughnessy, TCD)
Michael Lee (QUB), ‘“Then all you Sparks who have to Paris Rid, / And there heard Lullys Musical Armide…”: John Dennis and John Eccles’ Rinaldo and Armida (1698) and the cultural politics of adaptation’
Moyra Haslett (QUB), ‘Women and club culture: Group portraits and conversation pieces’
16.10-16.15 Closing remarks (Ian Campbell Ross)
The eclrni gratefully acknowledges the support of Marsh’s Library and the School of English, Trinity College Dublin
Sue Hemmens, Acting Deputy Keeper; Ian Campbell Ross, Convenor, ECLRNI:
Jason McElligott, Keeper, Marsh’s Library
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8th Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland Symposium
Long Room Hub, TCD
Saturday 3 December 2011
10.30-11.00 Coffee/biscuits
11.00-11.05 Welcome: Ian Campbell Ross (TCD)
11.05-11.45 Chair: Ian Campbell Ross (TCD)
Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa, NUIM), 'Digital Humanities and Literary Studies: Introducing the Proposed Electronic Edition to the Loebers’ Guide to Irish Fiction'
11.45-13.00 Chair: Andrew Carpenter (UCD)
Ian Leask (Mater Dei Institute, DCU), ‘Speaking for Spinoza? Comments on John Toland’s Origins Judaicae’
Darrell Jones (TCD), ‘Locke and Sterne, or the History of a Critical Hobby-Horse’
Sonja Lawrenson (TCD), ‘“The Most Enlightened Country in Europe”: Celtic Antiquity and European Enlightenment in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl (1806)’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Chair: Aileen Douglas (TCD)
Andrew Carpenter (UCD), ‘Who read English poetry in eighteenth-century Ireland’
Emily O’Flaherty (UCG), '''Some Guardian Pow'rs": Patronage and Berkeley’s Bermuda Scheme in the poems ofMary Barber and Constantia Grierson’
Christopher Stokes (NUIM), ‘"Whene'er to call the Saviour mine": Prayer and Affect in Eighteenth-Century Women's Verse’
15.15-15.35 Tea/biscuits
15.35-16.25 Chair: Moyra Haslett (QUB)
Sylvie Kleinman (TCD), 'Getting to know the enemy: Bishop Stock's unpublished diary of the French occupation of Mayo, 1798'
Aileen Douglas (TCD) ‘Remediation: printing script in the eighteenth century’
16.25-16.55 Chair: Amy Prendergast (TCD)
James Ward (UU), ‘Remember 1688? The Glorious Revolution and The Draughtsman's Contract’
16.55 Closing remarks: Ian Campbell Ross
The ECLRNI gratefully acknowledges the support of the Long Room Hub & the School of English, Trinity College Dublin
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7th Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland Symposium
Clinton Institute for American Studies, UCD
Saturday 2 April 2011
10.15-10.55 Coffee and biscuits
10.55 Welcome: Porscha Fermanis (UCD)
11.00-11.30 Session 1 Chair: Anne Markey (TCD)
Evelyn Flanagan (Special Collections Librarian, UCD Library): 'Research Collections at UCD: 18th and 19th Century Material'
11.30-12.10 Session 2 Chair: Anne Fogarty (UCD)
Dan Carey (UCG): 'Money, Credit, and Economic Crisis in the 1690s: John Locke's Philosophy of Money'
Darrell Jones (TCD): '"Locke on the Rocks": Coleridge at the Crown & Anchor Tavern'
12.10-1.10 Session 3 Chair: Dan Carey (UCG)
Christopher Borsing (TCD): 'Robinson Crusoe: Defoe’s Speculative Theatre'
Anne Markey (TCD): 'John Carey and the American Dream'
Niall Gillespie (TCD): ‘The Creation of the Historical Subject: Irish Radical Writing in the United States, c. 1796-1820’
1.10-2.15 Lunch
2.15-3.15 Session 4 Chair: Moyra Haslett (QUB)
Rebecca Barr (UCG): 'Fielding's 'The Cry' and the unpleasures of the imagination'
Rebecka Gronstedt (QUB), ‘The “Rise” of the Female Critic, 1673-1754’
Michelle O'Connell (UCD): 'Sappho, the Improvisatrice, and Mary Robinson'
3.15-3.45 Tea and biscuits
3.45-4.45 Session 5 Chair: Jim Kelly (TCD)
Lucy Cogan (UCD), ‘Sarah Butler and Charlotte Brooke: Situating Irishness’
Christina Morin (TCD): “‘She holds the dagger o’er my head”: Irish women writers and the Gothic novel, 1760-1800’
Dara Downey (TCD), ‘Violence, Iconoclasm, and the Body in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland; or, The Transformation – An American Tale’
4.45 Closing remarks: Ian Campbell Ross (TCD)
Co-organizers: Porscha Fermanis
Ian Campbell Ross
The ECLRNI expresses its thanks to the School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, for financial support.
