Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society
Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag
Annual Conference
In Association with Cumann Merriman
~ Brian Merriman in European Context ~
University of Limerick, 9-12 June 2005
The Conference will include a Round Table on the Huguenots and
Education in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries*
The Huguenots: Exile, Education and Integration
Les Huguenots: Exil, Éducation et Intégration
*Organisée avec le soutien de l'UMR 5037 Institut d'Histoire de la Pensée classique
(dir. Antony McKenna)
Programme
(Subject to minor changes)
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Thursday 9 June 2005
4.00-7.00
Registration
7.00-7.30
Welcome Address:
Prof Roger Downer, President, University of Limerick
Prof Graham Gargett (Ulster), President, Eighteenth Century
Ireland Society
7.30-8.30
Plenary Lecture:
Prof Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam),
Title: ‘Court’
8.30-9.00
Reception
Friday 10 June 2005
9.30-10.30 Parallel Sessions
Parallel Session A: History
Dr Michael Brown (TCD), ‘Antiquity and manners: languages of enlightenment in
late eighteenth-century Ireland.’
Dr Vincent Morley (UCD), ‘Popular historical consciousness in 18th-century Ireland’.
10.30-11.00
Coffee
11.00-12.30
Parallel Sessions
Parallel Session A: Sociability and Enlightenment
Dr Scott Breuniger (South Dakota), ‘Science, religion, and sociability in early
eighteenth-century Irish thought’.
Dr Tadgh O’Sullivan (Oxford), ‘An Irish counter-enlightenment?: the 1780s and
1790s’.
Carol Baraniuk (Stranmillis Univ. College, Belfast), ‘Radical Voices/Global Views:
Evidence of a North of Ireland Enlightenment in the Lives and Works of James Orr
and James Campbell’.
Parallel Session B: Merriman, Poetry & Music
Dr Maeve O’Brien (Maynooth), ‘“The witching tale”: Mary Tighe’s Psyche’.
Sandra Joyce (UL), Eighteenth-century music / Turlough O’Carolan
Lorna Maloney (UL), ‘Brian Merriman in local context’.
12.30-1.30
Lunch
1.30-2.30
Parallel Sessions
Parallel Session A: Libraries
Ken Bergin (UL), ‘Cashel Diocesan Library: The legacy of Archbishops William
King and Theophilus Bolton’.
Dr Bill McCormick (Ind.), ‘The Edward Worth Library’.
Parallel Session B: Merriman agus Filíocht
Dr Maire Ní Annrachain (NUI, Maynooth), ‘Cé chomh meafarach is atá “Cúirt an
Mhéan Oíche”?’
Dr Seosamh MacMurí (UL), ‘Tír na hóige: luibh in aghaidh Ifreann an 18ú aois?’.
2.30-3.00
Coffee
3.00-4.00
Special Presentation at the Irish World Music Centre by Prof
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (UL) & Nicholas Carolan (Irish Traditional
Music Archive), ‘The First Collection of Irish Music: The Most
Celebrated Irish Tunes, 1724’
4.00-
Afternoon Tour to Feakle, County Clare, an area strongly associated
with Brian Merriman. Commentary by Prof Kevin Whelan (University
of Notre Dame). Tour will include Dinner.
Saturday 11 June 2005
9.30-11.00
Parallel Sessions (including Huguenot Roundtable I)
Parallel Session A: Eighteenth Century Limerick
Dr Eamon O’Flaherty (UCD), Spatial and cultural change in an urban society:
Limerick, 1700-1850’.
Jennifer Moore (UL), ‘John Ferrar and his histories: a comparison of the History of
the city of Limerick editions 1767 and 1787’.
Dr Matt Potter (Limerick City Council), ‘A handsome vulgar forward Irishman:
Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort’.
Parallel Session B: Society & Demography
Dr Padraig Lenihan (UL), ‘The Elphin Census 1749: Social Class’.
Leonard Durac (UL), ‘The Dublin Metropolitan Police of 1786’.
