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This conference was held as part of the celebration of the tercentenary of Marsh's Library in 2001.
Proceedings
The proceedings of the conference have been published by Four Courts Press as The Making of Marsh's Library: learning, politics and religion in Ireland, 1650-1750.
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2001 Conference
Tercentenary Conference 4th - 6th October 2001
The Making of Marsh's Library
| Thursday 4th October 2001 | |
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| 7:00 p.m. | Prof. J.G.A. Pocock, John Hopkins University, Baltimore MD Edward Gibbon and clerical scholarship |
| 8:00 p.m. | Reception in Marsh's Library |
| Friday 5th October 2001 | |
| 9.15 a.m. | Registration |
| Session I | Making a Library for Learning |
| 9.30 a.m. | Dr Edward McParland, Trinity College, Dublin Building Marsh's Library: the architecture of Marsh's in its European context |
| 10.30 a.m. | Coffee |
| 11.00 a.m. | Prof. Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, London Robert Boyle, Narcissus Marsh and the Anglo-Irish intellectual scene in the late 17th century |
| 12.00 | Dr Colin Wakefield, Bodleian Library, Oxford Archbishop Marsh's oriental collection in the Bodleian Library |
| 1.00 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session II | Making a Library for God |
| 2.15 p.m. | Dr Raymond Gillespie, NUI Maynooth Marsh and his God |
| 3.15 p.m. | Prof. Stuart Clark, University of Wales, Swansea Satanic libraries: Marsh's witchcraft books |
| 4.15 p.m. | Tea |
| 4.45 p.m. | Dr Justin Champion, Royal Holloway College, London De studio theologiae: John Toland and the attack on 'Godly learning' 1699-1726 |
| 7.30 p.m. | Dinner, Kildare Street Club |
| Saturday 6th October 2001 | |
| Session III | Making a Library for the Public |
| 9.30 a.m. | Dr Toby Barnard, Hertford College, Oxford Marsh's Library and the reading public |
| 10.30 a.m. | Coffee |
| 11.00 a.m. | Dr David Hayton, Queen's University, Belfast Marsh's Library and the clerical public |
| 12.00 | Prof. Andrew Carpenter, University College Dublin Sectarianism in Marsh's Ireland: the literary evidence |
| 1.00 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session IV | Making a Library for Other Traditions |
| 2.15 p.m. | Prof. Ruth Whelan, NUI Maynooth Marsh's Library and the French Calvinist tradition |
| 3.15 p.m. | Dr Thomas O'Connor, NUI Maynooth Marsh's Library and the Irish Catholic intellectual elite |
| 4.15 p.m. | Tea |
| 4.45 p.m. | Prof. William Horbury, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Christian Hebraism in the mirror of Marsh's collection |
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