Brought to book

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

Improving Ireland?

Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641–1786

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The idea of improvement featured consistently in schemes to transform Ireland into a prosperous, peaceful and English place. Two strands were especially strong: physical changes through different kinds...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard

Irish provincial cultures in the long eighteenth century

Essays for Toby Barnard

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In this book, thirteen distinguished historians of early modern Ireland recreate the lost world of those who carved out a middle position between the aristocracy and the tenantry...
Author/Editor: Raymond Gillespie & R.F. Foster, editors

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