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2007 Conference
Conference
18th - 20th October 2007
Marsh's Library: A Mirror on the World
to commemorate the 1707 Act of Parliament establishing the Library
| Thursday 18th October 2007 | |
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| 7:00 p.m. | Prof. Jack P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD The expanding British world at the turn of the seventeenth century. |
| 8:00 p.m. | Reception in Marsh's Library |
| Friday 19th October 2007 | |
| 9:15 a.m. | Registration. |
| Session I | Parliament & Legislation |
| 9:30 a.m. | Prof. Nial Osborough, University College Dublin Six Anne, chapter 19 "Settling and Preserving a Publick Library for Ever". |
| 11:00 a.m. | Prof. David Hayton, Queen's University, Belfast Bishops as legislators: Marsh and his contemporaries. |
| 12:00 p.m. | Dr Thomas O'Connor, NUI Maynooth Aspects of the role of the Holy Office in Irish church affairs in the seventeenth century |
| Session II | Enlightenment & Counter-Enlightenment |
| 2:15 p.m. | Dr Michael Brown, University of Aberdeen The location of learning in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland. |
| 3:15 p.m. | Dr Cadoc Leighton, Bilkent University, Ankara Philip Skelton and the Irish origins of the British Protestant Counter-Enlightenment. |
| 4:45 p.m. | Prof. Ruth Whelan, NUI Maynooth Memorials and martyrs in French Protestantism after the Revocation. |
| 7:30 p.m. | Dinner, Kildare Street Club |
| Saturday 20th October 2007 | |
| Collectors and Collections | |
| Session III | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Prof. Philip Benedict, Université de Genève The library of Elie Bouhéreau. |
| 11:00 a.m. | Dr Toby Barnard, Hertford College, Oxford The book collecting activities of Bishop John Stearne. |
| 12:00 p.m. | Dr Elizabethanne Boran, The Edward Worth Library, Dublin Writing history in seventeenth-century Ireland: Dudley Loftus' Annals. |
| Session IV | |
| 2:15 p.m. | Dr Raymond Gillespie, NUI Maynooth Irish manuscript collectors in the age of Marsh. |
| 3:15 p.m. | Dr Archibald Elias, Philadelphia Richard Helsham, Jonathan Swift, and the library of John Putland. |
| 4:45 p.m. | Dr Marie-Louise Legg, Birkbeck College, London. Whose books? The Synge library catalogue of 1763. |
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