Life
1943- [Isdell-Carpenter]; Oxford, MA; PhD. on Archbishop William King
and Jonathan Swift, NUI; lecturer, UCD, 1970; Dean of
the Faculty of Arts, 1987-92; University Director for Development, 1992-94;
works incl. J. M. Synge (1973); ed., Place, Personality and the Irish
Writer (1977), papers of the third annual IASAIL conference; ed. and
published on a hand press the series "Irish Writings from the Age
of Swift" (4 vols. 1972-1976); fnd. president of the Eighteenth-Century
Ireland Society and fnd. with others, Eighteenth-Century Ireland,
1986; Associate Editor of Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991),
responsible for sects. writing in and about Ireland before 1800; dir.
Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment at UCD, 1999; ed., Verse
in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland (1998); ed. John Dunton’s
The Dublin Scuffle [1699] (2000); currently working on seventeenth-century
Irish verse in English, and on Irish chapbook-verse in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries.
Works
[as Andrew P. Isdell-Carpenter,] Archbishop King and Dean Swift
[NUI Dissertation], 2 vols. (A. P. Isdell-Carpenter 1970); ed., My
Uncle John: Edward [M.] Stephens’s Life of J. M. Synge
(OUP 1974), xviii, 222pp., with 8pp. of pls. [0192117181]; sel.
& intro., Irish Writings from the Age of Swift [3-vol.
series] (Dublin: Cadenus Press 1972-74) [as infra];
,Natural Journey (Cadenus Press 1975, 20pp.; ed., Place, Personality
and the Irish Writer [Irish Literary Studies, No. 1] (Gerrards Cross:
Colin Smythe 1977), 199pp. [090107263X]; The Irish Perspective of Jonathan
Swift [Wuppertaler Hochschulreden, Bd. 13] (Wuppertal: P. Hammer [1978]),
19pp.; with Peter Fallon, sel. &. ed., The Writers: A Sense of
Ireland: New Works by 44 Irish Writers (NY: George Braziller
1980), 224pp. [0807609706]; ed., Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century
Ireland (Cork UP 1998), xx, 623pp. Also, Sybil Le Brocquy, 1892-1973
(Dublin: Dolmen Press 1976) [a commemorative pamph.].
Sel. & intro., Irish Writings from the Age of Swift [3-vol. series] (Dublin: Cadenus Press 1972-74), Vol.1: Miscellanies in Prose (1972), 63pp.; Vol.2: Miscellanies in Verse (1973), 63pp.; Vol.3: Letters to and from Persons of Quality (1974), 63pp.; Vol. IV: Archbishop [William] King's Sermon on Predestination, intro. David Berman (1976), 97pp.;
Ed. & intro., with Nicholas Canny, ‘The Early Planters: Spenser and His Contemporaries’, Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day Co. 1991), Vol. 1, pp.171-234; Intro. pp.171-74; ed. & intro., with Alan Harrison, ‘Ireland and Her Past: Topographical and Historical Writing to 1690’, FDA, Vol. 1, pp.235-73; Intro., pp.235-38); ed. & intro., ‘Jonathan Swift’, FDA, Vol. 1, pp.327-394; Intro., pp.327-30.
For contents of Place, Personality and the Irish Writer [Irish Literary Studies, No. 1] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1977), see under Peter Fallon, Rx.]
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