...Helen Burke This essay analyzes the Irish jokes that circulated in London in the 1680s, paying particular attention to those that emanated from the stage and from the two earliest Irish joke books, Bog Witticisms; or, Dear Joy’s Common-Places (1682) and Teagueland Jests, or Bogg-Witticisms (1690...

.... For Burke, early joke books targeting Teague and Patrick are evidence of a populace developing and circulating cultural capital that expresses anxiety in response to early Irish successes in the theater, but also, more broadly, that may be read as tacit metropolitan recognition that the Irish were...

... Scots- Irish Stuart tradition of esoteric and political Masonry. She details an ancient Hebraic, Cabalistic, Rosicrucian, and chivalric history Masonic R iva l r ies and Literar y Pol it ics 9 5 of Scots- Irish Masonry that was taken into exile by the Jacobites and was the tradition of Masonry inherited...

... this contemporary theme before in St Patrick’s Day, in which an Irish subaltern successfully woos a judge’s daughter while his troops are quartered in her neighborhood. Although Lieutenant O’Connor’s assignations with Lauretta are treated sentimentally, there is also...

...David O’Shaughnessy The Whig pamphleteer Dennis O’Bryen is one of a number of Irish playwrights in eighteenth-century London whose cultural and political contribution to the city has been overlooked. This essay offers the early career of O’Bryen as a case study in how the theater might be used...

...John Bergin Many Catholics migrated from Ireland to other European countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Those who settled in Catholic regions of Europe are relatively well known, but little attention has been paid to an Irish Catholic community that appeared in London...

... The Eccentric Mirror, comprising four volumes of short texts about characters who ranged from Old Tommy, aged 107, to Patrick O’Brien the Irish Giant; from the rich but abstemious vegetarian Lord Rokeby to the poor Charles Domery, a Liverpool criminal who ate grass, cats (dead...

... Ballad” (1774). The work of a minor Shrewsbury poet named Samuel Johnson (ca.1738–98, no relation), this four-part trav- esty replaces Shenstone’s grieving lover with a one-eyed and one-legged Irish shepherd named Phelim O’Gimlet. In a hobbling anapestic meter, O’Gimlet describes his torments...

... Carlton House was, deplorably, Tory), to the Irish Charity Ball of 1822, and fi- nally to the court guide, The Red Book of 1825, when Cecil consents to become a courtier to George IV, a conclusion he greets as a sad and wry ECL25209-134-Cope.p65 131...

... two brief citations in all of the three volumes of the EHSL. Fiona Stafford, in Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry from Burns to Heaney (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2000), 51 – 52, and Murray Pittock, in Scottish and Irish Romanticism (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2008) 46 – 47, read...

... the nation. Davies, born in Dublin in 667, is the daughter of a brewer father and a mother who runs the family farm. Though Irish, Davies firmly establishes herself and her family as Protestant and loyal- ist. She mentions that her mother “wept bitterly” at the proclamation of James II as king...

... was always with me, left me no appetite for possessing the charming Irish-woman. I returned to my house, melancholy and discontented. It seemed to me that I ought to renounce La Charpillon for ever; but, in consideration of my own honor, I should not leave her with the victory...

... to their Irish Friends will be very great. I am very certain that my poor Mother would rather have the giving away of half a Dozen such Books, than half a Dozen Pictures of Him by Sir Josh: Reynolds.14 I think I may, my dear Madam, reckon assuredly on your coun­ tenancing...

... Ireland, of “crime,” “punishment,” “banishment,” and “fornication.” 19 If Lovewell's first words, “Villain, unhand the Lady” (I.198) establish his role as a gallant, and his next utterance, “My dear Roebuck ,” confirms his characterization as the boisterous Irish gentleman's companion, the words...

..., Temple, and the King’s Brother, the Duke of Cumberland,” caring for him imme- diately thereafter.31 Conspicuous by his absence is the Duke of Portland. Whether Burke saw Chatham fall is unclear. He had been engaged all day in a debate on Irish trade in the House of Commons, a debate that ran well...

... of stratagems and deceptions, his Victorian editors excoriated what seemed to them an unfor- Modern Scholarship and the Vanishing Text 5 givably immoral, treacherous, dark-hearted poet who would stoop even to deceiving his Irish friend Swift.10 According to Croker in 1871, “He dis...

... the tax observes that ruddy hands “have done penance every night in a dogskin covering, artificially fitted to them.” Brindle, Dogs Plea, 24. 16. In 1763, a dog-tax bill was debated before the Irish Parliament; in March 1776, a dog tax was proposed to Commons “to ease the poor rates”; in 1785...

... to the present Time. With The Memoirs of most of the principal Performers that have appeared on the English and Irish Stage for these last Fifty Years (London: W. Owen, 1749), 194. Reading Milton in Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellanies 5 3 27.  For more on Dalton’s adaptation and Johnson’s...

... Harlowe to Dr. John Hunter's actual pursuit of the corpse of the Irish giant Charles Byrne, identify as figures who share “a scientific mission tinged with supernatural wonder and sexual importunity” aimed at “see[ing] beneath the surface of apparent mystery” (15). Although Hay states that he does...