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,...
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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
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, 1861â1910 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 â 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