Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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Enlightenment aesthetics, especially Hume, Burke, Kant, Hegel; Poetry and poetics of William Wordsworth; Anglo-Irish writing and poetics of Maria Edgeworth.

Mexican literary-scientific culture and periodical history; Irish involvement in Mexican medicine.

Politics, ideologies, culture, religion and society in 17th- and 18th-century Ireland.

Literary relations between Britain and France, the impact of the Enlightenment on Ireland, Voltaire, Bernardin de Saint Pierre.

17th/18th - century translation activity, Gaelic scribal activity in the 18th century, Gaelic poetry of South Ulster, The Irish in Europe 1600 - 1800.

The poetry collections of Thomas Percy (Bishop Percy of Dromore); Charlotte Brooke.

Poetry of Byron. Women's writing in the 18th -century ideas of community and conversation.

Irish and British parliamentary and political history (1600-1800), Daniel Defoe. The correspondence of the Brodrick family.

Irish religious history; millenarianism; women’s social, political, religious history.

Poyning's Law and the making of law 1660-1800, the practice of medicine, the control of print, the phenomenon of collective activity, the life of Sir Richard Musgrave and ideology of ultra-protestantism.

John Toland; Migration between Ulster and Britain. 

History and theory of geography, cartography, and scientific culture.

Irish political and social history of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

17th- and 18th- century theatre music and dance, Marie Sallé, rhythm and genre, music collections.

Women and gender in Ireland, 1500-1850.

Music and musicians in 18th - and 19th -century Britain, editing and publishing, performance practice, reception history, institutions and social conditions.

The eighteenth-century novel; Laurence Sterne; comic discourse; polite and popular culture; the Early Black Atlantic; Olaudah Equiano.

Romantic Literature and Indian Literature in English.

Irish activities in the West Indies 1644-1838 and the impact of slavery and-anti slavery on Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

History of ideas, history of reading, autobiographies, letter writing, Travel Literature.

Poetry (particularly the Latin poetry) of Milton, Addison and Gray.

Slavic music, the music of the French Baroque, continuo in theory and practice.

J.S.Bach, the reception of Bach in Britain and Ireland, influence of Bach on Mozart, source studies, performance practice.

Music in Ireland, social history of music, music and the British Empire, Italian opera in London, history of musical instruments, Mozart source studies.