Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intersection between oral tradition, manuscript, and print cultures in Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish poetry (1789) / Lesa Ní Mhunghaile -- Garbling and jumbling : printing from dictation in eighteenth-century Limerick / Andrew Carpenter -- Lost in translation : reading Keating's Foras feasa ar Éireann, 1635-1847 / Marc Caball -- "And this deponent further sayeth" : orality, print and the 1641 depositions / Marie-Louise Coolahan -- Gaelic texts and English script / Nicholas Williams -- "James Cleland his book" : the library of a small farming family in early nineteenth-century Co. Down / John Moulden -- Reading and orality in early nineteenth-century Ulster poetry : James Orr and his contemporaries / Linde Lunney.