Pomp and poverty
Subtitle: a history of silk in Ireland
By: Mairead Dunlevy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780300170412
Subjects: Silk industry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Silk in early Ireland; title: Silk imports from the fifteenth to early seventeenth century; title: The birth of the Irish industry : the seventeenth century; title: Development and encouragement : early eighteenth century; title: Training in design for manufacture; title: Competition and the Irish silk warehouse c. 1750-1770s; title: Poverty and rebellion, 1770-1800; title: Politics and the silk trade, 1800-1830s; title: Commercial development and design education, 1830s-1860; title: Major Irish poplin manufacturers of the mid-nineteenth century; title: Decline in a changing world, 1860-1920; title: The new states of Ireland.