Readings for the 2018 IRISH Seminar Required Books: Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland, eds. Hadfield and Willy Maley (Blackwell, 1997), ISBN 0-631-20535-7 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver s Travels. ed. C. Fox (Bedford and St. Martin s, 1995), ISBN 0-312- 06665-1 Daniel Corkery The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1924), ISBN 0-7171-0079-0 Brian Merriman, The Midnight Court, trans. Ciaran Carson (Winston-Salem: Wake Forest U Press, 2006), ISBN 1-930630-25-5 pbk Vincent Morley, The Popular Mind in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Cork: Cork U Press, 2017), pp. 1-14. ISBN 978-1-78205-208 Guy Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), Part 1 Collecting Memory, pp. 17-77. ISBN 978-0-299-21820-1 Stewart Parker, Plays 2, intro. Stephen Rea (London: Metheun/Drame, 2000), ISBN 0-413- 74350-0 Mary Norton, The Borrowers (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1953), ISBN 978-0-15-204737- 5 Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent and Ennui, ed. M. Butler (London: Penguin, 1992), ISBN 0-14-043320-1 Recommended for historical context: Thomas Bartlett, Ireland: A History (Cambridge UP, 2010) ISBN 978-1-107-42234-6 Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford: OUP, 2012), ISBN 978-0-19-870300 pbk Ian McBride, Eighteenth-century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 2009), ISBN 978-0-7171-1627-0
**NOTE: remaining readings of chapters, articles and poetry will be available by Pdf and also on Sakai Reading schedule per week: Week 1 June 11th-June 15th Exemplary texts (required): Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland, eds. Hadfield and Willy Maley (Blackwell, 1997), ISBN 0-631-20535-7 for Professor Ciaran Brady s Spenser seminar Paul Muldoon and Jonathan Swift, selected readings. For Professor Ailbhe Darcy s seminar Jonathan Swift, Gulliver s Travels. ed. C. Fox (Bedford and St. Martin s, 1995), ISBN 0-312- 06665-1; Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, The Story of an Injured Lady and A Modest Proposal for Professor Declan Kiberd s seminar Swift, selected poems for Professor John Sitter s seminar Swift, A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture, A Letter to the Shop- Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland Concerning the Brass Half- Pence, Letter IV to the Whole People of Ireland, A Short View of the State of Ireland and Maxims Controlled in Ireland. For Professor Ian McBride s seminar Secondary reading: Thomas Bartlett, Ireland: A History (Cambridge UP, 2010), pp. 1-142, ISBN 978-1-107-42234-6 Ian McBride, Eighteenth-century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 2009), ISBN 978-0-7171-1627-0 Ciaran Brady, Spenser s Irish Crisis: Humanism and Experience in the 1590s, Past and Present 111 (May, 1986): pp. 17-49. For Professor Brady s Spenser seminar Carole Fabricant, Swift the Irishman, in Christopher Fox, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), ISBN 0-521-00283-4, pp. 42-72 for Professor McBride s seminar
Clement Hawes, Three Times Round the globe: Gulliver and Colonial Discourse, Cultural Critique, 18 (1991): 187-214, for Professor McBride s seminar Christopher Fox, Swift s Scotophobia, Bullàn, 6.2 (1992): pp. 43-66, for Professor McBride s seminar Colm Lennon, The changing face of Dublin 1550-1750 in Peter Clark and Raymond Gillespie, eds. Two capitals: London and Dublin 1500-1840 (Oxford, 2001), pp. 39-52. For Professor Dickson s seminar David Dickson, Seven sisters? The seaport cities of mid-eighteenth century Ireland in Ireland, France and the Atlantic in a time of war, ed. Thomas M. Truxes (Abington, 2017), pp. 93-107. For Professor Dickson s seminar Sean Connolly, Improving town 1750-1820 in Belfast 400, ed. S. Connolly (Liverpool, 2012), pp. 161-197. For Professor Dickson s seminar Recommended secondary reading: Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford: OUP, 2012), ISBN 978-0-19-870300 pbk Willy Maley, Spenser and Ireland: An Annotated Bibliography, 1986-96 in Irish University Review, vol. 26, no 2 available on line through JSTOR Week 2 June 18th-June 22 Exemplary Texts (required): Daniel Corkery