Schedule
Wednesday, 25 June
Wednesday, 25 June
8:30 PMInformal, optional get-acquainted session in the bar of the Quality Hotel Harbourview
Thursday, 26 June
Thursday, 26 June
9:30 - 11:30Session I. Chair: Eoin Magennis
- Welcoming remarks (Eoin Magennis)
- Introduction to The Rooms (Chrysta Collins)
- Introduction to the British Museum's early money holdings (Catherine Eagleton)
12:00 - 1:30Lunch: Aqua (310 Water Street)2:00 - 4:00Session II. Chair: Rick Kleer
- Group discussion of three common readings from the contemporary public-finance literature
- Reading 1: [Daniel Defoe]—The chimera: or, the French way of paying national debts laid open (London, 1720)
- Reading 2: Hercules Rowley—An answer to a book, intitl'd, Reasons offer'd for erecting a Bank in Ireland. In a letter to Henry Maxwell (Dublin, 1721)
- Reading 3: [John Dickinson]—The late regulations respecting the British colonies on the continent of America considered (Philadelphia & London, 1766)
4:15 - 5:30Session III. Respondent: Sean Moore
7:00Dinner: Gypsy Tea Room (195 Water Street)
Friday, 27 June
Friday, 27 June
10:00 - 12:00Session IV. Chair: James Hartley
- Group discussion, facilitated by Eoin Magennis and Rick Kleer, of New Institutional Economics interpretations of the Financial Revolution. Common reading: Douglass North and Barry Weingast—"Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England". Journal of Economic History 49 (1989):803-32
12:30 - 1:45Lunch: India Gate (286 Duckworth Street)2:00 - 4:00Session V. Chair: Alan Downie
- Helen Julia Paul—Politicians and public reaction to the South Sea Bubble: preaching to the converted?
- Neil Guthrie—The Jacobite response to the South Sea Bubble in literature and material culture (plus illustrations)
7:00
Dinner: Casbah (2 Cathedral Street)
Saturday, 28 June
Saturday, 28 June
10:00 - 12:00Session VI. Chair: Catherine Eagleton
- Farley Grubb—Creating Maryland's paper money economy, 1720-1739: the role of power, print and markets
- Christine Desan—Reconceiving the creation story: money, credit, and the advent of capitalism
12:15 - 1:15Lunch: O'Reilly's Irish Newfoundland Pub (13 George Street)1:30 - 3:30Session VII. Chair: Joyce Goggin
- Stephen Timmons—The Bank of England and Financial Markets in the West Country during the late seventeenth-century
- Patrick Walsh—The Bubble on the periphery: Ireland and the South Sea Bubble, 1720-21
3:45 - 5:00Session VIII. Chair: Chris Fauske
- Working tea to discuss:
- colloquium results
- agenda for future research
7:00Optional dinner: Celtic Hearth (298 Water Street)