Dr. Amy Prendergast

• Amy Prendergast, 'The drooping genius of our Isle to raise': the Moira House salon and its role in Gaelic cultural revival, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 26, 2011, p95 - 114Journal Article, 2011, DOI
• Irish literary salons of the long eighteenth century, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2013, [Amy Prendergast ]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013
• Prendergast, Amy, Glossing the Diary: Women Writing for Posterity, the Case of Elizabeth Edgeworth (1781-1800), Life Writing, 19, (2), 2022, p277-294Journal Article, 2022, DOI
• Prendergast, Amy, A Winter in Bath, 1796-97: Life Writing and the Irish Adolescent Self, European Journal of Life Writing, 10, 2021, p18-40Journal Article, 2021, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• Prendergast, Amy, "Open[ing] the Flood-gate of literature to her own Sex": Elizabeth Griffith, translation, transmission, and cultural transfer, Women's Writing, 27, (2), 2020, p184-202Journal Article, 2020, DOI
• PRENDERGAST, AMY, `Members of the republick of letters": Maria Edgeworth, literary sociability, and intellectual pursuits in the Irish midlands, c.1780-1820, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 31, (1), 2016, p29-46Journal Article, 2016, DOI
• Transnational Influence and Exchange: The Intersections between Irish and French Sentimental Novels in, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp189-206 , [Prendergast, Amy]Book Chapter, 2020, DOI
• The diary (1689-1719) and accounts (1704-1717) of Élie Bouhéreau, Marie Léoutre, Jane McKee, Jean-Paul Pittion & Amy Prendergast, Dublin:, IMC, 2019, -Critical Edition (Book), 2019, URL
• Amy Prendergast, Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century, 2015Book, 2015, DOI
• Amy Prendergast, Mere Bagatelles: Women's Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810, UK, Liverpool University Press, 2024, 1 - 256ppBook, 2024, DOI , URL
• The Envoy's Wife: Diplomatic Sociability, Family, and Loss in the Diary (1689-1719) of Élie Bouhéreau in, editor(s)Amy Boylan and Janée Allsman , Élie Bouhéreau The collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee, 2025, [Amy Prendergast]Book Chapter, 2025, URL
• France and French Writing in, editor(s)Michael Griffin and David O'Shaughnessy , Oliver Goldsmith in Context, 2024, [Amy Prendergast]Book Chapter, 2024

• Dr Brandon Yen and Amy Prendergast, 'Ireland and the English Lake Poets', 2019, -Exhibition, URL
• Amy Prendergast, Rational Creatures, Dublin Review of Books, 2024Review Article
• Amy Prendergast, Maria Edgeworth at 250, Books Ireland, (377), 2018, p23-Review Article

My research expertise in the long eighteenth century centres on the areas of women's writing, life writing, writing from Ireland, and Franco-Irish connections and cultural transfers. My second monograph, Mere Bagatelles: Women's Diaries from Ireland 1760-1810, was published in Liverpool University Press in October 2024. It is a fully open access work, available to download from the publisher website and from the OAPEN library. Engaging with overlooked archival diaries by women across Ireland, it opens new avenues concerning authorship and female agency, transforming our understanding of women's contributions to literature and cultural movements. The entirely new corpus allows for the emergence of new perspectives on the self during the period and prompts a re-evaluation of the contours of Irish writing. Amy Culley (University of Lincoln) described it as being 'meticulously researched and the extensive archival material is sensitively and skilfully interpreted to provide rare insights regarding women"s lives and writing My first monograph was completed during an IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship held at TCD. Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century(Palgrave, 2015) offered the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France. It was positively reviewed in European Romantic Review; The British Association for Romantic Studies Review; Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies; New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century; Reviews in History; Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Eric Gidal, European Romantic Review, wrote, `Prendergast brings an impressive amount of archival research to bear upon the story she tells, and anyone seeking to understand how salon culture crossed the Irish Sea will need to consult this work', and Rebecca Bar, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, that `In its sensitive recuperation of a past that is neglected and, at times, seemingly deliberately obliterated, Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland will be of interest to Irish historians and literary scholars alike.' I am currently co-editor, with Lucy Cogan (UCD) of a special issue of the journal, Women's Writing. This will be the first special issue of Women's Writing dedicated to Irish writers, and we have curated submissions on innovative topics from the early modern period to the early-twentieth century. I was co-editor of The Diary and Accounts of Élie Bouhéreau (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2019), which I worked on during my time as a Research Associate at Marsh's Library. It has been described as 'an impressively translated and edited edition which is also handsomely produced' wherein 'Readers will appreciate the high quality of the translation, editing, annotation and indexing.' (Martin Greene, Dublin Review of Books). Recent articles have appeared in The European Journal for Life Writing (2021); Life Writing (2020); and Women's Writing (2020). In addition to my large-scale research projects, I have contributed to various edited collections, including several from Cambridge University Press, and one from Four Courts Press.

Languages and literature, History, Heritage and Archaeology,

• Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship (NUIG) 2017
• NUI Entrance Scholarship 2003
• American Society Eighteenth-Century Studies, Elias Irish-American Fellowship 2017
• Department for Employment and Learning Studentship (respectfully declined) 2008
• French Government Medal and NUI prize for proficiency in French 2007
• International Society Eighteenth-Century Studies, International Seminar 2017
• PRTLI Government of Ireland Doctoral Scholarship 2008
• Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Individual Fellowship 2021
• Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Travel Award 2015
• Irish Embassy to Britain Bursary for travel to Warwick University 2012
• Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship 2013
• Huntington Library Fellowship [respectfully declined] 2017
• University Scholar (NUIG) 2005
• Dr H. H. Stewart Literary Prize for French 2004
• Honorable Mention for Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature (ACIS) for Mere Bagatlles 2025

• Committee member of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Present

• Secretary of Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society 2021
• Expert reader for proposed titles for Oxford University Press and Boydell & Brewer. 2023
• Peer reviewer for Cultural and Social History, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE), Renaissance Studies. 2012
• External Examiner for Doctoral thesis, University of Melbourne. March 2025
• Editorial board member for the Élie Bouhéreau Diary project, Marsh's Library, Dublin. 2015
• Member of Prize Jury for ASECS Elias Irish-American Fellowship