This volume explores various ways in which Irish people spent their leisure between 1830 and 1914 and assesses the forces that shaped these.
FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand NewIt has often been argued that 'modern' leisure was born in the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War One. Then, it has been suggested, that if leisure was not 'invented' its forms and meanings changed.Despite the recent expansion of the literature on Irish popular cultures – perhaps most strikingly sport – the conceptions, purposes, and practical manifestations of leisure among the Irish during this critical period have yet to receive the attention they deserve. This collection represents an attempt to address this.In twelve essays that explore vibrant expressions of associational culture, the emergence of new leisure spaces, literary manifestations and representations of leisure, the pleasures and purposes of travel, and the leisure pursuits of elite women the collection offers a variety of perspectives on the volume's theme. As becomes apparent in these studies, all manner of activity, from music to football, reading to dining, travel to photography, dancing to dining, visiting to cycling, child's play to fighting and attitudes to these were shaped not just by the drive to pleasure but by ideas of class, respectability, improvement and social control as well as political, social, educational, medical and religious ideologies.List of contributors: Leeann Lane, William Murphy, John Borgonovo, Brendan Power, Vanessa Rutherford, Orla Fitzpatrick, Matthew Potter, James H. Murphy, Kevan O'Rourke, Patrick Maume, Philip McEvansoneya, Brian Griffin, Maeve O'Riordan and Rachel Murphy.
Dr Leeann Lane is Head of Irish Studies at Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University. Dr William Murphy is Lecturer in Irish Studies at Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University.
PART ONE: Leisure and Association Culture1. Politics as Leisure: Cork Brass Bands, 1845–1914 - John Borgonovo2. The Functions of Association Football in the Boys' Brigade in Ireland, 1888–1914 - Brendan PowerPART TWO: Leisure Spaces3. Muscles and Morals: children's playground culture in Ireland, 1836–1918 - Vanessa Rutherford4. Photography and Leisure: the rise of the photographic studio in mid- to late-Nineteenth Century Dublin - Orla Fitzpatrick5. The Establishment and Evolution of Limerick City Library Municipal Library (1889–1938) - Matthew PotterPART THREE: Leisure in Literature6. Leisure in Charles Lever's Jack Hinton (1842) and the continuities of Irish fiction - James H. Murphy7. The Fighting Irish: Faction Fighting as Leisure in the Writings of William Carleton - Kevan O'Rourke8. The humours of provincial life: theatre and tourism in Matthew Archdeacon's "Everard" - Patrick MaumePART FOUR: Leisure, Tourism and Travel9. From Drogheda to Jerusalem, and a riot: the travels of Thomas Brodigan of Piltown, 1845–46 - Philip McEvansoneya10. 'Bad roads will absolutely nip in the bud the new development': Cycling tourism in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - Brian GriffinPART FIVE: Leisure and Female Elites11. Leisure with a purpose: women and the entertaining practices of the Irish Landed Elite, c.1860–1914 - Maeve O'Riordan12. Lady Charlotte Stopford – A Lady of Leisure - Rachel Harwood MurphyBibliographyIndex
'There is a distinct gap in the historiography. So this varied collection of essays, harvested from the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland in 2012, is particularly welcome.'
Peter Borsay, Continuity and Change
'This present collection does a superb job at highlighting just some of the areas for us to think more about in regard to the history of leisure in Ireland – in the nineteenth as well as the recently passed twentieth century. It is an important contribution to a growing body of work and along with its relations in the field of sport history; a more mature and developed discussion of leisure and sport in the development and history of life on this island might be possible. Indeed, it might be time for those 'broader contexts' of which the editors write to meet annual not under the heading of sport alone but leisure too.'
David Toms, Irish Economic and Social History
'This is a well-edited and exciting volume that certainly demonstrates the current state of English-language research on nineteenth-century popular culture, with one foot in the more traditional study of civic society and one foot in the innovative search for new angles and decentred perspectives.'
Peter K Andersson, The English Historical Review
Reviews'This is a timely study, building on two intersecting areas of historical study that have become increasingly important in Ireland.'
Martyn Powell, Studia Hibernica
"This is a timely study, building on two intersecting areas of historical study that have become increasingly important in Ireland." Martyn Powell, Studia Hibernica
Edited contibutor list:John Borgonovo is a historian at the School of History, University College Cork.Orla Fitzpatrick is a PhD researcher at University of Ulster.Brian Griffin is a Senior Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University.Leeann Lane is Head of Irish Studies and Head of the School of Humanities at the Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University.Patrick Maume is a graduate of UCC and QUB, now living in Dublin, who works as a researcher for the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography.Rachel Murphy is a member of the School of History at University College Cork, where she is studying towards a PhD in Digital Humanities.William Murphy is a lecturer in Irish Studies at the Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University.Philip McEvansoneya is a lecturer in the history of art at Trinity College Dublin.James H Murphy is Professor of English at DePaul University, Chicago.Maeve O'Riordan recently completed her PhD 'Home, family and society: women of the Irish landed class, 1860-1914. A Munster case study' at University College Cork.Kevan O'Rourke is currently completing a PhD thesis entitled "Chronicler of the Irish Peasantry: A study of the life and works of William Carleton (1794-1869)" at Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University.Matthew Potter works in Limerick City Archives, and is the author of several articles and books, including a history of municipal government in Ireland.Brendan Power holds a PhD in History from Trinity College, Dublin.Vanessa Rutherford, MA, PhD is a Research Fellow at the School of Education, University College Cork.
Covers a wide, fascinating array of leisure activities.Offers original insights on how leisure activities can reflect class, improvement and social control.Published in partnership with the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland.
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