Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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17th-century Anglo-Irish people

Anglo-Irish people (Irish: Angla-Éireannach) denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until 1871, or to a lesser extent one of the English dissenting churches, such as the Methodist church, though some were Roman Catholics.

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  1. Bishop Berkeley

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosopher George Berkeley, one of the most significant thinkers of the 18th century.

    20 March 2014

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    Featuring: Peter Millican, Tom Stoneham, Michela Massimi

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    PhilosophyEpistemologistsIdealistsAnglican philosophersPeople educated at Kilkenny CollegeAcademics of Trinity College Dublin18th-century Irish writersEnlightenment philosophers17th-century Anglo-Irish people17th-century Anglican theologiansScholars of Trinity College DublinAlumni of Trinity College DublinPhilosophers of science18th-century Anglo-Irish people, 18th-century Irish male writers18th-century Irish philosophersEmpiricistsHistory of calculus18th-century Anglican theologians

  2. Robert Boyle

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Robert Boyle, a pioneering scientist and one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society.

    12 June 2014

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    Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Michael Hunter, Anna Marie Roos

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    ScienceFluid dynamicistsIrish Anglicans17th-century English writers17th-century Anglo-Irish peoplePeople educated at Eton CollegePhilosophers of scienceWriters about religion and science17th-century English philosophers17th-century English male writersDiscoverers of chemical elementsIndependent scientistsEnglish physicistsEnglish alchemists

  3. Swift's A Modest Proposal

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jonathan Swift's satirical 1729 pamphlet A Modest Proposal, which reveals much about attitudes to the Irish and the poor in 18th-Century Britain.

    29 January 2009

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    Featuring: John Mullan, Judith Hawley, Ian McBride

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    CultureIrish male poets18th-century English novelistsEnglish AnglicansPeople educated at Kilkenny CollegeAnglican writersEnglish political writersEnglish male short story writersNeoclassical writersEnglish fantasy writersAlumni of Hart Hall, Oxford18th-century pseudonymous writersEnglish pamphleteersEnglish male novelists18th-century Irish writers18th-century Irish novelists, 18th-century Irish poetsEnglish male poets18th-century Anglo-Irish people, 18th-century Irish male writersAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersJonathan SwiftEnglish short story writersEnglish satirists17th-century Anglo-Irish peopleAlumni of Trinity College DublinIrish satirists