Abstract
This essay examines the ways in which Charlotte Brooke, in her 1789 Reliques of Irish Poetry, uses the literary collection to articulate one more or less coherent (cultural) view that she derives from a variety of different texts while putting forward her own cause, that is the desire to become a recognised professional writer. Her professional deployment of a variety of discourses (sentimental, patriotic and political) and the construction of her ambivalent female persona necessitate a reconsideration of earlier scholarship which saw the Reliques in terms of Romantic cultural nationalism, rather than a female author's skilfully planned introduction to the publishing markets of both Dublin and London.
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