Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century - 9781781381823

Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth CenturyAuthor(s): Leeann Lane, William Murphy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781781381823, 978-1781381823\nSynopsis\nIt has often been argued that modern leisure was born in the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War One. Then, it has been suggested, that if leisure was not invented its forms and meanings changed.\n\nDespite the recent expansion of the literature on Irish popular cultures perhaps most strikingly sport the conceptions, purposes, and practical manifestations of leisure among the Irish during this critical period have yet to receive the attention they deserve. This collection represents an attempt to address this.\n\nIn twelve essays that explore vibrant expressions of associational culture, the emergence of new leisure spaces, literary manifestations and representations of leisure, the pleasures and purposes of.