Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825

Brought to book

Print in Ireland, 1680–1784

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Brought to book considers what was written, printed, published, owned and sometimes read in Ireland between 1680 and 1784. It seeks to evaluate the ephemeral and what...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard

A guide to sources for the history of material culture in Ireland, 1500–2000

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In recent years, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and specialists in design, architecture and art have developed techniques that are now being exploited by historians. Dr Barnard provides a guide...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard

The Irish Hedge School and its books, 1695–1831

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[Now in its 4th printing.] This definitive book studies the hedge schools and texts that were common in the country for over one hundred and thirty-six years. For...
Author/Editor: Antonia McManus

Schools and schooling, 1650–2000

New perspectives on the history of education – the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures

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This collection pursues new areas of inquiry and offers new perspectives on familiar subjects in the history of education in Ireland and Europe from the seventeenth century to...
Author/Editor: James Kelly & Susan Hegarty, editors

A guide to sources for the history of Irish education, 1780–1922

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This book is an introductory guide for students and researchers in the history of Irish education from 1780–1922. The nineteenth century saw the foundation of the national school...
Author/Editor: Susan M. Parkes