{"id":9217,"date":"2018-09-28T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T08:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T08:16:52","slug":"book-launch-of-the-cambridge-edition-of-the-works-of-jonathan-swift-irish-political-writings-after-1725-a-modest-proposal-and-other-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/book-launch-of-the-cambridge-edition-of-the-works-of-jonathan-swift-irish-political-writings-after-1725-a-modest-proposal-and-other-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift: Irish Political Writings after 1725: A Modest Proposal and Other Works."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Robert Whan, the Keeper of Armagh Robinson Library, welcomed people to the book launch of Professor David Hayton\u2019s latest publication, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift:<\/em> Irish Political Writings after 1725: A Modest Proposal and Other Works.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Professor Hayton kindly chose the Library for his Irish book launch.\u00a0 As a member of the Library\u2019s Management Advisory Committee, and a regular visitor to the Library, David is aware of the material which the Library holds on Jonathan Swift and on early eighteenth-century Ireland.<\/p>\n

David Hayton is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen’s University Belfast and a Visiting Professor at Ulster University. His research covers many aspects of British and Irish history from the Restoration to the middle of the 18th century, with a concentration on political and religious themes.\u00a0Speaking ahead of the launch, Professor Hayton said, \u201cThere could be few more appropriate places to launch this book than the Robinson Library, given Swift\u2019s fondness for County Armagh, and the library\u2019s remarkable collection of Swiftiana, comprising both printed books and manuscripts. As a patriot, Swift tended not to approve of Englishmen appointed as bishops in the eighteenth-century Church of Ireland, but he would certainly approve of the legacy left by Archbishop Robinson to the city, and to the world of scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The launch was carried out by Professor Andrew Carpenter who was warmly welcomed back to the Library.\u00a0 Since his retirement from University College Dublin, Professor Carpenter has continued his main scholarly interest in poetry, written in English in Ireland between 1550 and 1830.\u00a0 As a recognised expert on the work of Jonathan Swift, he was an ideal person to launch this publication. Of the work, Andrew said, \u201cThis latest addition to the definitive\u00a0Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift\u00a0<\/em>has been brilliantly edited by David Hayton and Adam Rounce. The thirty texts are fascinating in themselves and the bibliographical information about them is of the highest scholarly standard. The introduction and headnotes are elegant, stylish and refreshingly objective.\u201d<\/p>\n

With David\u2019s help, a selection of books from the Library\u2019s own holdings was put on display for the evening, including references to Swift the Patriot, A Modest Proposal, <\/em>the cannibal theme, and Swift and the poor.\u00a0 In addition, David brought a halfpenny coin struck by Wood, with George I\u2019s image on the obverse and Hibernia on the reverse to add to the display.\u00a0 Curator of Armagh County Museum, Mr Sean Barden, also brought a \u2018Beggar\u2019s Badge\u2019 which had been in use in Mullabrack Parish, issued in 1741, four years after Swift published his essay encouraging the badging of the poor.<\/p>\n

Refreshments for the event were provided by Ulster University, which was represented by Dr Frank Ferguson.\u00a0 This was a lovely gesture which reinforces the collaboration between Ulster University and Armagh Robinson Library.<\/p>\n

Image credit: Ian Maginess<\/p>\n

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Dr Frank Ferguson, Ulster University’s representative, Professor David Hayton and Mr Sean Barden, Curator of Armagh County Museum, who brought a ‘Beggar’s Badge’ from his museum to complement the display of works on and about Swift.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Library volunteers Dominic Henry and Anna Hunter with Professor Hayton. Anna had helped to gather the material from the Library’s collection for the exhibition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Part of the audience at the book launch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Part of the audience at the book launch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stephen Day, Registry Officer, with Stephen Reid from Brookside Publishing Services, who sold copies of the book at the launch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Professor Moyra Haslett, Queen’s University Belfast’s representative, Thirza Mulder, Archivist who had brought the exhibition together for the event, and visitor George Yerby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stephen Hartley and Eric Marshall, two of the Library’s volunteers, who contributed to the purchase of a copy of the book for the Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pooler Archbold and Brendan Twomey joined Library volunteers Mary Dawson, Rachel Toner and George Woodman to look at the exhibition on Swift from the Library’s collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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