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Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare, 1710-91 : life and works / Luke Gibbons and Kieran O'Conor editors.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2015.Description: 286 p. : ill., col. plates ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781846821110 : (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 920
Contents:
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 literary 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 SJ -- '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 boths 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'Conor'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 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 Leersen -- Bibliography -- Index.
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This volume on the life and work of this great Irishman consists of a dozen essays by experts in language, literature, archaeology, history and architecture.

Includes bibliographical references and index. It has its origins in a conference run under the auspices of the Cruachan Aí Visitor Centre, Tulsk, which took place in May 2006 in the Abbey Hotel, Roscommon.

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 literary 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 SJ -- '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 boths 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'Conor'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 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 Leersen -- Bibliography -- Index.

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