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Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… Museum, 1880,1113.3089. 1 . 'Gaeltacht' is the area of Ireland where many people spoke Irish (Irish Gaelic) as a first language. London Social Circles and Theatres Macklin was born in a poor rural Irish-speaking and Catholic community on … of the secret and widespread human desire among actors to metamorphose oneself, to utterly change one’s ego, name, language, faith, physical appearance, social circles and loyalties. His attempt at transmogrification is rooted in his …
Anglo-Irishness | Charity | Debate | Enlightenment | Ireland | Theatre
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William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… praised by eighteenth-century moral sense philosophers: ‘his kind construction of doubtful actions, his charitable language (…), his thorough forgetfulness of little affronts, were fruits of that general benevolence which continually …
Abolition | Activism | Benevolence | Charity | Evangelicalism | Friendship | Philanthropy | Religion | Slavery
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