Mary Hatfield is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.

• IntroductionMary HatfieldHappiness and the Irish Nation 1. Expressions of Joy Among Catholic, Ribbon and Hibernian Processionists During the Long Nineteenth CenturyKerron Ó Luain2. The Crimean War, 1854-6: Ireland’s Happiest Nineteenth-Century WarPaul HuddieSocial Conditions and Prescriptions for Happiness 3. ‘Money Can(’t) Buy Me…?’ Health and Wealth in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Fiction and MemoirKristina Varade4. A Consecrated Word: Happiness in the Thought of Alexander Knox (1757-1831)David McCready5. ‘Was the carver happy while he was about it?’ Trinity’s Museum Building (1853-7) and the Ruskinian Principle of HappinessAndrew Tierney6. Children’s Happiness and Unhappiness in the Irish Workhouse Institution, 1850-1914Simon GallaherCultures of Expression: Representations of Happiness 7. ‘Hope for happier days’: Happiness in the Letters between Siblings in Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Ulster FamiliesShannon Devlin8. Finding Happiness in Irish Lullabies, 1860-1910Ciara Thompson9. ‘Happiness is a warm gun’: What Were the Determinants of Happy Lives for the Irish Gentry?Ian D’alton 10. ‘To us, books were the great joy in life’: Emotional Expression in Female Reading Records in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland Mai Yatani11. ‘Hardly worth your while’: The Pursuit of Happiness in Twentieth-Century Ireland? Anne Dolan

‘[L]ively and absorbing… this volume is a brave attempt to bring together a variety of perspectives on happiness, and it contains much good and promising research.’ Caitriona Clear, Journal of British Studies

Mary Hatfield is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.

• IntroductionMary HatfieldHappiness and the Irish Nation 1. Expressions of Joy Among Catholic, Ribbon and Hibernian Processionists During the Long Nineteenth CenturyKerron Ó Luain2. The Crimean War, 1854-6: Ireland’s Happiest Nineteenth-Century WarPaul HuddieSocial Conditions and Prescriptions for Happiness 3. ‘Money Can(’t) Buy Me…?’ Health and Wealth in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Fiction and MemoirKristina Varade4. A Consecrated Word: Happiness in the Thought of Alexander Knox (1757-1831)David McCready5. ‘Was the carver happy while he was about it?’ Trinity’s Museum Building (1853-7) and the Ruskinian Principle of HappinessAndrew Tierney6. Children’s Happiness and Unhappiness in the Irish Workhouse Institution, 1850-1914Simon GallaherCultures of Expression: Representations of Happiness 7. ‘Hope for happier days’: Happiness in the Letters between Siblings in Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Ulster FamiliesShannon Devlin8. Finding Happiness in Irish Lullabies, 1860-1910Ciara Thompson9. ‘Happiness is a warm gun’: What Were the Determinants of Happy Lives for the Irish Gentry?Ian D’alton 10. ‘To us, books were the great joy in life’: Emotional Expression in Female Reading Records in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland Mai Yatani11. ‘Hardly worth your while’: The Pursuit of Happiness in Twentieth-Century Ireland? Anne Dolan

‘[L]ively and absorbing… this volume is a brave attempt to bring together a variety of perspectives on happiness, and it contains much good and promising research.’ Caitriona Clear, Journal of British Studies

Mary Hatfield is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.

• IntroductionMary HatfieldHappiness and the Irish Nation 1. Expressions of Joy Among Catholic, Ribbon and Hibernian Processionists During the Long Nineteenth CenturyKerron Ó Luain2. The Crimean War, 1854-6: Ireland’s Happiest Nineteenth-Century WarPaul HuddieSocial Conditions and Prescriptions for Happiness 3. ‘Money Can(’t) Buy Me…?’ Health and Wealth in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Fiction and MemoirKristina Varade4. A Consecrated Word: Happiness in the Thought of Alexander Knox (1757-1831)David McCready5. ‘Was the carver happy while he was about it?’ Trinity’s Museum Building (1853-7) and the Ruskinian Principle of HappinessAndrew Tierney6. Children’s Happiness and Unhappiness in the Irish Workhouse Institution, 1850-1914Simon GallaherCultures of Expression: Representations of Happiness 7. ‘Hope for happier days’: Happiness in the Letters between Siblings in Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Ulster FamiliesShannon Devlin8. Finding Happiness in Irish Lullabies, 1860-1910Ciara Thompson9. ‘Happiness is a warm gun’: What Were the Determinants of Happy Lives for the Irish Gentry?Ian D’alton 10. ‘To us, books were the great joy in life’: Emotional Expression in Female Reading Records in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland Mai Yatani11. ‘Hardly worth your while’: The Pursuit of Happiness in Twentieth-Century Ireland? Anne Dolan

‘[L]ively and absorbing… this volume is a brave attempt to bring together a variety of perspectives on happiness, and it contains much good and promising research.’ Caitriona Clear, Journal of British Studies