Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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.

• 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 BhairdSection 2 Periodicals and their Readers3 The Nation, History and the Making of a National Citizen - James Quinn4 Watchmen to the House of Israel? Irish Methodism and the Religious Press - Nicola Morris5 The Dublin Penny Journal and Alternative Histories - Elizabeth TilleySection 3 Translation, Transmission and Transnational Literacies6 Room With a View: Reading Ireland in the Irish College Old Library, Paris c. 1870-1900 - Darragh Gannon7 “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 Driscoll8 “Good Translations” or “Mental dram-drinking”? Translation and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Michèle MilanSection 4 Visual Literacies9 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

Reviews‘A cause for celebration and a strong indicator of the maturation of the field… this collection up-ends many assumptions about nineteenth-century Ireland as it grappled with literacies in both English and Irish during a century that witnessed tremendous change.’Karen Steel, Victorian Periodicals Review