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The 6th Symposium of the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland took place on Saturday, 27th November 2010 in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.
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10.00-10.45: Arrival. Tea / Coffee and Scones
10.45–10.50: Welcome: Ian Campbell Ross (TCD)
10.50-12.05 Panel I. Chair: Moyra Haslett (QUB)
John Killen (Linen Hall Library), ‘The Linen Hall library and the reading habits of a Georgian gentleman’
Michael O’Connor (QUB), ‘The Business of Print: James Magee (1707-1797) and Reading Tastes in Eighteenth-Century Belfast’
Robert Whan (QUB), ‘Presbyterians and print in late Stuart and early Hanoverian Belfast’
12.05-12.15 Break
12.15-13.30 Panel II. Chair: Aileen Douglas (TCD)
Mark Crosby (QUB), ‘“The voice of flattery versus sober truth”: Godwin and the Theatre of the Courtroom’
Liam Lenihan (UCC), ‘An Artist of the Miltonic Sublime: James Barry and the Godwinian Paradox’
Niall Gillespie (TCD), ‘Endogamy, Consanguinity and Family Configuration in Irish Anti-Jacobin Fiction’
13.30 -14.20 Lunch
14.20-15.35 Panel III. Chair: Anne Markey (TCD)
Joseph McMinn (UU), ‘“A Shower of Bankers”: Swift, Money and Trust'
Carol Stewart (QUB), ‘Joseph Andrews, the Sacrifice of Isaac and Anticlericalism’
Jim Kelly (TCD), ‘The Beggar at the Door: Moore, Hazlitt, and Tone’
15.35-15.40 Closing Remarks
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16.30-17.30 Book Launch: Queen’s University Bookshop
Carol Stewart, The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics (Ashgate, 2010)
The ECLRNI most gratefully thanks the Linen Hall Library, particularly Brian Adgey (Director), John Killen (Librarian), and Marie Ryan (Customer Services Manager), for generously allowing use of the Library.
The symposium was generously supported by the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast.
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The fifth ECLRNI symposium took place on Saturday 21 November 2009 in Meeting Room 2 (Room 2.009) in the New Library, College Park , Queen's University Belfast.
10.15-10.45 Coffee and biscuits
10.45 Welcome: Ian Campbell Ross (TCD) & Moyra Haslett (QUB)
10.50-11.10 Diarmuid Kennedy (QUB): ‘Research opportunities in the QUB Library'
11.10-12.20 Panel 1
Moyra Haslett (QUB), ‘The Idea of a female community: learned ladies in Ballard, Amory and Johnson'
Amy Prendergast (TCD), ‘Samuel Johnson's contribution to Bluestocking conversation'
Danielle Grover (UCD), ‘Dazzling false suitors: the role of the musical duet in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Emma'.
12.20-13.30 Panel 2
John Regan (UCD): 'Adam Ferguson: Ambiguous Progress and its Poetic Correlatives'
Porscha Fermanis (UCD), ‘William Godwin's History of the Commonwealth and Psychology of Individual History'
Carol Baraniuk (U. of Glasgow), ‘A Burns Scholar Seeks Asylum'
13.30-14.15 Lunch (courtesy of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, QUB)
14.15-15.25 Panel 3
Chris Borsing (TCD), ‘“The True-Born Englishman”: Defoe's Hall of Mirrors'
Carole Stewart (Oman), ‘Eliza Haywood's The Fortunate Foundlings: A Jacobite Novel'
Allison Neill-Rabaux (UU), ‘A Literary Journal: a platform for exchange in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland?'
15.25-15.45 Tea
15.45-16.55 Panel 4
Christina Morin (QUB), ‘Recognizably Irish? The Gothic Novels of Regina Maria Roche'
Jennifer Orr (U. of Glasgow), ''"In Costume Scotch": Samuel Thomson's Fashioning of the Ulster Landscape'.
Anne Markey (TCD) ‘Mitchelstown, Mrs Mason, and moral tales for children'
16.55-17.00 Closing remarks
Acknowledgements
The Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland gratefully acknowledges the generous assistance of the Centre Eighteenth-Century Studies, QUB.
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The fourth ECLRNI symposium was held in conjuction with the Archbishop Robinson Tercentenary Commemoration. It took place on Saturday 8 November 2008 at the Public Library in Armagh.
