The Moore Letters

The Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts and Humanities Research Institute

A discussion on the Moore Letters Project organised by Prof David Dickson (TCD) and Prof Breandan Mac Suibhne (University of Galway).

Trinity Long Room Hub

A discussion on the Moore Letters Project organised by the School of Histories and Humanities in association with Trinity College Library, University of Galway and the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Moore Letters Project is led by Professor David Dickson (TCD) and Professor Breandán Mac Suibhne (University of Galway). It has involved the transcription of an archive of some 830 letters written by members of two related families, the Moores and Hughes who resided in Derry and Baltimore, and spans the years 1798 to 1845. Although there are over 80 correspondents, the bulk of this huge collection consists of a flow of letters between eight principals (some based in Derry, some in Maryland), with several of them continuing to correspond for over forty years. The collection is highly unusual both in its extent and in being a two-way transatlantic exchange of news and opinion. Privately owned until now, it is being prepared for full publication. The collection’s publication will inform research on the practices of long-distance letter-writing; on virtual diasporic communities; on family and gender relations in early nineteenth-century Ireland and America; and on the disappearance of Irish Presbyterian radicalism after 1798. This discussion will explore the history of the collection, the social and cultural world it documents and the current plans for publication and dissemination, and it will provide an opportunity to discuss the implications for research into such topics as the history of the letter, the exodus from pre-Famine Ireland and the shaping of bourgeois culture across two worlds.Speakers:Professor Claire Connolly (School of English, University College Cork)Dr Jane Maxwell (Manuscripts Curator, TCD Library)Professor Ciaran O’Neill (Deputy Director Trinity Long Room Hub, Department of History TCD)Professor Amy Prendergast (School of English, TCD) Professor Breandán Mac Suibhne (Acadamh na hOllscolaiochta Gaeilge, University of Galway, and Project Co-editor)Professor David Dickson (Department of History TCD, Trinity Long Room Hub Emeritus Research Fellow, and Project Co-editor)

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