Author: Francis Elrington BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dublin (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A History of the County Dublin: the People, Parishes and Antiquities from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Francis Elrington BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dublin (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A History of the County Dublin:
Author: Francis Elrington BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dublin (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A History of the County Dublin:
Author: Francie Erlington BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dublin (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A History of the County Dublin
Author: Francis Elrington BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dublin (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Imagining Ireland's Pasts
Author: Nicholas CannyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019253663X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative. It shows how conflicting interpretations broke frequently along denominational lines, but that authors were also influenced by ethnic, cultural, and political considerations, and by whether they were resident in Ireland or living in exile. Imagining Ireland's Past: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries details how authors extolled the merits of their progenitors, offered hope and guidance to the particular audience they addressed, and disputed opposing narratives. The author shows how competing scholars, whether contributing to vernacular histories or empirical studies, became transfixed by the traumatic events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they sought to explain either how stability had finally been achieved, or how the descendants of those who had been wronged might secure redress.
The Poems of Thomas Sheridan
Author: Thomas SheridanPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874134957
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"The reputation of Thomas Sheridan has probably suffered from the occasional ridicule of his longtime friend and collaborator Jonathan Swift. Nevertheless, Swift valued Sheridan's wit and company immensely, and the verse-warfares in which the two friends often indulged were not always won by Swift." "Sheridan was not only one of the most memorable Dubliners of the early eighteenth century. Convivial, charming, highspirited, and feckless, he was also a prominent schoolmaster (the best in Europe, according to Swift), cleric, translator, playwright, essayist, and a prolific writer of accomplished light verse. Called Tom Pun-Sibi, or Tom the Punster, because of his droll essay The Art of Punning, he poured forth a seemingly endless stream of punning satires, verse letters to his friends, and satirical observations on the Dublin of his day." "For all of his prolific output, only some of his Swift poems have remained in print, and they are in various editions of Swift's verse. This volume gathers together for the first time Sheridan's complete poetic works, including those published as broadsides or in contemporary journals and those contained in unpublished letters and manuscripts. Of particular interest for such a social poet is the inclusion of poems to and about Sheridan by his many friends and very vocal enemies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Fingal, 1603-60
Author: Maighréad Ní MhurchadhaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This tightly written study examines all aspects of Fingal (north Dublin) in a period that saw its transformation in every sphere - the beliefs, values and norms of the community, religion, marriage and the family, education, literature, the legal profession, work, crime, and leisure pursuits. The result is a fascinating case study of the social and cultural realities of early modern Ireland.
Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington
Author: Laetitia PilkingtonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820317199
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
This is the first scholarly edition of the Memoirs of Laetitia Van Lewen Pilkington (1709?-1750), a poet, ghostwriter, and protégée of Jonathan Swift and the playwright/stage manager Colley Cibber. Swift's first biographer by virtue of her lively portrayals of him, Pilkington remains the best chronicler of the great satirist's private life while he was at the height of his influence and creativity. Offering as well an account of Pilkington's own tumultuous and unconventional life, the Memoirs caused a scandal when they first appeared, owing to their details about her divorce and the many would-be Lotharios (most of them married) who subsequently pestered her with their attentions. Originally appearing in three volumes between 1748 and 1754, the Memoirs have been periodically reprinted and are often quoted by scholars in different disciplines. Until now, however, the work has not received serious editorial attention. In this edition, A. C. Elias Jr. has established for the first time a critical text based on the earliest and most definitive printings, which Pilkington and her son oversaw. For the first time there are explanatory notes that identify the many veiled or anonymous figures in the text and establish the reliability of each anecdote about them. Other new features include an index, a census of early editions, a full bibliography, and a chronology. This edition is produced in a two-volume format, the first comprising the actual Memoirs, and the second the commentary. Readers are at last in a position to understand exactly what Pilkington is saying in her Memoirs--and what she may be suppressing in the process. They can now approach Pilkington's Swift with confidence at each step, and appreciate her rendering of the many other real-life personages who populate her disarmingly breezy narrative: bishops, scientists, and statesmen; authors, artists, and printers; and assorted rogues, wits, bawds, and eccentrics. More than any other early-eighteenth-century woman writing in English, says Elias, Pilkington remains accessible to readers today. As a portrayal of Swift, as the recollections of a woman making her way in the male-dominated world of letters, as a source of Irish and English cultural and historical minutiae, and as a delightfully gossipy poke at social pretense, Pilkington's Memoirs are a classic of her era.
Publications
Author: Bibliographical Society of IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
HIST OF THE COUNTY DUBLIN THE
Author: F. Erlington (Francis Elrington) BallPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781362745044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
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