Postgraduate Bursary Recipients Announced

This year, due to the kind benefaction of Marsh’s Library, Dublin and the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies at Trinity College Dublin, we’ve had the opportunity to offer several postgraduate bursaries for postgrads speaking at the upcoming conference. These bursaries will go towards registration and accommodation costs for the successful applicants, hopefully making it much easier – financially at least – for them to participate and enjoy all the great papers, lectures and activities planned for this year’s conference. Given the large number of very strong applications for the bursaries this year, the decision was an extremely difficult one to make. Ultimately, however, bursaries were awarded to the following postgraduate students:

Hélène Daviot (Université de Rouen), who will be delivering a paper titled ‘Loyalism and Parliamentary Union: The Emergence of a Transnational Identity’;

Macdara Dwyer (University College London), who will be delivering a paper titled  ’‘The most celebrated antiquarian of the present or any age’: Newton’s Reputation and an Irish Antiquarian Dispute’;

Timothy Mc Inerney (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), who will be delivering a paper titled ‘Irish Nobility and Ideas of Humanity in Oliver Goldsmith’s History of the Earth (1774)’.

Congratulations to the bursary recipients, and thanks again to everyone who took the time and effort to apply!

Pre-register Now for Professor James Chandler’s Lecture

A while back, I posted about an exciting plenary lecture to be given at this year’s ECIS conference by Professor James Chandler (University of Chicago). The lecture is titled ‘Maria Edgeworth, Edmund Burke and the First Irish Ulysses’, and it’s being hosted by the Royal Irish Academy as part of its Academy Discourses series. The lectures in this series are open to the public and tend to attract very large audiences, so pre-registration is essential to avoid disappointment. This can be done, free of charge, here. Do take a moment to register if you’re planning to attend the lecture, or else you might be stuck standing or, worse, turned away!

Conference Poster Ready

With just over a month and a half until this year’s ECIS conference, here’s a poster for circulating to colleagues, putting up on your door, and pasting all over your workplace!

 

Don’t Forget: Applications for Postgraduate Bursaries due Today

Just a brief reminder to all postgraduate students planning to attend and deliver papers at this year’s ECIS conference: applications for postgraduate bursaries to be used towards registration and accommodation costs are due TODAY. For those who have not already applied, please email your name, institutional affiliation, a short description of your research, and a brief statement of how attendance at this conference will further your research goals to the conference organizer (cmorin AT tcd DOT ie), using the subject line ‘ECIS Postgraduate Bursary’.

 

 

 

Registration for the 2012 ECIS conference now open

Registration is now open for this year’s Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society conference, with a slightly reduced rate available until 1 June 2012. The registration form includes information about accommodation in Dublin as well as bursaries available to postgraduate students presenting at the conference. One word of caution: this year’s conference coincides with a Westlife concert, so accommodation is already very scarce. Book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment! A provisional programme will be uploaded here in the next week or so.

Registration Form_ECIS_2012

Alan Harrison Memorial Lecture Confirmed

This year’s Alan Harrison Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Liam Mac Mathúna, head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore & Linguistics at UCD. Professor Mac Mathúna’s lecture is titled ‘Getting to Grips with Innovation and Genre Diversification in the Work of the Ó Neachtain Circle in Early Eighteenth-Century Dublin’.

Other preparations for the conference are progressing apace. Watch this space for registration details and a provisional programme!

Reminder: Paper Proposals Due 2 March

With all the disruption of Christmas, New Year, and a new term, I thought I might post a gentle reminder that paper proposals for this year’s Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference, to be held in Trinity College Dublin, 22-24 June, are due by 2 March. It’s shaping up to be a great couple of days, so be sure to get your proposals in to join in all the fun. Here’s the call for papers ….

Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers and/or 3-4 person panels (in English or Irish) on any aspect of eighteenth-century Ireland, including its history, literature, language, and culture. There is no specific conference theme, but proposals for papers and panels addressing the following topics will be particularly welcome:

• Eighteenth-century Dublin

With the 2012 conference based in the heart of Dublin city centre, papers concerning any facet of Georgian Dublin, including, but not limited to, history, literature, architecture, and urban planning, are invited.

• The Irish Parliament

To mark the 230^th anniversary of Irish legislative independence, papers addressing any aspect of the Irish parliament, its members, its activities, and its effect on Irish social, political, and cultural life are especially encouraged.

• Dublin City of Science

In July 2012, Dublin will host Europe’s largest science conference, Euroscience Open Forum; in conjunction, science-related events and exhibitions are planned across Ireland in the months preceding the conference. To join in this celebration of Irish scientific endeavour, papers are invited on any aspect of the practice of scientific experimentation, enterprise and research in the long eighteenth century.

• The History of Jack Connor and Early Irish Fiction

As 2012 is the 260^th anniversary of the publication of William Chaigneau’s only novel, The History of Jack Connor (1752), papers are invited on any aspect of the text and its relationship to the development of Irish and British fiction. More widely, papers considering other examples of early Irish fiction, their contribution to the rise of the novel in eighteenth-century Britain, and their exploration (or lack thereof) of Irish life, are also welcome.