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Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare, 1710-91 : life and works /

Contributor(s): O'Gara-O'Riordan, Maura | Gibbons, Luke | O'Conor, Kieran Denis.
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, 2015Description: 286 p. : ill. (chiefly color), plates, map ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846821110 (hbk.); 9781846821110:; 1846821118 (hbk.).Subject(s): O'Conor, Charles, 1710-1791 | O'Conor, Charles, 1710-1791 -- Criticism and interpretation | Historians -- Ireland -- Biography | Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | Antiquarians -- Ireland -- Biography | Ireland -- Civilization -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 941.5070092
Contents:
List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Pyers O'Conor-Nash -- Introduction : Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare (1710-91) / Luke Gibbons and Kieran O'Conor -- Some account of Charles O'Conor and literacy in Irish in his time / Diarmaid Ó Catháin -- Ballinagare Castle, Co. Roscommon / Kieran O'Conor and Jeremy Williams -- Charles O'Conor as a 'philosophical historian' / John Wrynn S. J. -- 'A revolution in our moral and civil affairs' : Charles O'Conor and the creation of a community of scholars in late eighteenth-century Ireland / Clare O'Halloran -- Writing in an enlightened age? Charles O'Conor and the philosophes / Hilary Larkin -- 'A foot in both camps' : Charles O'Conor, print culture and the counter-public sphere / Luke Gibbons -- 'Daring to remember what they have dared to forget' : Dr Charles O'Connor's Memoirs of the life and writings of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare (1796) / Olga Tsapina -- Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare and the Macpherson controversy / Mícheál Mac Craith -- Keeping the embers alive : Charles O'Conor and Irish manuscripts, his own and others / Nollaig Ó Muraíle -- Charles O'Conor's contribution to Irish-language scholarship / Lesa Ní Mhunghaile -- Charles O'Conor and the Annals of the Four Masters / Maura O'Gara-O'Riordan -- 'Why sleeps O'Conor'? Charles O'Conor and the Irish nationalization of native historical consciousness / Joep Leerssen.
Summary: Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare (1710-1791) was one of 18th-century Ireland's greatest scholars, who wrote in both Irish and English. This volume consists of the series of essays on the life and work of this great Irishman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Pyers O'Conor-Nash -- Introduction : Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare (1710-91) / Luke Gibbons and Kieran O'Conor -- Some account of Charles O'Conor and literacy in Irish in his time / Diarmaid Ó Catháin -- Ballinagare Castle, Co. Roscommon / Kieran O'Conor and Jeremy Williams -- Charles O'Conor as a 'philosophical historian' / John Wrynn S. J. -- 'A revolution in our moral and civil affairs' : Charles O'Conor and the creation of a community of scholars in late eighteenth-century Ireland / Clare O'Halloran -- Writing in an enlightened age? Charles O'Conor and the philosophes / Hilary Larkin -- 'A foot in both camps' : Charles O'Conor, print culture and the counter-public sphere / Luke Gibbons -- 'Daring to remember what they have dared to forget' : Dr Charles O'Connor's Memoirs of the life and writings of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare (1796) / Olga Tsapina -- Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare and the Macpherson controversy / Mícheál Mac Craith -- Keeping the embers alive : Charles O'Conor and Irish manuscripts, his own and others / Nollaig Ó Muraíle -- Charles O'Conor's contribution to Irish-language scholarship / Lesa Ní Mhunghaile -- Charles O'Conor and the Annals of the Four Masters / Maura O'Gara-O'Riordan -- 'Why sleeps O'Conor'? Charles O'Conor and the Irish nationalization of native historical consciousness / Joep Leerssen.

Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare (1710-1791) was one of 18th-century Ireland's greatest scholars, who wrote in both Irish and English. This volume consists of the series of essays on the life and work of this great Irishman.

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