Programme
10.30-10.55
Coffee and scones provided in the Library
11.00-11.05
Welcome: Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin)
11.05-12.10
Session 1
Carol Conlin (Armagh Public Library) ‘The Library as part of Robinson's Legacy to Armagh '
Joseph McMinn (University of Ulster), ‘Jonathan Swift and Armagh'
12.10-1.15
Session 2
Aileen Douglas (Trinity College Dublin), 'The Death and Life of Samuel Johnson'
Sonja Lawrenson (Queen's University Belfast), ‘Frances Sheridan's History of Nourjahad and the Sultan of Smock-Alley'
Christina Morin (University College Cork), ‘Regina Maria Roche's The Children of the Abbey and the Gothic Origins of the National Tale'
1.15-2.15
A soup and sandwich lunch will be provided in the Music Hall, Vicars' Hill
2.15-3.20
Session 3
Patricia Miller (Queen's University Belfast), ‘Swift, the Revd. John Lyon MS, and Lyon's connections with Armagh'
Niall Gillespie (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Literature in The National Journal '
Shaun Regan (Queen's University Belfast), '"Our Fashionable Excesses"': Taste and the Town in The Connoisseur
3.25-3.45
Session 4
The 5th ECLRNI symposium: a proposal
3.45-4.30
Tea and biscuits provided in the Library
and the opportunity to view the collection of Armagh Public Library.
The ECLRNI is grateful to the Long Room Hub, TCD, the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), and to Armagh Public Library for support.
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The third ECLRNI symposium took place on Saturday 1 March 2008 in the Pearse St Library, Dublin.
Saturday, 1 March: 10.45 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-10.50 Welcome: Ian Campbell Ross (TCD)
10.50-11.55 Panel 1
Máire Kennedy (Dublin Public Libraries): ‘Research collections at Dublin City Library and Archive'
Johanna Archbold (TCD), ‘Artefacts of literature: periodicals in Ireland, 1770-1830'
12.00-1.10 Panel 2
Andrew Carpenter (UCD) ‘Further thoughts on printing and selling nonsense in eighteenth-century Ireland'.
Sharon Murphy (TCD) ‘Anna Maria Edwards and The Enchantress '
Sinéad Sturgeon (QUB) ‘Edgeworth, Falstaff and Castle Rackrent '
1.15-2.15 Lunch (library café)
2.15-3.25 Panel 3
Porscha Fermanis (UCD) ‘Visualizing distance: the reader as spectator in Walter Scott's Waverley '
Christina Morin (UCC), ‘”The style of my friend Walter Scott”: The Albigenses as historical novel'
Jim Shanahan (TCD) ‘Canon fodder?: moving beyond the canon in early-nineteenth century fiction'.
3.25-3.45 Tea
3.50-5.00 Panel 4
Patricia Miller (QUB), ‘Bindon's portraits of Swift and their contemporary reception'
Sylvie Kleinman (TCD), ‘Wolfe Tone and the virtual library of a revolutionary in exile'
The ECLRNI gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Long Room Hub, TCD
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The second ECLRNI symposium took place on Saturday 17 November 2007 in Lucan House, Co. Dublin.
Literature and Audience: Writing, Circulation, and Publication in the Long Eighteenth Century
Saturday, 17 November: 11.00 a.m - 6 p.m.
10.30-11.00 Arrival & Coffee
11.00 Welcome
11.15-12.15 Session 1 (followed by a short question period)
Maria Anita Stefanelli (Roma 3 & TCD): ‘Elizabeth Vesey's letters from Lucan'
Moyra Haslett (QUB): ‘ Becoming bluestockings: public and private representations'
Questions
12.25 Lunch
1.00 Tour of the House
1.30-2.30 Session 2 (followed by a short question period)
Daniel Roberts (QUB): ‘ My Country Needs YOU! Audience and Recruitment in Dean Mahomed's Travels (1794)'
Aileen Douglas (TCD): ‘ Indian experiments, British audiences, and the diffusion of writing (1797-1832)'
Sharon Murphy (TCD): 'Well selected books, or, what soldiers at East India Company Stations in India were reading c. 1820- c. 1830'.
Questions
2.40 Tour of garden: 18th century building & Norman castle
3.00 Coffee/Tea
3.15-4.15 Session 3 (followed by a short question period)
Carol Baraniuk (U of Glasgow & QUB): ‘A Bardic Fraternity in South Antrim in the 1790s and 1800s'
Ian Campbell Ross (TCD): '"Printed for the Ease of her whom it was made for": the authorship and readership of Vertue Rewarded (1693)'
Questions
4.15-5.00 Panel discussion
Chair: Máire Kennedy (Dublin City Library and Archive (Gilbert Library)
5.00-6.00 Drinks
Prof. Maria Anita Stefanelli; the Ambassador of Italy, Dr. Lucio Alberto Savoia; and Prof. Ian Campbell Ross
The symposium took place in Lucan House by kind permission of the Italian Ambassador to Ireland, Dr. Lucio Alberto Savoia.
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The first ECLRNI symposium, 'Eighteenth-Century Studies in Ireland: Current Teaching at 3rd-level', took place on Saturday 3 February 2007 in the Trinity College Dublin. The speakers were:
Conrad Brunström (NUI, Maynooth)
Daniel Carey (NUI, Galway)
Andrew Carpenter (University College Dublin)
Aileen Douglas (Trinity College Dublin)
Joseph Mcminn (University of Ulster)
Clíona Ó Gallchoir (University College Cork)
Shaun Regan (Queen's University Belfast)