Professor Ian Ross
Fellow Emeritus, Fellows Emeritii
Biography
Ian Campbell Ross is a graduate in English of the University of Sussex and took his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He taught for two years at the University of Birmingham before taking up a post at Trinity College Dublin in 1977. He was elected Fellow in 1989 and took up a Personal Chair as Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the School of English in 2008. A specialist in eighteenth-century literature, especially the novel, he has written widely on British and Irish authors, including Smollett, Swift and Sterne. He has also written on American literature, including Henry James. With wide-ranging interests in cultural history and comparative literature, he has published a volume on the Dublin Lying-in hospital, the Rotunda; a cultural history of Umbria; an edited collection of essays on Swift, a biography of Laurence Sterne; and has produced scholarly editions of works by Sterne, James and Gian Gaspare Napolitano. A co-founder of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and the journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, which he co-edited for 10 years, he is was a co-founder of the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies, of which he was a co-director 2000-08. In 2006 he founded the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland (http://www.eclrni.com). He has successfully directed both M.Litt and PhD theses in several areas. He is general editor of the IRCHSS-assisted Early Irish Fiction project (2008-10) He was made a Cavaliere nell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana by the President of Italy in 2007.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Goldsmith and Fiction in, editor(s)David O'Shaughnessy and Michael Griffin , Oliver Goldsmith in Context , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, [Ian Campbell Ross]
[Anon], The Fair Hibernian in, editor(s)April London (ed.) , Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Oliver Goldsmith's Indigent Philosopher, U.S. foreign policy, and three American editions of The Vicar of Wakefield, 1791-1839', The Library, 2023
'Dominick Kelly' in, editor(s)James McGuire , Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dublin, RIA, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'William Chaigneau, "The History of Jack Connor"', April London (ed), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'Robert Boyle, "The Martyrdom of Theodora, and of Didymus"', April London (ed), The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Jonathan Swift: Publishing History and Legacy: Reputation in Ireland in, editor(s)Pat Rogers, Joseph Hone , Jonathan Swift in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas]
Dominick Kelly, 'The History of Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and Miss Sarah Stapleton' in, editor(s)April London (ed.) , Cambridge Guide to Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: a cultural guide, 4th, Perugia, Volumnia, 2020, xviii+493pp
"We Irish": Writing and Identity from Berkley to Burke in, editor(s)Moyra Haslett , Irish Literature in Transition: Irish Literature 1700-80, Cambridge, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp49 - 67, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Irish Crime Fiction in, editor(s)Liam Harte , The Oxford Handbook to Modern Irish Fiction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp353 - 369, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, Anne Markey, Dominick Kelly"s `The Humble Petition" and the Poor Scholar: an English poem in Gaelic metre, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 35, 2020, p84 - 96
Maria Edgeworth and the Culture of Improvement in, editor(s)F. Fantaccini and R. Leproni , "Still Blundering into Sense". Maria Edgeworth, her context, her legacy, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2019, pp29 - 46, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Dominick Kelly , Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2019, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'"Alas, Poor YORICK!": The Death and Life of Laurence Sterne' in, editor(s)Adam Green , Public Domain Review Selected Essays: Volume VI, Manchester, PDR Press, 2019, pp90 - 100, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Damn these printers By heaven, I'll cut Hoey's throat': The History of Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and Miss Sarah Stapleton (1770), a Catholic novel in eighteenth-century Ireland , Irish University Review, 2018, p250 - 264
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Dominick Kelly's "Battle of the Chaunters" sequence from "Fugitive Pieces" (1770)', Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 33, 2018, p135 - 186
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Novels, Chapbooks, Folklore: the several lives of William Chaigneau's Jack Connor, now Conyers; or, John Connor, alias Jack the Batchelor, the Famous Irish Bucker', Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 31, 2016, p62-86
Gian Gaspare Napolitano, Literary Encyclopedia, Literary Encyclopedia, 2015, [Ian Campbell Ross]
José Rizal, "Noli me tangere", litencyc.com.elib.tcd.ie/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35659, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2015, [Ian Campbell Ross]
José Rizal, Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopedia, 2015, [Ian Campbell Ross]
José Rizal, "El Filibusterismo", Robert Clark, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2015, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, William Meier, 'Introduction', Éire-Ireland. Special Number: Crime in Ireland since 1921, 2014, p7 - 21
William Chaigneau, Literary Encyclopedia, 2014, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Éire-Ireland. Special Number: Crime in Ireland since 1921, (2014), 207p, William Meier and Ian Campbell Ross, [eds.]
