... evidence of coordinated activity is set against the forces that encouraged assimilation into the local London and English cultures, thereby diluting “Irishness.” Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Peers Clergy Lawyers Writers Artists Language Celebration...

...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...

...”: Recovering the London Irish of the Eighteenth Century David O’Shaughnessy Trinity College Dublin “London exclaimed Miss Counihan. “The Mecca of every young aspirant to fiscal distinction.” —Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1939) In 1708...

...Ric Berman Formed in London in 1751, the Antients Grand Lodge of Freemasons was created as a rival to the pro-establishment Grand Lodge of England, itself created in 1717. The Antients was shaped by the Irish diaspora in London, although disaffection within London Freemasonry was then so great...

..., this article shows how Irish investors, both those living in London, and those more normally residing in Ireland, interacted with the London markets. The importance of personal and familial links is emphasized, while the experience of Irish investors is also situated within the broader context...

...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...

...Nigel Aston The ascent of John Fitzmaurice is a study in the processes of Anglo-Irish integration and socialization in aristocratic circles in eighteenth-century London, a subject area that awaits systematic investigation: his is less a story of rags to riches than of a resourceful Irishman from...

...Craig Bailey This article focuses on the physician James Johnson to examine the role Irishness played in the process of identity formation in London during the long eighteenth century. Using biographies, medical journals, and travel literature to chart the development of Johnson’s identity...

...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...

..., Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, 3rd ed., 5 vols. (London: Sherwood, 1836), 1:345. 8.  Quoted in Con Costello, Botany Bay: The Story of the Convicts Transported from Ireland to Australia, 1791–1853 (Cork: Mercier, 1987), 23. 9.  For O’Farrell’s view, see his Irish in Australia...

... action in Parliament. Swift s tract, by contrast, attracted considerably more attention in London, where the reading public were more likely to be intrigued and amused by fantasies of Irish depravity (lxxxv). Since then, much of its fame has been the result of the variety of differing interpre...

...William Donaldson Henigan Julie . Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth–Century Irish Song . Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution Series , no. 2 ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2012 ). Pp. ix + 272. 9 ills. $99 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

... in Parody: The New Critical Idiom (London: Routledge, 2000), especially 78 – 92. Finally, Robert Mahoney, in “Swift’s Modest Proposal and the Rhetoric of Irish Colonial Consumption,” from 1650 – 1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 4 (1998): 205 – 14, demonstrates...

... in the Southern Hemisphere (London, 1773). Courtesy National Library of Australia. world’s species of marsupials, as well as trees that shed bark, not leaves. Australia breached all expectations of a southern continent that many had speculated must balance...

... congregations, both in the Irish countryside at Laracor, and in the city of Dublin. He was good evening company in both Dublin and London. He wrote three of the most brilliant works of all time: A Tale of a Tub , A Modest Proposal , and Gulliver's Travels . He dashed off masterpieces like An Argument...

.... The work is a burlesque of Freemasonry. It explicitly counters the Scots Presbyterian Whig James Anderson s official pro- Hanoverian The Constitution of the Freemasons (London, 1723), mockingly exposing his igno- rance of the true ancient Scots- Irish Masonry. The mystery of Masonry is said to be rooted...

...Mary Carter Most scholars turn a blind eye to A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars in All the Parishes of Dublin , but as Jonathan Swift’s final pamphlet on Irish affairs, it deserves our attention. This essay contextualizes the pamphlet among Swift’s more familiar arguments for solving...

... in basing his refur- bishment of the Scottish Gael around Ossian, namely the claim of the Irish on the Fian-lore. In eff ect, Macpherson plays these objections — the English belief that the Celt is an uncivilized barbarian, and the Irish claim to be the original Celtic people — off against each other...

... to a dual English and Irish reader- ship (it was published in London). This anthology also uncovers the profound influence of James Thomson on Irish landscape poetry: “Thomson is another name for nature now” (183). As a Scottish Whig (the anthology incorrectly calls him an “English poet Thomson...

... and unenfranchised Catholic majority (for whom Swift could not and did not speak), the minority for whom he did speak was the “old Irish,” neither old, nor Irish, but the Anglo-Irish Protestant ascendancy who found their established interests in conflict with their “own” Westminster government in London...