Research Catalog

Title

Oral and print cultures in Ireland, 1600-1900 / Marc Caball & Andrew Carpenter, editors.

Publication

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Caball, Marc.
• Carpenter, Andrew.

Description

144 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In charting previously unexplored patterns of communicative practice, these essays by leading experts examine the interchange between written and verbal cultures in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century."--Jacket.

Subject

• Irish literature > History and criticism > 17th century
• Oral tradition > Ireland > History
• Written communication > Ireland > History
• Printing > Ireland > History

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Intersection between oral tradition, manuscript, and print cultures in Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish poetry (1789) / Lesa Ní Mhunghaile -- Garbling and jumbling : printing from dictation in eighteenth-century Limerick / Andrew Carpenter -- Lost in translation : reading Keating's Foras feasa ar Éireann, 1635-1847 / Marc Caball -- "And this deponent further sayeth" : orality, print and the 1641 depositions / Marie-Louise Coolahan -- Gaelic texts and English script / Nicholas Williams -- "James Cleland his book" : the library of a small farming family in early nineteenth-century Co. Down / John Moulden -- Reading and orality in early nineteenth-century Ulster poetry : James Orr and his contemporaries / Linde Lunney.

ISBN

• 9781846821950 (hbk.)
• 1846821959 (hbk.)

OCLC

318410056

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library