'The History of Jack Connor', Literary Encyclopedia, 2014, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross (ed.), William Chaigneau, The History of Jack Connor, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, 269pp
Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: a cultural guide, 3rd rev. ed., Oxford, Signal Books, 2013, xviii + 503 pp + 48 pp ill.pp
Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: a cultural guide, Perugia, Volumnia, 2012, 502pp + 48 pp of illustrationspp
Ian Campbell Ross, Carlo Denina, "Mylady Mackenzie", and the Enlightenment Construction of Scottish and Irish Literature, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 6, (1), 2012, p1 - 23
Ian Campbell Ross, Introduction: Irish Fiction 1660-1830, Irish University Review, 41, (1), 2011, pxv - xvii
Ian Campbell Ross and Aileen Douglas (eds), Elizabeth Sheridan, The Triumph of Prudence over Passion, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2011, 200pp
'Introduction' in, editor(s)Declan Burke , Down these Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century, Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011, pp14 - 35, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Mapping Ireland in Early Fiction', Irish University Review, 41, (1), 2011, p1 - 20
Ian Campbell Ross and David Berman, George Berkeley and the authorship of 'The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca', Irish University Review, 41, (1), 2011, p196 - 201
Irish University Review, 41, 1, (2011), xviii + 253p, Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas, Moyra Haslett, [eds.], Guest editors
Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas, & Anne Markey (eds), Sarah Butler, Irish Tales, Early Irish Fiction, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, 121pp
Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas, Moyra Haslett, Early Irish Fiction: a series of Irish novels, 1680 - 1820, Dublin, Four Courts, 2010
Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey (eds), Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess, Early Irish Fiction, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, 162pp
'Laurence Sterne' , James Maguire(ed), Dictionary of Irish Biography, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy & Cambridge University Press, 2009, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Histories, Lives and Sub-chantresses: Laurence Sterne's 1759 reading', The Shandean, 20, 2009, p9 - 22
'Laurence Sterne's life, milieu and literary career' in, editor(s)Thomas Keymer , Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp5 - 20, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. A new edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, 658pp
'Swift and the City' in, editor(s)Máire Kennedy , Reading Gulliver, Dublin, Dublin City Libraries, 2008, pp1 - 27, [Ian Campbell Ross ]
Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey, 'From Clonmel to Peru: Barbarism and Civility in Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess', Irish University Review, (38, 2), 2008, p179 - 202
'The Writing Master's Ruler: Straight Lines and Digressions in the Fiction of Laurence Sterne and Italo Calvino' in, editor(s)Roberto Bertoni , Twenty Years After. An 'Irish' Calvino?, Turin and Dublin, Trauben in association with Department of Italian, TCD, 2007, pp65 - 80, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Gian Gaspare Napolitano, translated, and with an essay by Ian Campbell Ross, and an essay by Trevor Royle, To War with the Black Watch, Edinburgh, Birlinn, 2007, vi + 183pp
Anne Markey and Ian Campbell Ross, 'Vertue Rewarded; or the Irish Princess: Clonmel in a seventeenth-century Irish novel, Tipperary Historical Journal, 2007, p45 - 54
Ian Campbell Ross , '"A very knowing American": the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Swift's Modest Proposal', Modern Language Quarterly, 68:4, 2007, p493 - 516
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, Aberdeen, AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies & Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, [Member of Editorial Advisory Board], 2007
Ian Campbell Ross , 'Ottomans, Incas, and Irish Literature: Reading Rycaut', Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 22, 2007, p11 - 27
'When Smelfungus met Yorick: Smollett and Sterne in the South of France, 1763' in, editor(s)O. M. Brack, Jr , New Essays on Tobias Smollett: in honour of Paul-Gabriel Boucé, Delaware, University of Delaware Press, 2007, pp74 - 93, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Anne Markey and Ian Campbell Ross, 'Vertue Rewarded; or the Irish Princess: Clonmel in a seventeenth-century Irish novel', Tipperary Historical Journal, 2007, p45 - 54
The Literary Encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd, [Editor for Irish Literature in English], 2006
