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Title The Irish book in English, 1891-2000 / edited by Clare Hutton ; co-editor, Patrick Walsh
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 747 pages) : illustrations
Series The Oxford history of the Irish book ; v. 5
Oxford history of the Irish book ; v. 5.
Contents Introduction / Clare Hutton -- Publishing the Irish cultural revival, 1891-1922 / Clare Hutton -- Reading and the Irish revival, 1891-1922 / Ben Levitas -- Publishing after partition, 1922-39 / Nicholas Allen and Terence Brown -- Reading revolutions, 1922-39 / Nichoals Allen -- 'Some measure of vocation' : publishing in Ireland, 1939-69 / Gabriel Doherty and Gillian M. Doherty -- From Tucson to television : Irish reading, 1939-69 / Frank Shovlin -- 'Our literary history in the making' : the persistence of the literary press, 1969-2000 / Siobhán Holland -- 'Anything about Ireland?' : reading in Ireland, 1969-2000 / Rónán McDonald -- An eye to business : financial and market factors, 1895-1995 / Tony Farmar -- Publishing for Catholic Ireland / Andrew McCarthy -- Funding literary enterprise and publishing in Ireland / Gillian McIntosh -- A dark chapter : censorship and the Irish writer / Donal Ó Drisceoil -- Parochial, national, and universal : the concerns of Irish regional publishing / Mary N. Harris -- The political economy of Irish school books / Patrick Walsh -- Books for Irish children / Pat Donlon -- The iconic book in Ireland, 1891-1930 / Nicola Gordon Bowe -- The Irish book in the United States : an overview / Robert Keating O'Neill -- The harp in the south : reading Ireland in Australia / Patrick Buckridge -- 'The medium is the message' : the Irish book in the informatics age / Bruce Stewart -- 'Our Irish canon your Irish canon' : Macmillan's Irish list, 1899-1968 / Warwick Gould -- M.H. Gill, later Gill and Macmillan / Gillian McIntosh -- 'This terrible struggle with want of means' : behind the scenes at the Cuala Press / Gifford Lewis -- The extraordinary history of the House of Maunsel / Clare Hutton -- Faber and Irish literature / Ruth Ling -- 'A hazardous venture' : the Dolmen Press / Derval Tubridy -- The Gallery Press / Colleen McKenna -- The Blackstaff Press / Eamonn Hughes -- Sources for Irish book history, 1891-2000 / Patrick Walsh
Summary Part of a series providing an authoritative history of the book in Ireland, this volume comprehensively outlines the history of 20th-century Irish book culture. This book embraces all the written and printed traditions and heritages of Ireland and places them in the global context of a worldwide interest in book histories
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Book industries and trade -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Book industries and trade -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Book industries and trade
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hutton, Clare, 1969-
Walsh, Patrick, 1950-
ISBN 9780191803383
0191803383
0199249113
9780199249114