Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland

John Kirk is Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish Language at Queen’s University Belfast. During 2008–9, with Michael Brown and Andrew Noble, he held an AHRC Research Networks and Workshops Grant for the project which lies behind the present volume: United Islands? Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry and Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770–1820. With primary research interests in dialectology and corpus linguistics, his most recent books are (with J. L. Kallen) SPICE-Ireland: A User’s Guide (Belfast: ClÓ Ollscoil na Banríona, 2012) and (co-edited with I. MacLeod) Scots: The Language and its Literature: A Festschrift for J. Derrick McClure (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012)., Michael Brown is Senior Lecturer in Irish and Scottish History at the University of Aberdeen and Acting Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. As well as being a co-director of the AHRC network grant United Islands? Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry and Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770–1820 in 2008–9, he has directed an AHRC project on Irish and Scottish Diasporas since 1600 (2006–11). His primary research focus is on comparative Enlightenment, and he is the author of Francis Hutcheson in Dublin (Dublin; Four Courts Press, 2002) and A Political Biography of John Toland (London, Pickering & Chatto, 2011). He is currently finishing a study entitled The Irish Enlightenment. Andrew Noble is a graduate of Aberdeen and Sussex Universities. He was also a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. His teaching career was entirely at Strathclyde University, where he was for a time Head of the English Literature Section. He specialized in teaching American Literature and Romanticism. Before his retirement, he was the Convenor of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative. His published research is mainly in Scottish literature and film. His extensive writings on Burns culminated in the publication of the joint-edition with P. S. Hogg of The Canongate Burns (2001, 2003). He has recently been appointed Honorary Visiting Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Queen’s University Belfast.

• Introduction: Enlightenment and Revolution: A British Problematic, Michael Brown; Chapter 1, Ffion Mair Jones; Chapter 2 Scottophobia Versus Jacobitism: Political Radicalism and the Press in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Martyn J. Powell; Chapter 3 Lord Daer, Radicalism, Union and the Enlightenment in the 1790s, Bob Harris; Chapter 4 The Political and Cultural Legacy of Robert Burns in Scotland and Ulster, c. 1796–1859, Christopher A. Whatley; Chapter 5 ‘Blessèd Jubil!’: Slavery, Mission and the Millennial Dawn in the Work of William Williams of Pantycelyn, E. Wyn James; Chapter 6 Serial Literature and Radical Poetry in Wales at the End of the Eighteenth Century, Marion Löffler; Chapter 7 Popular Song, Readers and Language: Printed Anthologies in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, 1780–1820, Niall Ó Ciosáin; Chapter 8 Broadside Literature and Popular Political Opinion in Munster, 1800–1820, Maura Cronin; Chapter 9 Radical Poetry and The Literary Magazine: Stalking Leigh Hunt in The Republic of Letters, Dan Wall;