Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland

Contents: 

• I. 
  • The conditions of print 
  • The social meaning of print 
  • The prelude to print: the rise of writing 
• II. 
  • The development of print 
  • The coming of print, 1550-1650 
  • The triumph of print, 1650-1700 
• III, 
  • The strategies of reading 
  • Reading for power: institutions and print 
  • Reading for salvation 
  • Reading for profit and pleasure 
• Appendix: 
  • Book production in the seventeenth-century Ireland