University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College present a one day symposium entitled Editing Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Process and Dissemination, Ireland’s printed literature before 1800: how, why and when should we produce new editions for the modern reader?
It will take place in the Board Room, Plassey House, University of Limerick and all are welcome
Programme:
9:45 Welcome
10:00 Session 1
Deana Rankin (Royal Holloway), ‘Voicing Amazons: Editing Henry Burnell’s Landgartha (Dublin, 1640)’
David O’Shaughnessy (TCD), ‘Editing Early Irish Drama’
11:15 Plenary Lecture 1
Ian Campbell Ross (Professor emeritus, TCD)
13:00 Session 2
Christina Morin (UL), ‘To Edit, or not to Edit: The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley and the Question of Piracy’
Aileen Douglas (TCD), ‘The Critical Edition and Research Metrics: the Non-comprehension of Intellectual Work’
14:15 Session 3
Daniel Roberts (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘“Who the devil was Charles Johns[t]on”?:Researching Johnston’s biography’
Michael Griffin (UL), ‘Between Swift and Goldsmith: Editing the Poems of Laurence Whyte (Dublin, 1742)’
16:15 Plenary 2
Andrew Carpenter (Professor emeritus, UCD) and Lucy Collins (UCD)
17:15 Wine Reception
The organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of the Irish Research Council.