# Event Details - **Event Name**: Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Conference 2026 QUB 11-12 June 2026 - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 10:00 am – Fri, 12 Jun, 2026 at 12:00 pm - **Event Description**: The Conference programme is available at the following link https://www.ecis.ie/annual-conference/About this EventEighteenth-Century Ireland Society/An Cumann Éire San Ochtú Céad Déag2026 Annual ConferenceQueen’s University Belfast11-12 June 2026Thursday 11th June10.45: Registration (PFC Foyer) Tea / Coffee11.15-11.55 Welcome & Plenary Roundtable (PFC 2.18)Africans in Ireland, 1578-1921: Documenting their Historic Presence, A Work in ProgressA panel discussion of Dr Bill Hart’s critical, decades-long archival work and the transition into a digital humanities project.In person: William Hart (UU) and Nik Ribianszky (QUB)On-line: Mark Doyle (Middle Tennessee State) and Jonathan Wright (Maynooth)12.00-13.30 Parallel Sessions I1a: Women’s writing (Chair: Sinéad Sturgeon, QUB) (PFC 2.13)Sylvie Kleinman (TCD)‘“I awoke crying in ecstasy: ‘I’m in Belfast!” Political exile, public fame, private affective spheres. Relocating Matilda Tone in context (ca 1785-1849)’Sonja Lawrenson (Manchester Met)‘“Incapable of Translation:” Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent as Transfiction’Amy Prendergast (TCD)‘Climate, race, and mental health in the memoirs of Elizabeth Digby Pilot (1742–1826)’1b Army connections (Chair: S.J. Connolly, QUB) (PFC 2.11)Conor Caldwell (UL)Tunes: military and traditional Irish (tbc)James K. Wright (Carleton)‘The Evatt Collection: The Irish Rebellion of 1798 and Music of the Irish Gothic’Charles Ivar McGrath (UCD)‘Soldiers on the move in Ireland and abroad, 1691-1815’13.30–14.15 Lunch (PFC Foyer)14.15-15.45 Parallel Sessions 22a 1790s (Chair: Peter Gray, QUB) (PFC 2.13)Helen Dallas (Galway)‘Theatre in Revolutionary Contexts: two Earl of Essex plays in London and Dublin’Maria Zukovs (St Andrews)‘“The present alarmed state of the Country”: News, Government Correspondence and the 1796 French Invasion of Ireland’Lucy Cogan (UCD)‘Good British Ale or Bad Irish Whiskey: Ulster Labouring Class Poets and the 1798 Rebellion’2b Economics, hierarchies and education (Chair: Margaret Kelleher, UCD) (PFC 2.11)Andrea Katrina Byrne (Maynooth)‘Novelising Servitude: Discourses and Depictions of Domestic Servants in Eighteenth Century Literature’Jessica White (UCC)‘Economies of Intimacy in Maria Edgeworth’s Juvenile Fiction’Siobhán Dowling Long (UCC)‘The Early Charity-School Movement in Ireland: Qualifications, Rules and Orders to be Observed by Charity-School Masters (1716–1730)’15.45-16.15 Tea / Coffee16.15-17.45 Parallel Sessions 33a Ireland and Scotland (Chair: Frank Ferguson, UU) (PFC 2.13)Scott Macfie (Glasgow)‘Sweetening the Soil: Liming in the Irish and Scottish Agricultural Revolutions, 1750-1815’Gillian Dooley (Flinders)‘Jane Austen, “Scotch airs” and “Irish melodies”’Alan Millar (UU)‘Rev. James Glass A.M.: The Mercury’s Mercurial Makar’3b Religion (Chair: Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, DCU) (PFC 2.11)Andrew Sneddon (UU)‘Prophecy, “Toleration” and Missioning: The “French Prophets” in early eighteenth-century Ireland’Robert O’Byrne (TCD)‘Horticultural Hierarchy: Eighteenth Century Church of Ireland Bishops and their Gardens’Moyra Haslett (QUB)‘Dissenting connections: Olivia Elder and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Antrim and Warrington’18.00-19.00Plenary (PFC 2.18)Leonie Hannan (QUB)‘The Labour of Home: Cultivating, sustaining and experimenting in the eighteenth century’(Chair: Patrick Walsh, TCD)19.15-20.00Wine reception in the Seamus Heaney CentreSponsored by the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen’sPGR Bursary announcement20.00 Conference DinnerHolohan’s Pantry - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/belfast/eighteenth-century-ireland-society-conference-2026-qub-11-12-june-2026/100001988556811955 - **Event Categories**: business, conferences, art, literary-art, nonprofit, charities, sports, workshops, health-wellness, theatre, mental-health - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Queen's University Belfast - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 17.5, max: 60, currency: EUR ## Event venue details - **city**: Belfast - **state**: NI - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Queen's University Belfast - **lat**: 54.5841237 - **long**: -5.936570200000006 - **full address**: Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Conference 2026 QUB 11-12 June 2026 - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/3d5e5a731dc493522d5792e2cb0fd7193cac23907364637047c44f5980c1e84a-rimg-w321-h171-dc000000-gmir.png?v=1777982630 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Conference 2026 QUB 11-12 June 2026 being held? - **A:** Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Conference 2026 QUB 11-12 June 2026 takes place on Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 10:00 am to Fri, 12 Jun, 2026 at 12:00 pm at Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Conference 2026 QUB 11-12 June 2026? - **A:** Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Conference 2026 QUB 11-12 June 2026 is organized by Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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