Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Heather Laird is a lecturer in English at University College Cork. She is a committee member of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland and an editor of the Cork University Press book series Síreacht: Longings for Another Ireland. Jay Roszman is a lecturer in nineteenth-century Irish and British history at University College Cork. He is the Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland and the Irish Editor of the Irish Literary Supplement.

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, 1861−1910

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 … 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