This book provides an in-depth study of translation and translators in nineteenth-century Ireland, using translation history to widen our understanding of cultu

"Translating Ireland explores centuries of translation activity during which the languages, cultures and literatures of Ireland have been affected by the work o

The Maamtrasna Murders of 1882--in which three men who spoke only Irish were wrongfully sentenced to death after a trial conducted fully in English--stand as on

This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literacy and languag

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field cam