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Centre Culturel Irlandaiscontact
Titre : | Eighteenth-Century Ireland Vol 37 - 2022 |
Type de document : | Bulletin |
Paru le : | 25/10/2022 |
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Elizabethanne BORAN, Auteur
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This paper investigates the actors affecting hospital provision in early eighteenth-century Dublin by examining the early history of Dr Steevens' Hospital. It explores Richard Steeven's motivation...

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Luke MCINERNEY, Auteur
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This essay presents a literal translation of the poem, Donn na Duimhche by Clare seanchaidhe and poet, Aindrias Mac Cruitín. The text presented here is intended primarily to focus on the life and a...

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Vandra COSTELLO, Auteur
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From the mid-eighteenth century seaside resorts began to develop in Ireland and the practice of sea bathing was first popularised. The convergence of coastal development with contemporary medical t...

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Martin G. MOLONY, Auteur
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This article outlines the popularity – and financial success – of an eighteenth-century Dublin puppet theatre that threatened mainstream theatres of the time. Randall Stretch’s puppet theatre, in D...

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Dirk, F. PASSMANN, Auteur ;
J. Real HERMANN, Auteur
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This paper attempts to shed light on the satires against the notorious oculist John Taylor (1703–72) during his sojourn in Dublin in the spring of 1732. Taylor studied at London’s St Thomas’s Hospi...

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Maura VALENTI, Auteur
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This article looks at the history of music at the Irish continental colleges in the eighteenth century, demonstrating that musical training was often a part – or was at least intended to be a part ...

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W. A. HART, Auteur
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Rachael Baptist, a black woman, was a celebrated singer in the pleasure gardens of Dublin in the 1750s. Subsequently, between 1757 and 1767, she claimed to have ‘performed in London, Bath, and the ...

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Lucy COGAN, Auteur
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Dorothea Du Bois’s (1728–74) authorial career was defined by her efforts to recover what she believed was her rightful position in society both in the eyes of the public and under the law. When she...