Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850

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

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

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

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