Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Rebecca Anne Barr · Sarah-Anne Buckley · Muireann O’Cinneide
Jun 2019 · Liverpool University Press
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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.
About the author
Rebecca Anne Barr is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College.
Sarah-Anne Buckley is Lecturer in History at the National University of Ireland Galway.
Muireann O’Cinneide is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland Galway.
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