This collection of essays is published in association with the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland; subjects examined include philologists and universities in Ireland and Germany; Fenianism; mass literacy; Irish reactions to the Franco-Prussian war, 1870-1.
Leon Litvack is reader in Victorian Studies, QUB and co-editor of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (FCP, 2000). Colin Graham is lecturer in English, NUIM. Interested in 19th-century Ireland? Then visit The Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland (http://www.ssnci.com/home), a society seeking to promote research into Nineteenth-Century Ireland and to foster an inter-disciplinary approach to Nineteenth-Century Irish studies. Membership is open to scholars of all countries and from all disciplines.