Dr Elizabeth Taylor-Fitzsimon (All Hallows), ‘“Dear Cousin”: Eighteenth Century
Huguenot networks between Ireland and South Carolina’
Parallel Session C: Huguenot Roundtable I
Dr Susanne Lachenicht (NUI, Galway) ‘French Proselytes and French education in
18th century London’
Dr Sami Savonius (Clare Hall Cambridge), ‘The role of Huguenot tutors in John
Locke's programme of social reform’
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-12.30
Plenary Lecture:
Dr Liam P. Ó Murchu (UCC)
Title: ‘Merriman: Poet, Poem and Poem-Book’
11.30-12.30 Huguenot Roundtable II
Dr Viviane Rosen-Prest (Paris), ‘Les Ecoles huguenotes en Prusse’.
Dr Fiammetta Palladini (Conseil National de la Recherche, Roma-Berlin), ‘Les
premières années du Collège français de Berlin (1689-1710): rapports avec le
Consistoire, organisation, plan d´études’.
12.30-1.30
Lunch
1.30-3.00
Parallel Sessions (including Huguenot Roundtable III)
Parallel Session A: Law and Society
John Bergin (QUB), ‘Protestant children and popish parents: religion, inheritance and
the legislature in the reigns of William III and of Anne’.
Dr Neal Garnham (Ulster), ‘Ireland’s Riot Acts 1715-1787’.
Dr Colum Kenny (DCU), ‘Nomulus Mutari: King’s Inns survives the Eighteenth
Century’
Parallel Session B: Identities and Ideas: Goldsmith, Burke & Castlereagh
Prof Graham Gargett (Ulster), ‘Goldsmith and religion’.
Dr Joseph Pappin (South Carolina), ‘Edmund Burke’s Moral Sense’
Joanne Stone (Ind.), ‘Lord Pat, the Irishman in London’.
Parallel Session C: Huguenot Roundtable III
Dr Máire Kennedy (Gilbert Library, Dublin), ‘French language textbooks: the
contribution of Huguenot teachers’.
Dr Stephen Massil (Library, Sir John Soane's Museum London), ‘Huguenot
Librarians in Ireland’.
3.00 - 3.30
Coffee
3.30 – 5.00
Parallel Sessions (including Huguenot Roundtable IV)
Parallel Session A: Education
Dr Liam Chambers (MIC), ‘John Bourke and the education of Irish Catholics in early
eighteenth century Europe’.
Dr Tony Lyons (MIC), ‘Popular education in the county of Limerick’.
Dr Seán Patrick Donlan (UL), ‘“The places most fit for this purpose”: Francis
Stoughton Sullivan and legal study at the University of Dublin’.
Parallel Session B: Print & Poetry
Michael O’Connor (QUB), ‘James Magee (1707-97), Belfast printer’.
Dr Katherine O’Donnell (UCD), ‘Edmund Burke, Cúirteanna Éigse and literary
clubs’.
Dr Michael Griffin (UL), ‘From Clare to there: the cult of Thomas Dermody’.
Parallel Session C: Huguenot Roundtable IV
Dr Jane McKee (Ulster), ‘From Private Tutor to School Patron: the case of Pierre
Drelincourt’.
Prof Geraldine Sheridan (UL), ‘The Huguenot Schools of Portarlington: an
intercultural microcosm in 18th century Ireland’.
5.00-6.00
Annual General Meeting
7.00
Reception & Launch of Special Issue of Éire–Ireland edited by Dr
Michael Griffin.
8.00
Conference BBQ in The Stables (UL)
Sunday 12 June 2005
11.00-1.00
Walking Tour of Georgian Limerick, led by Mr Liam Irwin (MIC)
For Further Information Please Contact:
Dr Liam Chambers
Department of History
Mary Immaculate College
University of Limerick
South Circular Road
Limerick
E-Mail: Liam.Chambers@mic.ul.ie
Dr Sean Patrick Donlan
School of Law
University of Limerick
E-Mail: Sean.Donlan@ul.ie
Professor Geraldine Sheridan
Department of Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Limerick
E-Mail: Geraldine.Sheridan@ul.ie