Volume III of the Oxford History of the Irish Book outlines the impact of the rise of print in early modern Ireland in a series of groundbreaking essays, charting the development of a print culture in Ireland and the transformations it brought to conceptions of politics, religion, and literature. This is an authoritative volume with essays by key scholars that will be the standard guide for many years to come.

Raymond Gillespie is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Andrew Hadfield in Professor of English at the University of Sussex.

• 1: Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield: Introduction


• Print Culture


• 2: Raymond Gillespie: Print Culture, 1550-1700


• 3: Toby Barnard: Print Culture, 1700-1800


• The Structure of Print


• 4: Colm Lennon: The Print Trade, 1550-1700


• 5: Colm Lennon: The Print Trade, 1700-1800


• Collecting and Reading Print


• 6: Elizabethanne Boran: Libraries and Collectors, 1550-1700


• 7: Toby Barnard: Libraries and Collectors, 1700-1800


• 8: Raymond Gillespie: Reading Print, 1550-1700


• 9: Máire Kennedy: Reading print, 1700-1800


• The Impact of Print


• 10: Thomas O'Connor: Religious Change, 1550-1800


• 11: James Kelly: Political Publishing, 1550-1700


• 12: James Kelly: Political Publishing, 1700-1800


• 13: Allan Blackstock: Politics and Print: A Case Study


• 14: Andrew Hadfield: Historical Writing, 1550-1660


• 15: Bernadette Cunningham: Historical Writing, 1660-1750


• 16: Deana Rankin: Historical Writing, 1750-1800


• 17: Andrew Carpenter: Literature in Print, 1550-1800


• 18: Christopher Morash: Theatre and Print, 1550-1800


• 19: Siobhán Fitzpatrick: Science, 1550-1800


• 20: Mary Ann Lyons: Foreign Language Books, 1550-1700


• 21: Máire Kennedy: Foreign Language Books, 1700-1800


• Sources for Print


• 22: Raymond Gillespie: Sources for the History of the Early Modern Book in Ireland