Download or read book The Irish Hedge School and Its Books, 1695-1831 written by Antonia McManus and published by Four Courts Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McManus (Education, Trinity College Dublin) examines the informal and often illegal schools where poor Irish, mostly rural, learned to read and were introduced to tenets of Irish nationalism. She also critically appraises a selection of the chapbooks--Burton books before 1824--used in them, including the criminal biographies, the works of entertainment, and the perennially popular chivalric romance The Seven Champions of Christendom. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR