Full Description
This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and language practices of the Irish population, yet the processes and full significance of these transitions remains critically under explored. This book traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience. Essays are gathered under four main areas of analysis: Literacy and Bilingualism; Periodicals and their readers; Translation, transmission and transnational literacies; Visual literacies. Through these sections, the authors offer a range of understandings of the ways in which Irish readers and writers interpreted and communicated their worlds.
List of contributors: Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, Muireann O'Cinneide, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Máire Nic an Bhaird, Liam Mac Mathúna, James Quinn, Nicola Morris, Elizabeth Tilley, Darragh Gannon, Florry O'Driscoll, Michèle Milan, Nessa Cronin and Stephanie Rains.
Contents
Section 1 Literacy and Bilingualism1 Varieties of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Niall Ó Ciosáin
2 Douglas Hyde: First Steps in the Creation of a Linguist - Liam Mac Mathúna and Máire Níc Bhaird
Section 2 Periodicals and their Readers
3 The Nation, History and the Making of a National Citizen - James Quinn
4 Watchmen to the House of Israel? Irish Methodism and the Religious Press - Nicola Morris
5 The Dublin Penny Journal and Alternative Histories - Elizabeth TilleySection 3 Translation, Transmission and Transnational Literacies
6 Room With a View: Reading Ireland in the Irish College Old Library, Paris c. 1870-1900 - Darragh Gannon
7 "May God bless you and all at home": Mid-Nineteenth-Century Irish Views on Italy As Seen Through the Letters of Albert Delahoyde, 1860-1870 - Florry O Driscoll
8 "Good Translations" or "Mental dram-drinking"? Translation and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Michèle MilanSection 4 Visual Literacies
9 From Dublin to Dehar Dun: Language, Translation and Mapping Ireland and India - Nessa Cronin
10 Reading the Hand: Palmistry, Graphology and Alternative Literacies - Stephanie Rains
