Schedule

Thursday, 8 June 2006

10:00

Registration, welcome and orientation (Public Library). Chair: C. Ivar McGrath

10:30

Tour of the Armagh Public Library

12:00

Lunch (D'Averell House, English Street)

2:00 - 4:15

Session I (Ó Fiaich Library). Chair: Michael Brown

• Stephen Timmons—West Country tin mining and the political economy, 1673-1697
• Helen Julia Paul—The Darien Scheme and Anglophobia in Scotland

4:30

Tour of the Ó Fiaich Library

7:00

Dinner (Zio, Market Place)

Friday, 9 June 2006

10:00 - 12:00

Session II (Ó Fiaich Library). Chair: Alan Downie

• Hugh Goodacre—The "adventure for Irish land": money, power and the roots of the financial revolution
• Natasha Glaisyer—"Venturing fortunes": lotteries and the financial revolution, 1694-1750

12:00

Lunch (Stage Bar and Bistro, Market Place Theatre)

2:00 - 4:00

Session III (Public Library). Chair: Eoin Magennis

• Martyn Powell—The politics of credit and debt in Dublin, 1720-1783
• Patrick Walsh—"The sin of withholding tribute": contemporary pamphlets and the professionalization of the Irish revenue service in the early eighteenth century
• Anne Laurence—"I have had considerable losses…by the fall in our money in this kingdom": Mrs. Bonnell's Anglo-Irish business affairs

5:45

An Eighteenth-Century Evensong (St. Patrick's Cathedral)

7:15

Dinner (Jaflong, Scotch Street)

Saturday, 10 June 2006

9:30 - 11:30

Session IV (Ó Fiaich Library). Chair: Jim Hartley

• Charles Larkin—Charles Davenant and the great re-coinage of 1696: an early modern economist's perspective
• Sean Moore—Edmund Burke's financial publicity: rhetoric, investment, and the state in mid-eighteenth century Britain

12:30 - 2:00

Session V (Public Library). Chair: Chris Fauske

• Working lunch to discuss:
  • conference volume
  • agenda for future research

evening

Optional communal dinner (Mandarin House Palace, Scotch Street)