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The Society's journal, Irish Economic and Social History, has been published annually since 1974 and "has given a marked impetus
to professional publication in the field." It comprises articles and shorter
notes on all aspects of Irish economic and social history from the Middle
Ages to the present day; a document - and - sources article; abstracts
of recent postgraduate theses; and a bibliography of writings on Irish
economic and social history appearing in the previous year. Recent articles
include:
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Articles intended for consideration for publication, and prepared in accordance with the contributor's notes, should be sent, in triplicate to:
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The Editors |
Please also see our information on contributing to the journal.
Editors
Professor Sean J. Connolly
School of History
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast
BT9 1NN
Northern Ireland
Dr Neal Garnham
Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages
University of Ulster
Magee Campus
Londonderry
BT48 7JL
Northern Ireland
Dr Enda Delaney (Business Editor)
University of Aberdeen
Assistant Editor
Dr. Matthew Stout
History Department
St. Patrick's College
Drumcondra
Dublin 9
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Published by the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, this pamphlet series offers a concise, readable and affordable overview of key themes and periods in Irish history. Each is written by a leading expert in the field, specifically with Leaving Certificate, A Level, and first year undergraduate students in mind. The expanding series has won wide critical acclaim, and is already extensively used in schools and universities in Ireland and elsewhere.
Studies in Irish Economic and Social History can be purchased from BooksIreland.org.uk, most good bookshops, or may be ordered from the distributors by downloading this order form and sending it, with payment enclosed, to:
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The experience of reading links books with people. This book explores how Irish people in the past accessed and responded to books, newspapers, and other print media. The history of reading provides insight into how values and attitudes were formed, nurtured, communicated, and interpreted. These essays will appeal to educationalists, social, cultural, and religious historians and especially to those interested both in the history of books and in the histories of people who read books.
Introduction: The experience of reading, Bernadette Cunningham.
Reading the Bible in seventeenth-century Ireland, Raymond Gillespie.
Reading theology within the community of believers: James Ussher's Directions, Elizabethanne Boran.
Reading in eighteenth-century Ireland: public and private pleasures, Toby Barnard.
Women and reading in eighteenth-century Ireland, Mary Kennedy.
The reading habits of a Georgian gentleman, John Templeton, and the book collections of the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, John Killen.
The Kilkenny Circulating-Library Society and the growth of reading rooms in the nineteenth-century Ireland, M-L Leggs.
Fiction available to and written for cottagers and their childern, Rolf Loeber & Magda Stouthamer-Loeber.
Book learning: the experience of reading int he national school, 1831-1930, John Logan.
The Experience of Reading: Irish Historical Perspectives may be purchased from good bookshops or, alternatively you may print and complete this order form (html) (pdf).
For more information about the society:
Membership Secretary
ESHSI
Department of Modern History
Trinity College
Dublin
Republic of Ireland
