Niall Ó Ciosáin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niall Ó Ciosáin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niall Ó |
| FAMILY NAME | Ciosáin |
| SIGNATURE | CIOSÁIN N Ó |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The language of the printing-house
Among the principal Celtic languages, Irish is conspicuous for the paucity of printed production between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. Various explanations have been advanced for this by Irish scholars and historians. Among them number suggestions that, since printing was an urban phenomenon, and since towns in Ireland were largely English-speaking, printers therefore lacked the necessary language skills. This paper evaluates such…
Doyle, Aidan
Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850
This volume analyses the construction and dissemination of the image conveyed of Irish society in the early 19th century
The Print Cultures of the Celtic Languages, 1700–1900
While the cultural trajectories of the Celtic language communities have some broad similarities in the long term, their histories in the medium term were quite different. The article approaches this issue through a comparative analysis of the print cultures of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Breton and Irish in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The approach is both quantitative and qualitative, surveying total production in the four languages as w…
Festschrifts for Irish Historians
Cartography and commemoration
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The Poor Inquiry and Irish Society – A Consensus Theory of Truth
The most detailed contemporary ethnographic representation of early nineteenth-century Ireland can be found in the reports produced by the Poor Inquiry of 1833–6. Despite their richness, however, these reports remained marginal to contemporary policy discussions and public debate. This is normally, and correctly, attributed to the unpopularity and impracticability of the specific recommendations of the Inquiry. This paper argues that the marginal…
Commissions and 60 Committees
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature - Volume 109C, 2009
Remembering the Year of the French
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Approaching a folklore archive
Using the Irish Folklore Commission's centenary survey of local accounts of the Great Famine (1845–50), this article posits a tripartite taxonomy of collective memory: the “global,” the “popular” and the “local.” Global memory was structured by meta‐narratives, the explanatory accounts of the Famine derived from the Catholic Church and nationalist political organisations. Local memory dealt with named individuals and places. The intermediate leve…
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Round towers and square holes
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Production and Distribution
Research on the printing and production of popular literature in Ireland is hampered by a comparative shortage of primary sources. The most recent survey of the Dublin trade before 1800 remarks that ‘surviving primary documents connected with the book trade are particularly rare’ and the principal article on provincial printing begins by pointing out that ‘substantial primary sources for the history of Irish printing are regrettably few, and for …
Chivalric Romances
Contemporary commentators were unanimous about the prominence of one type of text within the cheap printed literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and surviving printers’ lists and advertisements bear them out. This genre was the romance of chivalry, which had been a fundamental element of popular literature since its beginnings, not only in Ireland, but in Britain and Europe as well. None of the printed romances popular in Ireland…
Time, Ritual and History
Many of the texts of printed popular literature contain a strong historical dimension and present a variety of different conceptions of time. Mandrou emphasises the historical aspect of chivalric romance, which he calls ‘historical legend’, describing a mythical past, an origin legend of the early modern French state and of its ruling classes. Bollème and Capp have discussed the presentation of time in the annual almanacs which were among the mos…
Popular Print and Popular Culture
Most studies of literacy and print culture in the historiography of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland approach them from the point of view of economic or political history. For economic history, literacy has a double significance. On the one hand, it acts as a measure of relative wealth, as an indication that people have money to invest in education and that there are returns on such an investment. On the other hand, a certain level of l…
‘Improving and Practical Literature’
The historiography of popular culture in Europe traces, and is the product of, a growing divide between the culture of the elite and popular culture from the sixteenth century onwards. Within elite groups, economic change, literacy and the growth of the private sphere led to new forms of cultural practice, and the gradual but definite withdrawal from a common culture in which they had previously participated, and the development of views of popul…
Literacy and Education
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate levels of reading ability in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ireland, providing an initial context for the reception of the cheap printed books. To begin, however, two fundamental distinctions need to be made. In the first place, there is a difference between the history of literacy on the one hand, and the history of educational institutions on the other. In the second place, within the…
Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750–1850
This highly acclaimed book is being published for the first time in paperback. The author studies the cheap printed literature which was read in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland and the cultu
Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850
This volume analyses the construction and dissemination of the image conveyed of Irish society in the early 19th century
Approaching a folklore archive
Using the Irish Folklore Commission's centenary survey of local accounts of the Great Famine (1845–50), this article posits a tripartite taxonomy of collective memory: the “global,” the “popular” and the “local.” Global memory was structured by meta‐narratives, the explanatory accounts of the Famine derived from the Catholic Church and nationalist political organisations. Local memory dealt with named individuals and places. The intermediate leve…
Select Bibliography of Writings on Irish Economic and Social History
Production and Distribution
Research on the printing and production of popular literature in Ireland is hampered by a comparative shortage of primary sources. The most recent survey of the Dublin trade before 1800 remarks that ‘surviving primary documents connected with the book trade are particularly rare’ and the principal article on provincial printing begins by pointing out that ‘substantial primary sources for the history of Irish printing are regrettably few, and for …
Chivalric Romances
Contemporary commentators were unanimous about the prominence of one type of text within the cheap printed literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and surviving printers’ lists and advertisements bear them out. This genre was the romance of chivalry, which had been a fundamental element of popular literature since its beginnings, not only in Ireland, but in Britain and Europe as well. None of the printed romances popular in Ireland…
Time, Ritual and History
Many of the texts of printed popular literature contain a strong historical dimension and present a variety of different conceptions of time. Mandrou emphasises the historical aspect of chivalric romance, which he calls ‘historical legend’, describing a mythical past, an origin legend of the early modern French state and of its ruling classes. Bollème and Capp have discussed the presentation of time in the annual almanacs which were among the mos…
Popular Print and Popular Culture
Most studies of literacy and print culture in the historiography of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland approach them from the point of view of economic or political history. For economic history, literacy has a double significance. On the one hand, it acts as a measure of relative wealth, as an indication that people have money to invest in education and that there are returns on such an investment. On the other hand, a certain level of l…
‘Improving and Practical Literature’
The historiography of popular culture in Europe traces, and is the product of, a growing divide between the culture of the elite and popular culture from the sixteenth century onwards. Within elite groups, economic change, literacy and the growth of the private sphere led to new forms of cultural practice, and the gradual but definite withdrawal from a common culture in which they had previously participated, and the development of views of popul…
Literacy and Education
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate levels of reading ability in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ireland, providing an initial context for the reception of the cheap printed books. To begin, however, two fundamental distinctions need to be made. In the first place, there is a difference between the history of literacy on the one hand, and the history of educational institutions on the other. In the second place, within the…
The Ideology of Status in Ireland
On a broadly political reading of the genres of popular literature discussed above, one theme emerges from three of the genres, though of course it is not the only theme. Chivalric romance, criminal biography and the historical literature all address the question of social hierarchy and its legitimacy, and through their production and reception we can trace some patterns of hierarchy and deference in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Irela…
Criminal Biography
Criminal biography, the lives and actions of robbers and highwaymen, was, like the romances of chivalry, a frequent, if not universal, feature of popular literature in western Europe. While some romances, such as Valentine and Orson , were printed in many countries, the literature of crime tended to be more national. At the same time, however, there were striking similarities between texts from different countries, in chronology, structure and co…
Languages and Literacy
The discussion of the Pious Miscellany introduced the subject of popular printing and the linguistic situation in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ireland. The subject is worth examining in greater detail for the light it sheds not only on questions of literacy and of reading, but also of language shift, and more generally on the process of ‘cultural modernisation’ discussed in Chapter 11. This chapter will examine popular printing i…
The Catholic Reformation, Irish-Language Printing and Song
Nowhere is the potential disjunction between popular printed literature and popular or local cultures greater than in the area of religion. Most of the printed devotional or pious literature intended for mass consumption was produced by institutional churches, and reflected the ideals and attitudes of those churches rather than the everyday belief and practice on the part of adherents of those churches. It was frequently produced in forms which f…
Approaches and Methods
This book is intended as a contribution to the reconstruction of the local and popular cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland, of beliefs, attitudes and practices among the majority of the population. The problems of documenting such cultures in the past are well known. The words and beliefs of the majority are rarely, if ever, available in forms which are not heavily mediated. Most of the archives and material objects which survi…
Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750–1850
This highly acclaimed book is being published for the first time in paperback. The author studies the cheap printed literature which was read in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland and the cultu
Round towers and square holes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Approaching a folklore archive
Using the Irish Folklore Commission's centenary survey of local accounts of the Great Famine (1845–50), this article posits a tripartite taxonomy of collective memory: the “global,” the “popular” and the “local.” Global memory was structured by meta‐narratives, the explanatory accounts of the Famine derived from the Catholic Church and nationalist political organisations. Local memory dealt with named individuals and places. The intermediate leve…
Report of the Honorary Secretary
Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
Remembering the Year of the French
Commissions and 60 Committees
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature - Volume 109C, 2009
History (21 works) · Political science (21 works) · Irish (16 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Irish and British Studies (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Law (13 works) · History (11 works) · Literature (11 works)