'Tobias Smollett' in, editor(s)Ian Brown (General Editor) et al. , Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, 3 vols, 2, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp163 - 68, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'Prose in English 1690-1800: From the Williamite Wars to the Act of Union' in, editor(s)Philip O'Leary and Margaret Kelleher , Cambridge History of Irish Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 232 - 281, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Was Berkeley a Jacobite? Passive Obedience Revisited', Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 20, 2005, p17 - 30
'Irish Fiction before the Union' in, Jacqueline Belanger (ed.) , The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Facts and Fictions, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2005, 34 - 51, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, Yorick and Smelfungus: two martyrs on the threshold of the gods, The Shandean, 16, 2005, p108 - 113
'Frances Sheridan (1724-1766)', [25365], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 50, Oxford, Clarendon, 2004, pp295 - 296, [Ian Campbell Ross ]
Tobias Smollett, 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker', Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Tobias Smollett, , 'The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle', Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Thomas Amory (1690/1-1788)', [452], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1, Oxford, Clarendon, 2004, pp968 - 969, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'Richard Griffith (d. 1788), [11608], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23, Oxford, Clarendon, 2004, pp974 - 975, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'Tobias Smollett', 'The Adventures of Roderick Random' , Robert Clark, The Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Tobias Smollett, 'The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves', Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'William Chaigneau (1709-1791), [5018], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 10, Oxford, Clarendon, 2004, pp51 - [Ian Campbell Ross]
Tobias Smollett, 'The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom', Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2004, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), Robert Clark, Literary Encyclopaedia, 2003, [Ian Campbell Ross ]
'Thomas Amory', 'William Chaigneau', 'The Drapier's Letters', 'Life of John Buncle, Esq.', 'A Modest Proposal', 'Frances Sheridan', 'Laurence Sterne' , Brian Lalor, Encyclopedia of Ireland , Dublin and New Haven, Gill and Macmillan and Yale University Press, 2003, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Did Sterne read Tom Jones?' , The Shandean, 13, 2002, p109 - 111
Ian Campbell Ross, '"A Collective Enterprise'?: Sterne and the Biographer', The Shandean, 13, 2002, p9 - 27
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Sterne, Swift, Orrery and the "Rabelaisian Fragment"', Notes & Queries, (December), 2002, p421 - 425
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Entre la joie et la tristesse: Laurence Sterne à Montpellier 1763-4', Etudes Héraultaises, (31-33), 2001, p125 - 128
Ian Campbell Ross, Laurence Sterne: A Life, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2001, 512pp
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Gulliver's Travels into France: Swift and the Abbé Desfontaines', Translation Ireland, 13, (4), 1999, p15 - 16
'Bullfighting' and 20 related entries, Eamonn Rodgers, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture, London, Routledge, 1999, pp65 - 67, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'Singularity and the Syllabus: The Teaching of Swift in Trinity College, Dublin' in, editor(s)Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Ian Campbell Ross , Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp167 - 179, [Aileen Douglas and Ian Campbell Ross]
'Introduction: Locating Swift' in, editor(s)Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Ian Campbell Ross , Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift , Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, pp9 - 27, [Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly and Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas, Patrick Kelly, Locating Swift: Essays from Dublin on the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998, 208pp
Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: A Cultural History, revised edition, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1996, xviii + 430 pp
[Various], Robert Welch, Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 10, (1995), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, Andrew Carpenter, [eds.]
Ian Campbell Ross, Umbria: A Cultural History, London, Viking, 1995, 448pp
Ian Campbell Ross, '"One of the Principal Nations in Europe": The Representation of Ireland in Sarah Butler's Irish Tales', Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 7, (1), 1994, p1 - 16
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 9, (1994), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]
'The Scriblerians and Swift in Ireland' in, editor(s)Hermann J. Real and Richard H. Rodino , Reading Swift: The Proceedings of the Second Münster Swift Symposium, Munich, Wilhelm Fink, 1993, pp81 - 89, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 8, (1993), Ian Campbell Ross, [eds.]