The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1924), ISBN 0-7171-0079-0; for Professor Ó Giolláin s seminar Brian Merriman, The Midnight Court, trans. Ciaran Carson (Winston-Salem: Wake Forest U Press, 2006), ISBN 1-930630-25-5 pbk; for Professor Declan Kiberd s seminar Poems of Séamus Dall Mac Cuarta, Aogán Ó Rathaille and Aod Buí Mac Cruitín in An Duanaire: Poems of the Dispossessed, eds. Sean Ó Tuama and T. Kinsella in English (and in Irish if you can). For Declan Kiberd s seminar and public lecture George Berkeley. The Querist: Containing Several Queries, Proposed to the Consideration of the Public (Dublin, 1740). For Professor James G. Buickerood s seminar
Oliver Goldsmith, A Description of the Manners and Customs of the Native Irish, The History of Carolan the Last Irish Bard, selections from A Comparative View of Races and Nations, The Traveller and The Deserted Village. For Professor Aileen Dillane s and Professor Michael Griffin s seminars Stewart Parker, Northern Star, in Stewart Parker, Plays 2, intro. Stephen Rea (London: Metheun/Drame, 2000), ISBN 0-413-74350-0 for Professor Jim Smyth s seminar NOTE that Ian Kuijt s, Ryan Lash s, William Donaruma s, Katie Shakour s and Tommy Burke s Island Places, Island Lives: Exploring Inishbofin and Inishark Heritage, Co. Galway, Ireland (Wordwell, Ltd, Dublin, 2015) will be presented to students in conjunction with the Thursday, June 21st site visit Secondary Reading: Vincent Morley, The Popular Mind in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Cork: Cork U Press, 2017), pp. 1-14 ISBN 978-1-78205-208 for Professor Ó Giolláin s seminar Guy Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), Part 1 Collecting Memory, pp. 17-77. ISBN 978-0-299-21820-1 for Professor Ó Giolláin s seminar Turlough O Carolan, DNB entry, for Professor Dillane s seminar Harry White, Carolan and the Dislocation of Music in Ireland, Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 4 (1989), 55-64, for Professor Dillane s seminar Mary Louise O Donnell, A Driving Image of Revolution: The Irish Harp and Its Utopian Space in the Eighteenth Century, Utopian Studies, 21. 2 (2010): 252-273, for Professor Dillane s seminar Carolan, the Last of the Bards, The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 26, No. 514 (Dec. 1, 1885), 713-714, for Professor Dillane s seminar Ian McBride, When Ulster Joined Ireland : Anti-Popery, Presbyterian Radicalism and Irish Republicanism in the 1790s, Past & Present 157 (Nov. 1997): 53-93. For Professor Jim Smyth s seminar Week 3 June 25th-June 29th Exemplary Texts (required): Edmund Burke, Selections from: Tracts Relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland, Speech in Support of Resolutions for Conciliation with the American Colonies, Reflections on the Revolution in France, First Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe,and Second Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe. For Professor Michael Brown s seminar
Mary Norton, The Borrowers (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1953), ISBN 978-0-15-204737-5 pbk, for Professor Declan Kiberd s public lecture Maria Edgeworth, The Grateful Negro for Christopher Fox s seminar Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent and Ennui, ed. M. Butler (London: Penguin, 1992), ISBN 0-14-043320-1 for Sara Maurer s and Claire Connolly s seminars Secondary Reading: Thomas Bartlett, Ireland s Long Eighteenth Century, in Ireland: A History (Cambridge UP, 2010), pp. 143-266 for Professor Thomas Bartlett s Seminar Eamon O Flaherty, Burke and the Catholic Question, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 12 (1997): 7-27. For Professor Michael Brown s seminar Claire Connolly, A Bookish History of Irish Romanticism, in Fermanis, Porscha & Regan, John, eds., Rethinking British and Irish Romantic Historiography (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 271 324; a link to it via the UCC open access repository here: https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/2971 for Professor Connolly s seminar Nicholas Canny, Ireland and Continental Europe, c 1600-1750, in Alvin Jackson, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (2014), pp. 333-355. For Professor Nicholas Canny s lecture