{"title":"Women under the Law in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Literary and Legal Campaign of Dorothea Du Bois","authors":"L. Cogan","doi":"10.3828/eci.2022.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2022.10","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Dorothea 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 was a child, her father, the 6th Earl of Anglesey, abandoned her mother and declared that their marriage had been bigamous, rendering Du Bois illegitimate. Du Bois’s contrasting representations of her fraught family history in her writings, fictional and non-fictional, reflect her dynamic response to a series of legal disputes of the 1760s and 1770s regarding the earl’s true heir. Du Bois appeals to the law as an ideal moral arbiter, yet she reveals the system in Ireland to be animated by self-interested men for whom women’s suffering was irrelevant. Thus, while Du Bois’s motivation in writing was deeply personal, her works illuminate aspects of women’s experience neither her society nor the law would acknowledge.","PeriodicalId":217296,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Volume 37, Issue 1","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128346168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portable Organs and Stencilled Plainchant: Music at Irish Continental Colleges in the Eighteenth Century","authors":"M. Valenti","doi":"10.3828/eci.2022.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2022.8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This 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 - of the education offered by these institutions to students preparing for the priesthood and, in many cases, a return to Ireland and the Catholic mission there. Particularly rich examples of musical life can be found in the histories of the Irish Franciscan colleges of St Anthony’s, Louvain and San Isidoro, Rome, and the Irish Dominican colleges of Holy Cross, Louvain and San Clemente, Rome. They show that music has its place in the history of the Irish continental colleges and, indeed, in the history of Irish Catholicism in the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":217296,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Volume 37, Issue 1","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121212734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Donn na Duimhche: ‘Hail, Donn of the Sandhills!’ Aindrias Mac Cruitín’s Celebrated Poem: Background, Context, and Literal Translation","authors":"Luke McInerney","doi":"10.3828/eci.2022.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2022.4","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This 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 activity of Mac Cruitín and his historical and literary milieu in mid-eighteenth-century Clare. The discussion is not intended to provide a detailed linguistic analysis or editorial treatment of the original text in Irish. Rather, by focusing on the poet and his world, as well as some of the themes addressed in his poem, new light is cast on the classical Gaelic tradition of north Munster at a time when that scholarly tradition was becoming obsolete.","PeriodicalId":217296,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Volume 37, Issue 1","volume":"47 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114050633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Building of Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin, 1710-33","authors":"E. Boran","doi":"10.3828/eci.2022.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2022.3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper investigates the factors affecting hospital provision in early eighteenth-century Dublin by examining the early history of Dr Steevens’ Hospital. It explores Richard Steevens’s motivations for endowing a hospital and the friendship networks reflected in his will and that of the hospital trust, the latter initially set up in 1717 and expanded over the decades. In particular it focuses on the role of his sister Grizel Steevens in bringing the hospital into being.\u0000By using subscription and benefaction lists it plots the growth in support for the hospital until its eventual opening in July 1733. At the same time, it goes beyond a focus on the wealthy patrons of the hospital to investigate the people who actually worked on the building site in the fateful year 1720 - the year of the laying of the foundation stone and the year of the stock market crash which hampered fundraising efforts.","PeriodicalId":217296,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Volume 37, Issue 1","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121795756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lure of the Sea in Georgian Ireland","authors":"Vandra Costello","doi":"10.3828/eci.2022.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2022.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000From 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 theories and a cultural and philosophical interest may not be coincidental. This article uses a range of sources to suggest that the aristocratic appreciation of seascapes may be rooted in a wider eighteenth-century philosophical discussion on the nature of taste and all its forms. The sublime aesthetic articulated by Edmund Burke dovetailed serendipitously with the concurrent notions of the healthiness and therapeutic benefits of the sea and sea air which led the aristocracy, as social leaders, to build or reorientate houses to give views of, and access to, the sea. This article traces the development of an aristocratic interest in the sea and sea bathing and its influence on coastal landscapes and the creation of seaside resorts in Ireland.","PeriodicalId":217296,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Volume 37, Issue 1","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131251610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Taylor: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Famous Oculist and Quack","authors":"D. Passmann, H. J. Real","doi":"10.3828/eci.2022.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2022.7","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This 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 Hospital under the pioneering British surgeon William Cheselden. He operated on celebrities all over Europe, travelling in a coach decorated with the motto: ‘Qui dat videre dat vivere (He who gives sight, gives life)’, and marketing himself unabashedly with boisterous shows and expositions of his rare skills as a surgeon. In 1736, Taylor was appointed royal eye surgeon to George II. In March 1750, he operated on Bach’s cataracts in Leipzig, which led to Bach’s becoming perfectly blind, and in August 1758 on Handel, which apparently occasioned the composer’s death in April 1759. During his second visit to Ireland in March and April of 1732, Taylor was attacked in Faulkner’s Dublin Journal as ‘a person of unparallel’d impudence, undeniable assurance, an asserter of scandalous falsehoods, a mountebank, and a quack, who imposes on the public and extorts money from the poor’. At the same time, Taylor became the subject of several satirical attacks and the victim of an April Fool’s joke, most probably organised by Trinity College students, among them, the juvenile William Dunkin, friend and protégé of Jonathan Swift. The paper examines Taylor’s life and literary (self-)representation; it also tries to identify the authors behind the hilarious practical jokes on the mountebank.","PeriodicalId":217296,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Volume 37, Issue 1","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134123030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Oh, This Is More of Stretch’s Show’: Randal Stretch and Puppet Theatre in Eighteenth-Century Ireland","authors":"Martin G. Molony","doi":"10.3828/eci.2022.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2022.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This 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 Dublin’s Capel Street, became the centrepiece for satirical and political commentary of the day. Stretch’s theatre caught the attention of Dean Swift and his circle and is commemorated in satirical verse of the period. For decades, Dubliners used the phrase ‘This is more of Stretch’s Show’ to refer to anything outlandish or incredible. The article underlines the power of the puppet theatre as a satirical device and the extent to which it can rival mainstream theatre.","PeriodicalId":217296,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Volume 37, Issue 1","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124649385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rachael Baptist: The Career of a Black Singer in Ireland and England, 1750-73","authors":"W. A. Hart","doi":"10.3828/eci.2022.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2022.9","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Rachael 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 other principal parts of England, with universal applause’. Some of these English concerts can be documented from contemporary newspapers; but there is no definite record of her having performed in Bath or London. However there are a number of references to an unnamed black woman singer associated with Samuel Foote, the proprietor of the Haymarket Theatre in London in the 1760s, who was probably Rachael Baptist. She returned to Ireland in the autumn of 1767 and over the following winters gave a series of concerts in Irish provincial towns. Her career shows that a black woman could enjoy celebrity as a singer at the height of the slave trade and her colour not preclude the recognition of her talents.","PeriodicalId":217296,"journal":{"name":"Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Volume 37, Issue 1","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130710234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}