‘Irish People in Great Britain (1689-present): An Interdisciplinary Symposium’, will take place from 9am – 6pm on Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at Mary Immaculate College, South Circular Road, Limerick. The keynote speaker will be Dr Sonja Lawrenson (Manchester Metropolitan University). Proposals are now invited for papers that explore the lives, struggles and achievements of Irish ..read more

The 2024 Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire san Ochtú Céad Déag is scheduled to take place in the University of Galway on 20-21 June 2024. The Call for Papers and applications for postgraduate bursaries are now open. Go to our Annual Conference webpage for more information ..read more

Martin McMahon is completing an MA in Irish History at University College Dublin. His research explores the impact of the military on Irish urbanisation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He will be speaking about his research at the ECIS Annual Conference on 16-17 June 2023. You can follow him on Twitter @MartinMc1404 Favourite archive:Many archives like ..read more

Luke Murphy is a PhD candidate at Dundalk Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the history of cartography and landed estates in the region of north County Louth. He is particularly interested in why estate maps and surveys were being commissioned at certain moments in time, their uses in estate management and how estate ..read more

Applications for the next A. C. Elias, Jr. Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship are now being accepted. The deadline for applications is 15 November 2022. The ASECS’ A. C. Elias Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship, with $2500 in annual funding, supports “documentary scholarship on Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act ..read more

Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh founded the library in his cathedral city in 1771 and saw it as embodying the 18th-century spirit of enlightenment, discovery and learning. Armagh Robinson Library hosts over 40,000 literary gems – from medieval Books of Hours and early editions of the Bible to classic literature, books on science, mathematics, art ..read more

Kristina Decker is a PhD researcher at University College Cork. Her research explores women and the culture of Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Her broader interests include women’s history and the cultural history of the long eighteenth century, country house and material culture studies, and animal histories. She will be speaking about her research at the ..read more

Andrew Dorman is a doctoral candidate in the DCU School of History and Geography. His research considers the soldier’s experience in eighteenth-century Ireland. He will be speaking about his research at the ECIS Annual Conference on 17-18 June 2022. You can follow him on Twitter @andydormann. Favourite archive:The National Army Museum in Chelsea. My inner 9-year-old appreciates ..read more

Maria Zukovs is a PhD Candidate at the University of St Andrews. Her research explores Dublin press coverage of the French Revolution and the impact it had on contemporaneous society, culture and politics. She will be speaking about her research at the ECIS Annual Conference on 17-18 June 2022. You can follow her on Twitter @m_zukovs. Favourite ..read more

Eliza Spakman is Research MA student in Literary Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research explores Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s writing, specifically Maria Edgeworth. Her wider interests include the Irish Enlightenment, Female Enlightenment thinking and networks, the Bluestocking circle, and Mary Wollstonecraft. She also wrote a paper on the Great Frost last year ..read more