Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Novelty, experiment and widening horizons

Toby Barnard & Alison FitzGerald, editors

Leonie Hannan
Daily life and scientific enquiry

Finola O’Kane
Dublin’s sugar landscapes in the eighteenth century: some French parallels and connections

David Fleming
‘Not to be had elsewhere in this kingdom’: buying and selling exotic plants in Ireland, 1740–1820

Joel Herman
A political turn of the Irish newspaper, 1760–70

Toby Barnard
A taste for pastes: Dr Henry Quin, James Tassie and the empress of Russia

Alison FitzGerald
Classicism and commerce: Josiah Wedgwood and his ‘seed[s] of consequence

James Kelly
William Allen and the emergence of single-sheet graphic satire publication in Ireland, 1778–95

Padhraig Higgins
The chimney doctor at Channel Row: Benjamin Thompson’s experiments in poor relief in the 1790s

Anna Moran
A brittle business: Charles Mulvany and the Dublin glass industry, c.1780–c.1840

Jonathan Jeffrey Wright
Frustrated ambition in the eighteenth-century Atlantic: Robert Tennent in Jamaica, c.1784–95