Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DIARIES (Textuality, Place, and the Self: Reimagining Life Writing through Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1725-1810)

There has been an upsurge of scholarly research devoted to life writing in recent years, given the contemporary world’s fascination with ideas of self-presentation and curation. However, there is a dearth of work on the topic regarding Ireland and the long eighteenth...