Élie Bouhéreau

Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825

Useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment

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'Reading is for the improvement of the understanding' wrote John Locke, and this sentiment fostered the idea of 'mutual improvement' in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It...
Author/Editor: Keith Manley

Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850

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This volume explores the world of book collecting in early modern Ireland and Britain. It investigates the modalities of collecting texts, both manuscript and printed, and draws attention...
Author/Editor: Elizabethanne Boran, editor

Botany and Gardens in Early Modern Ireland

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This beautifully illustrated book explores sources for botany and gardening in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. It investigates the contributions of individuals such as Philip O’Sullivan Beare and Thomas...
Author/Editor: Elizabethanne Boran, E. Charles Nelson & Emer Lawlor, editors

Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Novelty, experiment and widening horizons

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Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explored, the novelties in the domestic sphere and...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard & Alison FitzGerald, editors

Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800

Essays in honour of Jacqueline R. Hill

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Political culture is not an idea that many historians of Ireland have engaged with, preferring more straightforward ways of thinking about the distribution of political power through institutions...
Author/Editor: Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin

A model of Victorian craftsmanship

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This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard which it set in the use of Irish decorative...
Author/Editor: Christine Casey & Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, editors

Michael Healy, 1873-1941

An Túr Gloine’s stained glass pioneer

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This book tells the story of the reclusive stained glass artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, established the bar...
Author/Editor: David Caron