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| Titre : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland vol. 25 - 2010 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/01/2010 |
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Susan MULLANEY, Auteur
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Prior to 1791, there was no regulation of the practice of medicine outside of the cities and large towns in the British Isles. Physicians, surgeons and apothecaries plied their trades in rural area...
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Anne MARKEY, Auteur
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This essay explores how Mary Wollstonecraft's employment in Ireland as governess in the Kingsborough family led to the development of a strain of children's literature which queried and undermined ...
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Fintan CULLEN, Auteur
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The subject of this essay is the 1763 Joshua Reynolds portrait of the young Irish-American lawyer, Charles Carroll of Maryland (1737-1832) and it will discuss how Carroll's self-fashioning, through...
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Martyn J. POWELL, Auteur
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Ireland's gentry and middling sorts were very uneasy bedfellows in the burgeoning consumer society of the eighteenth century. New ways of earning wealth could threaten gentry and aristocratic domin...
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Michael BROWN, Auteur
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The Art of Restoring (1714) does more than mark the final rupture in the uneasy alliance of Robert Harley and his pen-for-hire, John Toland. It promulgates the notion of a Catholic-French conspirac...
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Andrew CARPENTER, Auteur
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One evening in the 1780s, a group of sophisticated young Dubliners, out for an evening walk near the city, encountered an itinerant ballad-maker, a rare example of the dying culture of traditional ...
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Peter MCQUILLAN, Auteur
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Several poems of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries juxtapose the ideas of solitude and/or loneliness (uaigneas) on the one hand and bliss or delight (aoibhneas) on the other. The aisling esp...
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Patrick KELLY, Auteur
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Though a National Bank issuing paper money was the core of Berkeley's proposal for reforming the Irish economy, the details of his bank scheme have received little attention. Analysis of banking ve...
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James WARD, Auteur
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This article discusses Jonathan Swift's appropriation of anti-Catholic rhetoric in The Drapier's Letters. The discussion draws both on pamphlets which preceded Swift's intervention in the Wood's ha...
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Karen SONNELITTER, Auteur
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The focus here is the educational charity movement in Ireland from its early years after the Glorious Revolution through the founding of the Charter School movement looked at through charity sermon...
