... that is on its surface. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 London Irish Irish jokes Irish diaspora Stage Irishman ethnic stereotypes • The Irish Joke, Migrant Networks, and the London Irish in the 1680s...

... could offer “Judgement” to complement Fox’s flamboyant persona. III The most interesting feature of A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed is the figure of Ragan. He represents the most flagrant breach of the conven- tional stage Irishman of the late eighteenth century, a remarkable turn away...

... into demonstrating what now seems completely obvi- ous, namely, that Sheridan was not, at least in any significant or straightfor- ward way, devoted to battling back the forces of sentimental comedy that had overwhelmed the stage, in part because, pace midcentury critics, sentimental comedy was hardly...

...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...

... actors of the eighteenth-century London stage. Yet the opposing fates of Mulligan and Dd exemplify the spectrum of possibilities that awaited Irish arrivals in London in the eighteenth century. We might begin by considering why an essay collection on the activi- ties of the eighteenth-century...

.... that provided him with a living. The great racist oversimplification provided the basis for one of the several Quinn festschriften compiled fifty years later. Every Irishman who mattered in sixteenth-century Ireland was geneti- Shrinking World Rather than Expanding Europe? 111 cally...

... journey from a port such as Parkgate, Liverpool, Milford, Minehead, or Bristol. Lei- surely visits embraced much more than the city—watering places like Bath, the Hotwells at Bristol, Buxton, Harrogate, Epsom, and Tunbridge Wells. In some cases, London served merely as a staging post in a longer...

... to expose Johnson as a quack who had invented his identity as a legitimate doctor. Wakley’s strategy, predictably, relied on Johnson’s Irishness and entailed employing negative stereotypes of the Irish. According to Wakley, Johnson tried to leave his birthplace behind, but an Irishman still lurked...

...Robert W. Jones The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26103-45-jone.q4 5/24/02 3:21 PM Page 24 Sheridan and the Theatre of Patriotism: Staging Dissent during the War for America...

... setbacks. In the early stages of the Enlightenment radi- cal thinkers such as Spinoza cited the might of Islam and the extent of its dominions as evidence that universal Christianity might not be the world’s divinely appointed destiny, and as late as the 1750s Voltaire commented that nothing very...

..., and a second retreat in Surrey. She was responsible for a stepson, as well as two younger boys of her own. Historians of the stage, publication, polite culture, reading, domesticity, and female accom- plishment have all mined the manuscripts for her opinions.10 However, the central focus of Larpent s life...

... up in Macpherson’s stadial conception of human society: There are three stages in human society. The fi rst is the result of consanguinity, and the natural aff ection of the members of a family to one another. The second begins when property is established, and men enter...

... for the impecunious James Stuart, at thirty overdue for a bride. An Irishman named Charles Wogan was posted, first to look gen- erally at European princesses, and then to the court of Prince James Sobieski. He sent back the report on the Sobieskas that I have cited. An offer was made for Clementina...

... there. They also had numerous bonds with Irish communities in continental Europe, especially those on or near its western seaboard. Lon- don was often a staging post for Catholics moving between Ireland and the Continent, for purposes as various as going on pilgrimages or visiting religious houses...