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Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland

Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland

Gillespie, Raymond

Paperback

Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryIrish History

ISBN10: 0719087821
ISBN13: 9780719087820
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: May 30 2012
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the outlook of early modern people is well known, recent years have seen significant changes in our understanding of how writing and print shaped lives, and was in turn shaped by those who appropriated the written word.

The author finds that a set of revolutions took place which transformed the lives of the Irish in unexpected ways, and that the rise of writing and the spread of print were central to an understanding of those changes which have previously only been understood to have been the result of conquest and colonisation.

This is a book which will be read not only by those interested in the Irish past but by all those who are concerned with the impact of communications media on social change.

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