Product Description: In this innovative volume, ten leading scholars from a variety of backgrounds examine how the production, circulation, and reception of books reflected Irish intellectual life. Through rigorous encounters with seminal works in their own particular fields-law, music, archaeology, Celtic studies, history, literary criticism, and art-the contributors explore how print and publishing impacted on the way ideas were shaped and spread in modern Ireland...read more

Product Description: Dr Mary 'Paul' Pollard is the most distinguished historian of books in Ireland. Her two volumes, Dublin's Trade in Books 1550-1800 and Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book-trade 1550-1800 received international acclaim and are regarded as the standard works in the field...read more