Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Irish Penny Journal
Author: The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 14, October 3, 1840
Author: VariousPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
The Irish Penny Journal' is one of the more substantial Irish penny magazines of the nineteenth century. It is populist in its approach, covering a diverse range of material, including historical anecdotes, short stories, poems, fables and proverbs. This journal would be of interest to those researching Irish literature and folklore. (courtesy: Jstor)
Irish Penny Journal
Author: Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement
Author: Helen O'ConnellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199286469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This is the first study of Irish improvement fiction, a neglected genre of nineteenth-century literary, social, and political history.Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement shows how the fiction of Mary Leadbeater, Charles Bardin, Martin Doyle, and William Carleton attempted to lure Irish peasants and landowners away from popular genres such as fantasy, romance, and 'radical' political tracts as well as 'high' literary and philosophical forms of enquiry. These writersattempted to cultivate a taste for the didactic tract, an assertively realist mode of representation. Accordingly, improvement fiction laboured to demonstrate the value of hard work, frugality, and sobriety in a rigorously realistic idiom, representing the contentment that inheres in a plain social order free ofexcess and embellishment. Improvement discourse defined itself in opposition to the perceived extremism of revolutionary politics and literary writing, seeking (but failing) to exemplify how both political discontent and unhappiness could be offset by a strict practicality and prosaic realism. This book demonstrates how improvement reveals itself to be a literary discourse, enmeshed in the very rhetorical abyss it sought to escape. In addition, the proudly liberal rhetoric of improvement isshown to be at one with the imperial discourse it worked to displace.Helen O'Connell argues that improvement discourse is embedded in the literary and cultural mainstream of modern Ireland and has hindered the development of intellectual and political debate throughout this period. These issues are examined in chapters exploring the career of William Carleton; peasant 'orality'; educational provision in the post-Union period; the Irish language; secret society violence; Young Ireland nationalism; and the Irish Revival.
The Life of William Carleton
Author: William CarletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Life of William Carleton being his autobiography and letters and an account of his life and writings, from the point at which the autobiography breaks off, by David J. O'Donoghue
Author: David J. O'DonoghueThe Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV
Author: James H. MurphyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198187319
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Volume IV: The Irish Book in English 1800-1891 details the story of the book in Ireland during the nineteenth century, when Ireland was integrated into the United Kingdom. The chapters in this volume explore book production and distribution and the differing of ways in which publishing existed in Dublin, Belfast, and the provinces.
The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Author: Elizabeth TilleyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030300730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than defeated by the political and social upheaval of the century. Titles examined include: The Irish Magazine, and Monthly Asylum for Neglected Biography and The Irish Farmers’ Journal, and Weekly Intelligencer; The Dublin University Magazine; Royal Irish Academy Transactions and Proceedings and The Dublin Penny Journal; The Irish Builder (1859-1979); domestic titles from the publishing firm of James Duffy; Pat and To-Day’s Woman. The Appendix consists of excerpts from a series entitled ‘The Rise and Progress of Printing and Publishing in Ireland’ that appeared in The Irish Builder from July of 1877 to June of 1878. Written in a highly entertaining, anecdotal style, the series provides contemporary information about the Irish publishing industry.
The Irish Literary Inquirer
Author: John PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"Notes on authors, books and printing in Ireland, biographical and bibliographical.
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature
Author: Cóilín ParsonsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191080357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism lies in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity. The Ordnance Survey instituted a practice of depicting the country as modern, fragmented, alienated, and troubled, both diagnosing and representing a landscape burdened with the paradoxes of colonial modernity. Subsequent literature returns in varying ways, both imitative and combative, to the complex representational challenge that the Survey confronts and seeks to surmount. From a colonial mapping project to an engine of nationalist imagining, and finally a framework by which to evade the claims of the postcolonial nation, the Ordnance Survey was a central imaginative source of what makes Irish modernist writing both formally innovative and politically challenging. Drawing on literary theory, studies of space, the history of cartography, postcolonial theory, archive theory, and the field Irish Studies, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature paints a picture of Irish writing deeply engaged in the representation of a multi-layered landscape.