Reading Ireland Print, Reading and Social

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.

Raymond Gillespie is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Preface

vi

Note on the Text

ix

Abbreviations

x

PART I THE CONDITIONS OF PRINT

The social meaning of print

3

(23)

The prelude to print: the rise of writing

26

(29)

PART II THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRINT

The coming of print, 1550--1650

55

(20)

The triumph of print, 1650--1700

75

(26)

PART III THE STRATEGIES OF READING

Reading for power: institutions and print

101

(30)

Reading for salvation

131

(28)

Reading for profit and pleasure

159

(27)

Appendix: Book production in seventeenth-century Ireland

186

(4)

Bibliography

190

(23)

Index

213

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

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