'" A Kind of National Pride": Imagining a Nation in Eighteenth-Century Irish Fiction' in, editor(s)Federico Eguiluz and others (eds.) , XIV Congreso de AEDEAN: Associación Española de Estudios Anglonorteamericanos, Bilbao, Servicio Editorial Universidad del País Vasco/Argitarapen Zerbitzua Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, , 1992, pp133 - 146, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'"No horse is a rational being": Swift, Provost Marsh and Gulliver's Travels in, editor(s)David Scott , Treasures of the Mind, London, Sotheby's, 1992, pp109 - 117, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 7, (1992), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 6, (1991), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]
'Fiction to 1800' in, editor(s)Seamus Deane, with Andrew Carpenter and Jonathan Williams , Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Derry, Field Day, 1991, pp1, 682 - 1, 759, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 5, (1990), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 4, (1989), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Rewriting Irish Literary History: the Case of the Irish Novel', Études Anglaises, XXXIX, (4), 1989, p385 - 399
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Trim (-tram), like master, like man: servant and sexton in Sterne'sTristram Shandy and A Political Romance', Notes and Queries, 36, (1), 1989, p62 - 65
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 3, (1988), Ian Campbell Ross, Alan Harrison, [eds.]
Ian Campbell Ross, 'New puzzles over the editing of Tristram Shandy', Review, 9, 1987, p329 - 351
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, , 2, (1987), Ian Campbell Ross, Andrew Carpenter, Alan Harrison, [eds.]
'Midwifery' in, editor(s)Ian Campbell Ross , Public Virtue, Public Love: The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, the Rotunda, Dublin, O'Brien, 1986, pp125 - 164, [Ian Campbell Ross]
'The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital' in, editor(s)Ian Campbell Ross , Public Virtue, Public Love: The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, the Rotunda, Dublin, O'Brien, 1986, pp9 - 52, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr , 1 - (1986), Ian Campbell Ross et als, [Member of Editorial Board], 1986-present
Ian Campbell Ross (ed), Public Virtue, Public Love: The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-In Hospital, the Rotunda, Dublin, O'Brien, 1986, 176pp
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 1, (1986), Ian Campbell Ross, Andrew Carpenter, Alan Harrison, [eds.]
Ian Campbell Ross, '"More to avoid the expense than the shame": infanticide in the Modest Proposer's Ireland', Swift Studies, 1, 1986, p75 - 76
Ian Campbell Ross, Henry James, The Europeans, London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1985, 187pp
Ian Campbell Ross, Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick, 'David Garrick or Spranger Barry? a dramatic substitution in Irish editions of Smollett's Sir Launcelot Greaves', Long Room, 30, 1985, p6 - 10
Ian Campbell Ross, '"If we believe report": new biographies of Jonathan Swift', Hermathena, CXXXVII, 1984, p34 - 49
Hermathena, (1984), J. Bartlett et als, [Member of Editorial Board], 1984-90
'Prose and Drama before 1820' and 25 associated entries , Brian de Breffny, Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia, London, Thames and Hudson, 1983, pp133 - 136, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, London and New York, Clarendon and Oxford University Press, 1983, 612pp
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Thomas Amory, John Buncle, and the Origins of Irish Fiction', Éire-Ireland, XVIII, (3), 1983, p71 - 85
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Tobias Smollett: gentleman by birth, education, and professsion', British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 5, (2), 1982, p179 - 190
Ian Campbell Ross, 'An Irish Picaresque Novel: William Chaigneau's The History of Jack Connor', Studies, LXXI, (283), 1982, p270 - 279
'"With dignity and importance," Peregrine Pickle as Country Gentleman,' in, editor(s)Alan Bold , Tobias Smollett: Author of the First Distinction, London and Totowa, N. J., Vision Press and Barnes and Noble, 1982, pp148 - 169, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, '"Everyone to cultivate his own garden": John Evelyn, Voltaire and Candide' , Notes and Queries, 28, (3), 1981, p234 - 237
Ian Campbell Ross, 'The Triumph of Prudence over Passion: Nationalism and Feminism in an Eighteenth-Century Irish Novel', Irish University Review, 10, (2), 1980, p232 - 240
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Antedatings and an addition to O.E.D.', Notes and Queries, 27, (1), 1980, p26 - 27
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Cagancho and Villalta: an unnoted error in English editions of Death in the Afternoon' , The Library, Sixth Series, 1, (3), 1979, p284 - 285
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Language, Structure, and Vision in Smollett's Roderick Random' , Études Anglaises, XXXI, (1), 1978, p52 - 63
Ian Campbell Ross, . 'Smollett and the Jew Bill of 1753', American Notes and Queries, XVI, (4), 1977, p54 - 55
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Laurence Sterne, 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' in, editor(s)April London (ed.) , Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, [Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, The 'poor scholar' in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century writing, History Ireland, 29, (3), 2021, p30 - 33
