
Reading Ireland
Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland
Raymond Gillespie(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 30. May 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-7190-8782-0 (ISBN)
Description
This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the outlook of early modern people is well known, recent years have seen significant changes in our understanding of how writing and print shaped lives, and was in turn shaped by those who appropriated the written word.
The author finds that a set of revolutions took place which transformed the lives of the Irish in unexpected ways, and that the rise of writing and the spread of print were central to an understanding of those changes which have previously only been understood to have been the result of conquest and colonisation.
This is a book which will be read not only by those interested in the Irish past but by all those who are concerned with the impact of communications media on social change. -- .
The author finds that a set of revolutions took place which transformed the lives of the Irish in unexpected ways, and that the rise of writing and the spread of print were central to an understanding of those changes which have previously only been understood to have been the result of conquest and colonisation.
This is a book which will be read not only by those interested in the Irish past but by all those who are concerned with the impact of communications media on social change. -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
365 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-8782-0 (9780719087820)
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Person
Raymond Gillespie is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at National University of Ireland, Maynooth -- .
Content
1. The social meaning of print
2. The context of print: the growth of a written culture
3. The coming of the book, 1500-1650
4. The triumph of print, 1650-1700
5. Reading for salvation
6. Reading for power
7. Reading for profit and pleasure
Appendix
Index -- .
2. The context of print: the growth of a written culture
3. The coming of the book, 1500-1650
4. The triumph of print, 1650-1700
5. Reading for salvation
6. Reading for power
7. Reading for profit and pleasure
Appendix
Index -- .