Volume IV: The Irish Book in English 1800-1891 details the story of the book in Ireland during the nineteenth century, when Ireland was integrated into the United Kingdom. The chapters in this volume explore book production and distribution and the differing of ways in which publishing existed in Dublin, Belfast, and the provinces.
"Bibliography describing 642 publications of work by Scottish poet and Mason, Robert Burns (1759-1796), 180 works about Burns, 139 works about Scotland, and 241 chapbooks. Also includes a brief bibliography of botanist and Burns collector William Robertson Smith, a geographical index, and publisher indices"--Provided by publisher.
Excerpt from Memorial Catalogue of the Burns Exhibition: Held in the Galleries of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 175 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, From 15th July Till 31st October, 1896 Memorial Catalogue of the Burns Exhibition: Held in the Galleries of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 175 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, from 15th July Till 31st October, 1896 was written by Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1898. This is a 647 page book, containing 116428 words and 95 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In a broad-ranging series of essays this book, published in the 250th anniversary year of his birth, offers a timely opportunity to re-examine the relationships between Robert Burns and writers of literature in the north of Ireland. Contents: Andrew R. Holmes (QUB), Presbyterian religion, poetry, and politics in Ulster, 1770-1850; Frank Ferguson (UU), 'Burns the Conservative': revising the Lowland Scottish tradition in Ulster poetry; Carol Baraniuk (U Glasgow), The independence of the Ulster-Scots poetic tradition; Jennifer Orr (U Glasgow), Samuel Thomson and the poetics of Ulster Scots identity; John Erskine (Stranmillis College), Robert Burns and Ulster, 1786-c. 1830; Frank Ferguson, John Erskine & Roger Dixon, Collecting Burns in the north of Ireland, 1844-1902; Norman Vance (U Sussex), Northern fiction after Carleton; Colin Walker (QUB), Presbyterianism in Irish fiction, 1780-1920.