Overview

What did it mean to have an ‘Irish’ dwelling in the nineteenth century? How did Irish people write about, think about, visually represent or imagine what constituted home? Showcasing research from scholars based in Ireland, the United Kingdom and further afield, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to answer these questions by exploring the physicality and symbolism of Irish dwellings, and the home as a place of repose, exercise and work. Using a range of methodological approaches including history, folklore and literature, this volume offers new perspectives on the material culture of home, fictionalized homes, social housing schemes, suburban living spaces, home and social mobility, institutional living, migration and memories of the home-house, and gender and eviction. Rather than focus on the Big House, which has already received considerable scholarly attention, this volume foregrounds dwelling spaces that were especially vulnerable to economic forces: the homes of the urban and rural poor. Additionally, the book acknowledges the importance to nineteenth-century Ireland of a class that has arguably received even less attention in Irish scholarship than the poor, a rising urban/suburban middle class, exploring their impact on housing and on cultural and leisure activities. An Open Access version of Christopher Cusack's chapter '""Back into the old homestead"": The Irish Cottage in Irish-American Fiction, 861−1910' will be made available on publication.

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Author:   Heather Laird ,  Jay R. Roszman
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   9
ISBN:  

9781802078787

ISBN 10:   1802078789
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   01 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Heather Laird and Jay R. Roszman I. Modernity and the Irish Cabin The Nonhuman and the Irish Peasant Cabin in Nineteenth-Century Culture Maureen O’Connor ‘Hold manfully onto your farms’: Gender and Resistance During the Irish Land War Patrick Bethel ‘Back into the old homestead’: The Irish Cottage in Irish-American Fiction, 1861−1910 Christopher Cusack II. Class Mobility and Home ‘A partition . . . making of it a kitchen and a bedroom’: Working-Class Housing in Irish Provincial Towns in the Late Nineteenth Century Peter Connell Spreading Out: Suburbanization and Dwelling-Places in Middle-Class Belfast Alice Johnson Health from Home?: Home Gymnasiums in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conor Heffernan After Castle Rackrent: The Wardlaws (1896) and Literary Responses to Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent Patrick Maume III. Families and Intimate Spaces in Institutional Dwellings The Policeman’s Home: The Constabulary Barracks in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland Brian Griffin ‘No relatives or anyone … to take the slightest interest in her’: Insanity, Patients, and their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Asylum Tríona Waters Picturing Patients: Cork Street Fever Hospital, Photography and Childhood in Late Nineteenth-Century Dublin Orla Fitzpatrick IV. The Material Culture of Home Burying Bad Luck: Material Cultures of Magic in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Irish Houses and Farmyards Clodagh Tait ‘The tailors generally went from house to house in those days’: Travelling Tailors and the Making of Apparel in the Rural Irish Dwelling, 1850−1900 Eliza McKee Walter Osborne and the Domestic Scene: Family and Professional Life in a Dublin Suburb Kathryn Milligan

Reviews

‘The wide range of topics in the volume testify to the diversity of scholarship of the contributors, many of whom are early-career scholars. Several of the papers have illustrations which form the focus of their discussion and all of the presentations are fully referenced. The editors have produced an excellent volume though at an unacceptably high price for many individuals and libraries. BRENDA COLLINS, Family and Community History

Author Information

Heather Laird is a lecturer in English at University College Cork. She is a committee member of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland and an editor of the Cork University Press book series Síreacht: Longings for Another Ireland. Jay Roszman is a lecturer in nineteenth-century Irish and British history at University College Cork. He is the Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland and the Irish Editor of the Irish Literary Supplement.

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