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The Ephemeral Eighteenth-Century
This history of printed ephemera's rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of 'disposable' printed items.
Civil and Strange
This refreshingly mature debut novel transports readers to a changing Ireland through the interconnected stories of 38-year-old Ellen; her uncle Matt, a local farmer; and widowed Beatrice, each at a crossroads in their respective lives.
The Playbill and Its People
In 2007 a librarian at the Library and Archives Canada Library came across a fragile sheet of paper inserted inside a book. It was the playbill advertising an evening of entertainment that had taken place halfway across the world, over two centuries before. The playbill is the earliest printed document in the history of Australia to be so far discovered and in 2011 it was included on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. As a piece of ephemera the playbill offers tantalizing glimpses of the social and cultural life of the early colony. What is the significance of the plays performed? Who were the players and their audiences? What kind of theatre did they play in? Gillian Russell answers all of these questions and more, in this fascinating account of the history and significance of the playbill.
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.
Snapshot Stories
Photographers often depict Ireland with bucolic rural landscapes, but during the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras to create and curate photographs revealing more complex and diverse images of Ireland. Snapshot Stories Uses diverse photographic archives, both professional and personal, to explore these stories.
Wherever Green Is Worn
A sweeping history of all the places the Irish went when they left Ireland by one of the best known Irish historians in the world.
Reading Robert Burns
Robert Burns is Scotland’s greatest cultural icon. Yet, despite his continued popularity, critical work has been compromised by the myths that have built up around him. McGuirk focuses on Burns’s poems and songs, analysing his use of both vernacular Scots and literary English to provide a unique reading of his work.
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Field Day Review
Talking about contemporary Ireland, this work also looks at literary criticism, fiction, history, politics, and art."
Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England
Uses the collections of ephemera popular in the late seventeenth century as a way to understand the reading habits, publishing strategies and thought processes of late Stuart print culture. Cheap' genres of print such as ballads, almanacs and playing cards were part of everyday life in seventeenth-century society - ubiquitous and disposable. Toward the end of the century, however, individuals began to preserve, arrange and display articles of cheap print within carefully curated collections. What motivated this sudden urge to preserve the ephemeral? This book answers that question by analysing the social, political and intellectual factors behind the formation of cheap print collections, how...
