Belfast and The Age of The Enlightenment
Clifton House
Wednesday 28 January, 7.00pm
Doors open 6.45pm
£6.00/£5.00 (Unwaged)
Buy TicketsThe enlightenment was a European wide voyage of intellectual discovery and liberation. Arguably in the early 18th Century an Irish dimension of this process emerged. It took on its most radical form in the Belfast of the 1780’s and 1790’s.
Major influences ranged from Francis Hutcheson who asserted the right of resistance to oppressive government, opposition to slavery, and then Thomas Paine whose Rights of Man became ‘the Koran of Belfast’.
Ideas espoused at that time and especially in relation to human rights remained unfulfilled at the time and are still relevant today.
JOHN GRAY
Belfast born John Gray is Chair of Reclaim the Enlightenment, a charity founded in 2017. He is the former Librarian of the Linen Hall Library and has written and spoken extensively on our local history, on the Labour movement, the United Irishmen and other radical causes.
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