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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 11 June 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Thursday 11 June 2026\, for a Morning of the Hill group visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-11-june-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:Lecture | Imagining Independence: Ulster\, Ireland and America in 1776
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Ian McBride exploring the influence of the Scots-Irish\, particularly the enlightenment philosopher Francis Hutcheson and his students\, on the American Revolution\, and tracing the impact of American independence on Ulster. \n\n\n\n\n\nDate & Time\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nAdmission is free\, with booking essential by e-mailing: admin@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImagining Independence: Ulster\, Ireland and America in 1776\n\n\n\nThe American Revolution transformed the political imagination of Irish people\, especially in Ulster\, where ties with the colonies were closest.  \n\n\n\nThe Rev. William Campbell of Armagh described the pride of Irish Presbyterians when they heard that their relatives composed ‘the flower of Washington’s army … still\, as their fathers had been\, the determined enemies of tyranny and arbitrary power\, which ever pursued them\, and by a strange fatality from the same quarter\, England’.  \n\n\n\nContemporaries experienced the War of American Independence as a civil war\, dividing a proud transatlantic community that regarded itself as Protestant\, maritime\, commercial and uniquely free.  \n\n\n\nThis lecture begins by exploring the influence of the Scots-Irish\, particularly the enlightenment philosopher Francis Hutcheson and his students\, on the American Revolution. It then traces the impact of American independence on Ulster\, focusing on the Presbyterians who formed the backbone of the Irish Volunteers raised in 1778\, and who went on to found the Society of United Irishmen \n\n\n\nA lecture in a series of six\, Armagh and USA 250\, exploring intellectual and historical links between Armagh and early America\, highlighting thinkers such as Francis Hutcheson\, David Hume\, John Locke and Thomas Paine. \n\n\n\nOrganised by Armagh Robinson Library\, Armagh County Museum and Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library & Archive. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker | lan McBride\n\n\n\nIan McBride was born in Keady and educated in Armagh. Since 2016 he has been Foster Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford.  \n\n\n\nHis books include The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology (1997) and Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century (1998)\, both short-listed for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize; and Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (2009)\, a ‘book of the year’ in History Today and the Spectator. He recently finished a book entitled The Origins of the Northern Ireland Peace Process\, which will be published by the Royal Irish Academy in November this year. He is currently writing a book on Irish Catholics under the Penal Laws\, based largely on archival sources in Rome.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/imagining-independence-ulster-ireland-and-america-in-1776/
LOCATION:Armagh Robinson Library\, 43 Abbey Street\, Armagh\, BT61 7DY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Exhibition | Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World : Gulliver's Travels at 300
DESCRIPTION:2026 marks the 300th anniversary of the first edition of Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. This work\, written by Jonathan Swift\, is commonly known as Gulliver’s Travels. \n\n\n\nThe first edition of Gulliver’s Travels was published on 28 October 1726. It sold out within a week\, and within two months a second and third edition were printed. The work was the talk of the town. \n\n\n\nThe Library is very proud to own Jonathan Swift’s own large paper copy of that first edition. This copy contains annotations by Swift’s own hand. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition explores Gulliver’s Travels as a commentary on 18th century society\, politics\, science\, education\, and human nature. \n\n\n\nIt also takes into consideration the pitfalls of the publishing process at the time\, and the consequences of Swift’s methods.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/exhibition-travels-into-several-remote-nations-of-the-world-gullivers-travels-at-300/
CATEGORIES:Event,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 17 September 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Thursday 17 September 2026\, due to the quarterly Governors and Guardians meeting taking place in the Long Room.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-library-17-september-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure Library 26 November 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Thursday 26 November 2026\, due to the quarterly meeting  of the Governors and Guardians.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-library-26-november-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:Rokeby Lecture 2026 | Gulliver’s Travels Now
DESCRIPTION:The Library will host the 2026 Rokeby Lecture on Thursday 26 November 2026 at 7.30pm at the start of this year’s Armagh’s Georgian Festival. \n\n\n\nIn this year’s Rokeby Lecture\, Brean Hammond\, Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature\,  asks what is the continuing significance of Gulliver’s Travels and indeed of literary satire\, now? \n\n\n\n\n\nAdmission is free with donations to the Library most welcome. Booking is essential by e-mailing admin@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk or by telephoning 028 37523142. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Swift’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World\, better known as Gulliver’s Travels\, was published in London by Benjamin Motte on 28 October 1726.  \n\n\n\nThis edition was a bitter disappointment to Swift both for its carelessness and because it contained altered and omitted passages. An early witness to Swift’s unhappiness is the large-paper copy on permanent display in the Long Room in the Armagh Robinson Library that is believed to have been annotated by Swift himself.  \n\n\n\nIn 1735\, Dublin publisher George Faulkner brought out a new version as part of a complete edition of Swift’s writings that promised to set the text to rights. \n\n\n\nWhere\, then\, is there a more appropriate venue for a lecture on Gulliver’s Travels? But why lecture on it at all? Why\, 300 years later\, are we still reading it? What might it have to say to the reader who picks it up for the first time in 2026? In this year’s Rokeby Lecture\, Brean Hammond asks what is the continuing significance of Gulliver’s Travels and indeed of literary satire\, now? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nBrean Hammond is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham. Amongst his most significant book publications are Professional Imaginative Writing in England 1670-1740 (Oxford University Clarendon Press\, 1997)\, Double Falsehood (The Arden Shakespeare\, 2010)\, Jonathan Swift (Irish Academic Press\, 2010) and Tragicomedy (Methuen\, 2021).  \n\n\n\nHe has written many articles on Jonathan Swift including\, most recently\, contributions to The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels(CUP\, 2024) and Jonathan Swift in Context (CUP\, 2024). He also writes prose fiction and theatre pieces. His music-theatre play Master Byrd has been widely performed in England and overseas. In 2026 it can be seen at the Stour Festival and at the GuernseyMusic Festival with music provided by the acclaimed ensemble Stile Antico.  
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/rokeby-lecture-2026-gullivers-travels-now/
CATEGORIES:Event,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Georgian Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:Armagh Robinson Library & No 5 Vicars’ Hill will be open for the Georgian Festival on Saturday 28th November and Sunday 29th November 2026. \n\n\n\n\nSat 28 November from 12pm to 5pm\n\n\n\nSun 29 November from 2pm to 5pm\n\n\n\n\nAll events are drop in – no booking required – free of charge\, donations welcome. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nLibrary staff and volunteers will be to answer any questions about the Library’s treasures. Both the Library and No 5 Vicars’ Hill will also have Georgian Living History Interpreters present. \n\n\n\nIn the Library\, we will have a caricaturist in the Library on the Saturday afternoon\, and a silhouette cutter on the Sunday afternoon.   \n\n\n\nIn No 5 Vicars’ Hill\, we will have a wax sealing activity on Saturday\, highlighting its early use as a registry.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/georgian-festival-2026/
CATEGORIES:Event
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