Reading Irish histories
Subtitle: texts, contexts, and memory in modern Ireland
By: Lawrence W. McBride, editor.
Contributors: McBride, Lawrence W., 1945-
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Books and reading -- Ireland -- History.; Nationalism -- Ireland -- History.; Historiography -- Ireland.; Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.; Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Ireland -- Historiography.
Description: "This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how a variety of Irish historical narratives were delivered through the written word, with attention paid to both the media and the message, as well as to how readers might have reacted to these texts. The collection supplements the research of Irish Studies scholars engaged in such new fields of inquiry as the manufacturing and persistence of historical memory and the history of the book, and the contributors also present new information to the more traditional fields of literary biography and political and social history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Academies of nationality': the reading room and Irish national movements, 1838-1905 / Paul Townend; title: The ritualization of newspaper reading and political consciousness: the role of newspapers in the Irish land war / Anne E. Kane; title: University education, history, and the hierarchy / Colin Barr; title: Young readers and the learning and teaching of Irish history, 1870-1922 / Lawrence W. McBride; title: 'To mould an important body of shepherds': the Gaelic summer colleges and the teaching of Irish history / Timothy G. McMahon; title: J.A. Froude's use of history and his Irish prescription / Eileen Reilly; title: Nobler forms: Standish James O'Grady's History of Ireland and the Irish Literary Revival / Gregory Castle; title: Reading the Irish future in the Celtic past: T.W. Rolleston and the politics of myth / José Lanters; title: Storming Stepaside: the military education of the Irish volunteers / Ben Novick; title: History, memory and education: teaching the Irish story / Seán Farrell Moran.