Ian Campbell Ross, "Alas, Poor YORICK!": The Death and Life of Laurence Sterne, The Public Domain Review, 2018
'Irish Crime Fiction: Select Reading 1829-2011' in, Down these Green Streets, Dublin, Liberties Press, 2011, pp362 - 368, [Shane Mawe and Ian Campbell Ross]
Ian Campbell Ross, 'Lunacies', London Review of Books, 25, (20), 2003, p28 - 29
Ian Campbell Ross, David Dickson, Seán Duffy, Cathal Ó Háinle (eds), Ireland and Scotland: Nation, Region, Identity. A record of the Interdisciplinary conference held in Trinity College, Dublin and the Irish Film Centre 29-30 September 2000, Dublin, The Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, TCD, for the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, 2001, 105pp
Ian Campbell Ross, Jonathan Swift: 1667-1745. An Address delivered in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin on 19 October 1995, the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Jonathan Swift, Dublin, St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1995
Ian Campbell Ross and Roberto Bertoni, 'Invito ad una lettura di Italo Calvino', Italia Stampa, III, 1986, p19-
Ian Campbell Ross, Swift's Ireland, Dublin, Eason, 1983
Ian Campbell Ross, '"Le Gascon et le Patois": une lettre de Swift en français', Contacts, 20, 1981, p23 - 25
Research Expertise
Description
Professor Ross has written widely on Irish literature in English, with particular emphasis on the period 1690-1800. A co-founder of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, he also co-founded the journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, which he co-edited for 10 years. A former chair of the international steering committee of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, he is now co-director of the Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College, Dublin and a co-director of HEA-funded research projects that have brought over 1,500,000 into research in the arts and humanities (1999-2005). A contributor to the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991), the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (1996) and the Cambridge History of Irish Literature (2006), he has also contributed to many standard reference works, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) and the Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009). His work on travel writing includes Umbria: a cultural history (Viking, 1995; 4th revised ed. Volumnia, 2020). He is co-General Editor of 'Early irish Fiction, c. 1680-c.1820' (Dublin: Four Courts Press), a series of critical editions of novels, for which he has edited or co-edited [Anon], Vertue Rewarded; or, the Irish Princess (2010), Sarah Butler, Irish Tales (2010), Elizabeth Sheridan, The Triumph of Prudence over Passion (2011), and William Chaigneau, The History of Jack Connor (2013).Projects
- Title
- Early Irish Fiction 1680-1820
- Summary
- A series of critical editions of early Irish prose fiction, to be published by Four Courts Press. The first three titles, to appear in 2009 and 2010, are 'Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess', ed. Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey; Sarah Butler, 'Irish Tales', ed. Ian Campbell Ross and Aileen Douglas, and Thomas Amory, 'Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain', ed. Moyra Haslett.
- Funding Agency
- IRCHSS
- Date From
- 2008
- Date To
- 2010
- Title
- Irish-Scottish projects in Arts and Humanities
- Summary
- An interdisciplinary project involving comparative research in English and Irish language and literature and medieval and modern Irish history
- Funding Agency
- HEA
- Date From
- 2002
- Date To
- 2005
Recognition
Representations
Visiting Professor, Ateneo de Manila University
Member, Advisory Board, IRCHSS Research Project, An Electronic Edition to the Loebers' Guide to Irish Fiction
Membro Aggregato, Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale pr gli Studi Irlandesi Scozzesi (CRISIS), Università degli Studi, Roma Tre.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Irish University Review
Visiting Professor, Università degli Studi, Roma Tre
Convenor, Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland: http://www.eclrni.com/
Chair of the inter-university steering committee of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative
Member of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative steering committee
Chairman, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag
Secretary, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag
Awards and Honours
Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia
F.T.C.D.
Memberships
Secretary of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éireann san Ochtú Céad Déag
Chair of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éireann san Ochtú Céad Déag
Co-founder of journal, Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, and co-editor
Co-founder of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Éireann san Ochtú Céad Déag
Member of editorial board, Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr
Member of the Editorial Committee, Literary Encyclopedia
Founder and member of the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland [ECLRNI] (http://www.eclrni.com)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Irish University Review
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies