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Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century

This volume explores various ways in which Irish people spent their leisure between 1830 and 1914 and assesses the forces that shaped these.

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Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century

This volume explores various ways in which Irish people spent their leisure between 1830 and 1914 and assesses the forces that shaped these.

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Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century

Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century

Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century

Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century

Overview

This volume explores various ways in which Irish people spent their leisure between 1830 and 1914 and assesses the forces that shaped these.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781381823
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 12/01/2015
Series: Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland LUP Series
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

"Dr Leeann Lane is Head of Irish Studies at Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University."

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Leisure and Association Culture
1. Politics as Leisure: Cork Brass Bands, 1845-1914 - John Borgonovo
2. The Functions of Association Football in the Boys' Brigade in Ireland, 1888-1914 - Brendan Power

PART TWO: Leisure Spaces
3. Muscles and Morals: children's playground culture in Ireland, 18361918 - Vanessa Rutherford
4. Photography and Leisure: the rise of the photographic studio in mid- to late-Nineteenth Century Dublin - Orla Fitzpatrick
5. The Establishment and Evolution of Limerick City Library Municipal Library (18891938) - Matthew Potter

PART THREE: Leisure in Literature
6. Leisure in Charles Lever's Jack Hinton (1842) and the continuities of Irish fiction - James H. Murphy
7. The Fighting Irish: Faction Fighting as Leisure in the Writings of William Carleton - Kevan O'Rourke
8. The humours of provincial life: theatre and tourism in Matthew Archdeacon's "Everard" - Patrick Maume

PART FOUR: Leisure, Tourism and Travel
9. From Drogheda to Jerusalem, and a riot: the travels of Thomas Brodigan of Piltown, 1845-46 - Philip McEvansoneya
10. 'Bad roads will absolutely nip in the bud the new development': Cycling tourism in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - Brian Griffin

PART FIVE: Leisure and Female Elites
11. Leisure with a purpose: women and the entertaining practices of the Irish Landed Elite, c.1860-1914 - Maeve O'Riordan
12. Lady Charlotte Stopford - A Lady of Leisure - Rachel Harwood Murphy

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