Visual, Material and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Ciara Breathnach, Catherine Lawless

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846829017
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Art

This collection emanates from the 2008 Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conference. Contents: Catherine Marshall (IMMA), Fine art and the Great Famine; Niamh O'Sullivan (NCAD), High art and popular culture, Dublin 1821; Philip McEvansoneya (TCD), The reliquary of St Lachtin's arm in 1884; Elizabeth Boyle (U Cambridge), Margaret Stokes and medieval Irish art; Catherine Lawless (UL), Saints and representations; Leon Litvack (QUB), James Robinson's The death of Chatterton; Justin Carville (IADT), The search for photographic 'types'; Virginia Crossman (Oxford Brookes), Irish poor law in the post-Famine period; Olivier Coquelin (U Western Brittany), Mitchel's Jail Journal and Davitt's Leaves from a prison diary; Carla King (St Pat's, DCU), Davitt and the press; Maxime Leroy (U Mulhouse), Samuel Lover's Handy Andy; Robin J. Kavanagh (NUIM), Irish religious periodicals; Felix M. Larkin (ind.), Thomas Sexton, W.H. Brayden and the Freeman's Journal; Patrick Maume (RIA), Margaret Cusack and Ultramontane print culture; Kiera Lindsey (U Melbourne), Sydney 1844, Lanty O'Liffey and The currency lass; Pat Naughtin (U Melbourne), The Melbourne Advocate, 1868-1900; Sean O Duinnsleibhe (UCC), Daibhi de Barra's translations; Sarah Roddy (QUB), Guides for Irish emigrants by clergymen, c.1830-82.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Other books in this series
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of abbreviations
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• 1. History and memorials: fine art and the Great Famine in Ireland
• 2. Troubled waters: high art and popular culture, Dublin, 1821
• 3. ‘… merely an antiquarian curiosity’: the purchase of the reliquary of St Lachtin’s arm in 1884
• 4. From the Comerford Crown to the Repeal Cap: fusing the Irish harp symbol with eastern promise in the nineteenth century
• 5. Margaret Stokes (1832-1900) and the study of medieval Irish art in the nineteenth century
• 6. Devotion and representation in nineteenth-century Ireland
• 7. Rome and Kenmare: Margaret Cusack and Ultramontane print culture
• 8. Pictures of piety and impropriety: Irish religious periodicals of the 1830s
• 9. Text and illustrations in Samuel Lover’s Handy Andy
• 10. From painting to photograph: James Robinson’s The Death of Chatterton
• 11. Reisting vision: photography, anthropology and the production of race in Ireland
• 12. Two visions of Irish republicanism drawn up in captivity: John Mitchel’s Jail Journal and Michael Davitt’s Leaves From a Prison Diary
• 13. ‘Always with a pen in his hand …’: Michael Davitt and the press
• 14. Sources for the history of the Irish poor law in the post-Famine period
• 15. Two gentlemen of the Freeman: Thomas Sexton, W.H. Brayden and the Freeman’s Journal, 1892-1916
• 16. The Melbourne Advocate, 1868-1900: bastion of Irish nationalism in colonial Victoria
• 17. A new stage for the stage Irish: Sydney, 1844: Lanty O’Liffey and The Currency Lass; or My Native Girl
• 18. ‘The emigrants’ friend’? Guides for Irish emigrants by clergymen, c.1830-82
• 19. ‘Mar is fánach mac a’ teacht go cruinn mar’ athair’: Dáibhí de Barra’s surviving translations’
• Index