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| Titre : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland vol. 29 - 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/01/2014 |
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Moyra HASLETT, Auteur
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Swift often noted his aversion to coffee-house conversation and to tavern talk, to gossip and company, and to being buried in Dublin in the years of his Deanship. Yet the popular myth of a morose, unsociable Swift belies both his engagement with[...]
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Jill Marie BRADBURY, Auteur
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The language of 'interest' was a key feature in 1720-21 debates about an Irish national bank, as it was in the wider British and trans-Atlantic context. In the pamphlet literature, multiple meanings of 'interest' were leveraged to analyze the im[...]
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Gordon REES, Auteur
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This article uses the career of Sir Richard Cox, a prolific pamphleteer and MP for the Co. Cork borough of Clonarkility, to provide a case study of mid-eighteenth-century Irish patriotism. It analyses Cox's pamphlets, his involvement in politica[...]
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John MCALEER, Auteur
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When Britain captured the Cape of Good Hope at the end of the eighteenth century, it was already part of a sophisticated maritime system and commercial interests. But the first decades of British rule in Southern Africa facilitated the developme[...]
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Liam LENIHAN, Auteur
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This article explores the cultural strategies James Barry (1741-1806) deployed in his writings on art throughout his artistic career. In commercial terms, Barry was a marginal figure who worked in an artistic genre, history paintings, in aesthet[...]
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Andrew J. GARAVEL, Auteur
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The Amazoniad (1806), a mock-heroic poem in five cantos written in the style of Alexander Pope's verse satires, lampoons Dublin society in the aftermath of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. In it John Wilson Croker, regarded as one[...]