British and Irish Print Networks

  • Elizabeth Tilley (Conference Organising Committee Member)

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    Elizabeth Tilley (2016) Ireland�s thriving trade in books in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depended on strong networks linking the country with Great Britain. An international group of researchers will meet in NUI Galway�s Moore Institute from 11-12 July to discuss how texts, authors, and workers moved between the two locations across the period. Topics under discussion include circulating libraries, publishing by subscription, the effects of the Act of Union in 1801 on integrating the book trade in Britain and Ireland, periodicals, and poetry publishing [Conference Organising Committee Member] British and Irish Print Networks Moore Institute, NUIG, 11 07 2016-12 07 2016.
    Period11 Jul 201612 Jul 2016
    Event typeConference