Reading Ireland : print, reading, and social change in early modern Ireland / Raymond Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillespie, Raymond, author.

Series:

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain.

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Ireland--History--16th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--Ireland--History--17th century.

Printing--Ireland--History--16th century.

Printing.

Printing--Ireland--History--17th century.

Social change--Ireland--History--16th century.

Social change.

Social change--Ireland--History--17th century.

Ireland--Social conditions--16th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--Social conditions--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traditionally our understanding of that world has been filtered through the lenses of war, plantation and colonisation. This book explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. In economic terms, the technology of print was of limited significance in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland, employing no more than a handful of individuals on a full-time basis. It uses the perspective of the world of print as a vantage point from which to observe the shifts in early modern Irish society.

Contents:

The conditions of print

The development of print

The strategies of reading.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 7, 2026).

ISBN:

1-84779-432-7

OCLC:

818847451