Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850

Brought to book

Print in Ireland, 1680–1784

Toby Barnard

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 an…

Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825

Useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment

Keith Manley

'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…

The Irish Hedge School and its books, 1695–1831

Antonia McManus

[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. …

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

Toby Barnard

In recent years, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and specialists in design, architecture and art have developed techniques that are now being expl…