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Notes on Contributors
Introduction Clare Hutton
I. THE CULTURES OF IRISH PUBLISHING AND READING
1. Publishing the Irish Cultural Revival, 1891-1922, Clare Hutton
2. Reading and the Irish Revival, 1891-1922, Ben Levitas
3. Publishing after Partition, 1922-1939, Nicholas Allen and Terence Brown
4. Reading Revolutions, 1922-1939, Nicholas Allen
5. 'Some Measure of Vocation': Publishing in Ireland, 1939-1969, Gabriel Doherty and Gillian M. Doherty
6. From Tucson to Television: Irish Reading, 1939-1969, Frank Shovlin
7. 'Our Literary History in the Making': The Persistence of the Literary Press, 1969-2000, Siobhan Holland
8. 'Anything about Ireland?' Reading in Ireland, 1969-2000, Ronan McDonald
II: THEMATIC SURVEYS
9. An Eye to Business: Financial and Market Factors, 1895-1995, Tony Farmar
10. Publishing for Catholic Ireland, Andrew McCarthy
11. Funding Literary Enterprise and Publishing in Ireland, Gillian McIntosh
12. A Dark Chapter: Censorship and the Irish Writer, Donal O Drisceoil
13. Parochial, National and Universal: The Concerns of Irish Regional Publishing, Mary N. Harris
14. The Political Economy of Irish School Books, Patrick Walsh
15. Books for Irish Children, Pat Donlon
16. The Iconic Book in Ireland, 1891-1930, Nicola Gordon Bowe
17. The Irish Book in the United States: An Overview, Robert Keating O'Neill
18. The Harp in the South: Reading Ireland in Australia, Patrick Buckridge
19. 'The Medium is the Message': The Irish Book in the Informatics Age, Bruce Stewart
III: PUBLISHER CASE STUDIES
20. "Our Irish Canon Your Irish Canon": Macmillan's Irish List, 1899-1968, Warwick Gould
21. M. H. Gill, later Gill and Macmillan, Gillian McIntosh
22. 'This terrible struggle with want of means': Behind the Scenes at The Cuala Press, Gifford Lewis
23. The Extraordinary History of the House of Maunsel, Clare Hutton
24. Faber and Irish Literature, Ruth Ling
25. 'A Hazardous Venture': The Dolmen Press, Derval Tubridy
26. The Gallery Press, Colleen McKenna
27. The Blackstaff Press, Eamonn Hughes
IV. SOURCES
28. Sources for Irish Book History, 1891-2000, Patrick Walsh
APPENDICES
A. Irish Books Banned under the Censorship of Publications Acts, 1929-67, Donal O Drisceoil
B. The Macmillan Archive and Irish Writers, Warwick Gould
C. Minding Other People's Business: Literary Agents in Ireland since 1986, Jonathan Williams
Bibliography
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