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Manuscripts and ghosts

Manuscripts and ghosts

Essays on the transmission of medieval and early renaissance literature

John Scattergood

This collection of essays which concentrates mainly on the late medieval period in England, explores how manuscript books were made, who made them, who owned th…
Occasions for writing

Occasions for writing

Essays on medieval and renaissance literature, politics and society

John Scattergood

In 1974, in an introduction to Ben Jonson’s poetry, Thom Gunn wrote: ‘all poetry is occasional: whether the occasion is an external event like a birthday or a d…
Culture and society in early modern Breifne/Cavan

Culture and society in early modern Breifne/Cavan

Brendan Scott, editor

The Breifne region of south Ulster/north Connacht (roughly, modern-day Counties Cavan and Leitrim), has been a traditional buffer zone throughout the late medie…
Piers Plowman and the Poor

Piers Plowman and the Poor

Anne M. Scott

This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of medieval literature in general, and Piers Plowman in particular, as well as to cultural historians of …
Young Irelands

Young Irelands

Studies in children's literature

Mary Shine Thompson, editor

The essays in this book, the fourth in the Studies in Children’s Literature Series, examine how various texts read by children since the eighteenth century refl…
Divided worlds

Divided worlds

Studies in children's literature

Mary Shine Thompson & Valerie Coghlan, editors

This volume, the third collection of studies in children's literature, explores the political, social and cultural divisions that dominate children's books, ran…
The Parson's revels

The Parson's revels

by William Dunkin

Catherine Skeen, editor

William Dunkin (1705–65) is the most undeservedly neglected of eighteenth-century Irish poets. Swift called him ‘the best English poet in the Kingdom’ and his c…
The correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818–1841

The correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818–1841

Mary C. Sullivan, editor

This is a critical edition of over 320 extant letters written by, to, or about her in her lifetime, and drawn together in one volume for the first time. It show…
The Irish Revival reappraised

The Irish Revival reappraised

Betsey Taylor FitzSimon & James H. Murphy, editors

This volume consists of the proceedings of the tenth international conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-century Ireland, held in Dublin in June…
Dublin in 1707

Dublin in 1707

A year in the life of the city

Brendan Twomey

What happened in Dublin in 1707? At first glance – not much. But initial impressions can be misleading - the legacy of the decisions reached of 1707 persist to …