Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laird, Heather.

Contributor:

Roszman, Jay R.

Series:

Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Series

Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Series ; v.9

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.;)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Dwelling

Place of Publication:

Liverpool University Press 2023

Summary:

What did it mean to have an 'Irish' dwelling in the nineteenth century? How did Irish people write about, think about, visually represent or imagine what constituted home? Showcasing research from scholars based in Ireland, the United Kingdom and further afield, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to answer these questions by exploring the physicality and symbolism of Irish dwellings, and the home as a place of repose, exercise and work. Using a range of methodological approaches including history, folklore and literature, this volume offers new perspectives on the material culture of home, fictionalized homes, social housing schemes, suburban living spaces, home and social mobility, institutional living, migration and memories of the home-house, and gender and eviction. Rather than focus on the Big House, which has already received considerable scholarly attention, this volume foregrounds dwelling spaces that were especially vulnerable to economic forces: the homes of the urban and rural poor. Additionally, the book acknowledges the importance to nineteenth-century Ireland of a class that has arguably received even less attention in Irish scholarship than the poor, a rising urban/suburban middle class, exploring their impact on housing and on cultural and leisure activities.An Open Access version of Christopher Cusack's chapter '"Back into the old homestead": The Irish Cottage in Irish-American Fiction, 1861−1910' is available on the Liverpool University Press website.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction: Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Heather Laird and Jay R. Roszman)

Modernity and the Irish Cabin

1 The Nonhuman and the Irish Peasant Cabin in Nineteenth-century Culture (Maureen O'Connor)

2 'Hold manfully onto your farms': Gender and Resistance During the Irish Land War (Patrick Bethel)

3 'Back into the old homestead': The Irish Cottage in Irish-American Fiction, 1861−1873 (Christopher Cusack)

Class Mobility and Home

4 'A partition … making of it a kitchen and a bedroom': Working-class Housing in Irish Provincial Towns in the Late Nineteenth Century (Peter Connell)

5 Spreading Out: Suburbanization and Dwelling-places in Middle-class Belfast (Alice Johnson)

6 Health from Home? Home Gymnasiums in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Conor Heffernan)

7 After Castle Rackrent: The Wardlaws (1896) and Literary Responses to Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (Patrick Maurne)

Families and Intimate Spaces in Institutional Dwellings

8 The Policeman's Home: The Constabulary Barracks in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland (Brian Griffin)

9 'No relatives or anyone … to take the slightest interest in her': Insanity, Patients and their Families in the Nineteenth-century Irish Asylum (Tríona Waters)

10 Picturing Patients: Cork Street Fever Hospital, Photography and Childhood in Late Nineteenth-century Dublin (Orla Fitzpatrick)

The Material Culture of Home

11 Burying Bad Luck: Material Cultures of Magic in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Irish Houses and Farmyards (Clodagh Tait)

12 'The tailors generally went from house to house in those days': Travelling Tailors and the Making of Clothes in the Rural Irish Dwelling, 1850−1900 (Eliza McKee).

13 Walter Osborne and the Domestic Scene: Family and Professional Life in a Dublin Suburb (Kathryn Milligan)

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83553-414-7

1-83764-548-5

OCLC:

1523141021