UCD Humanities InstituteUCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy

SYMPOSIUM: 3 JUNE 2011

Anglo-Irish orientalists, travellers, Dilletanti and architects: Ireland, the Mediterranean and book culture 1607-1810

This symposium explores the theme of Ireland, the Mediterranean and book culture in the early modern period, exploring the prescience of Anglo-Irish travellers who were directly engaged with recording Mediterranean culture, and with its dissemination through print media. The symposium celebrates this desire to gather and transport knowledge with a view to providing new information and creating impetus for artistic movements such as neo-classicism in Ireland, Europe and beyond.

PROGRAMME

SESSION 1 Chair: Jane Fenlon (OPW)

10.00am An Irish library in Rome for the Irish mission: pre-1700 books in St. Isidore’s College J. McCafferty (UCD)

10.20am Bishop William Bedell, Venice and Gaelic Ireland Marc Caball (HII)

10.40am Pococke’s Description of the east and Lord Sandwich Voyage round the Mediterranean in 1738 & 1739, by himself Rachael Finnegan (WIT)

Coffee

11.30am Giovanni Battista Borra and Robert Wood. Arguments for the revival of a book project Olga Zoller (Bruhl)

11.50am Bound and dedicated to Lord Charlemont: Piranesi’s L’Antichita Romane rejected Joseph McDonnell (Ind.)

12.10pm Consuming the antique: Frederick Hervey and the translation of continental style in an Irish context Rebecca Campion (NUIM)

DISCUSSION

Lunch

SESSION 2 Chair: Christine Casey (TCD)

2.00pm James Cavanagh Murphy’s The Arabian antiquities of Spain Karina O’Neill (RIAI)

2.20pm C.R. Cockerell’s admeasurements and The Ionian antiquities Lynda Mulvin (UCD)

2.40pm Lost in translation? The classical revival and the Georgian plastering trade Conor Lucey (NUI)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS3.00pm Ireland and the Mediterranean – reflections on eighteenth-century book culture Toby Barnard (Hertford College, Oxford)

DISCUSSION