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The Waterloo
Directory of Irish
Newspapers
and Periodicals, 1800-1900
John S. North, ed.
(1986)
INTRODUCTION
The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and
Periodicals, 1800-1900 is an alphabetical listing and description of
publications in Ireland in all fields, including the arts, sciences,
professions, trades, labour, agriculture, industry, entertainment, sport,
church and home. Publications described in this Directory
range from daily to annual frequency, and at their inception were
projected to continue for an indefinite period of time, so that almanacs,
postal directories and annual reports of societies are included while
serially published multi-volume works of fiction or government reports in
several parts over regular intervals are excluded.
THE
IMPORTANCE OF 19TH-CENTURY PERIODICALS
Newspapers and periodicals of the 19th-century represent a wider range
of public and private opinion than those of the 20th-century, partly
because the great publishing conglomerates did not yet dominate the
scene. Consequently, the 19th-century, during which so many of the
precedents and customs of our century were established, became the first
for which we have an enormously detailed record, and the lion's share of
this record exists in newspapers and periodicals.
METHOD OF
COMPILATION
The procedures for identifying titles for the Directory were to
search out many previously published listings (subject listings, library
listings, advertising directories), to read each issue of The Irish Book Lover
since its inception, and to check all the shelved and un-shelved holdings
of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Shelf-checks were supplemented
with a variety of different sources: prospectuses, subject bibliographies,
card catalogues, indexes, histories, and specialized listings.
HISTORY OF THE
PROJECT
The aim of the Waterloo Directories is to collect information
on every newspaper and periodical published in the United Kingdom between
1800 and 1900. The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and
Periodicals, 1800-1900 is the first volume of this series which also
includes The Waterloo Directory of Scottish Newspapers and
Periodicals, 1800-1900 (2 volumes) and The Waterloo Directory of
English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 (10 volumes).
FEATURES
- Inclusiveness and scope across all subjects and
fields
- Subject
- Personal Name
- Place
- Up to 25
fields of information per title, including title; later title(s);
sub-title; numbering; dates; place; editor; proprietor, publisher,
printer; size; price; circulation; frequency; illustration; issuing
body; indexing; departments; orientation; comments; mergers;
sources; histories; location.
REVIEWS
What the scholars say about the Waterloo Directory series:
"The Waterloo Directory [of Irish Newspapers and
Periodicals, 1800-1900] ... offers the most accurate and complete
accumulation of information on Irish serial
publication. The extensive indexing makes essential sources for the study
of nearly all facets of nineteenth-century Irish life and culture
readily accessible for the first time. An indispensable work that
supercedes all earlier bibliographies listing nineteenth-century Scottish
periodicals and newspapers and stands as an example of the kind of guide
needed for serials of other countries and periods."
James Harner, Literary Research Guide,
2nd ed (MLA)
"The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and
Periodicals, 1800-1900...is the best published model now available for
the bibliographic representation of Victorian periodicals."
Scott Bennett in Investigating Victorian
Journalism
"... a premier project in an enormously vital area: the bibliographical
description and control of serial publication in Great Britain... The
elaborate indices, with their revelations about interest groups, suggest
new ways of conceiving the world of information and opinion in the
century, and new methods of deploying evidence, including the statistical.
In short, The Waterloo Directory is an indispensable enabling
tool for every serious research library and for historical and literary
scholars working in the period."
David J. DeLaura, Avalon Foundation Professor in the
Humanities and Professor of English, University of
Pennsylvania
INFORMATION
ON ORDERING
The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and
Periodicals, 1800-1900 ISBN 0-921-075-00-6
..........$400 CDN
..........$340 US
..........£200 UK
840 pages, 21 cm x 27 cm
Bound in linen, three-part case,
Smythe
sewn, gold lettered
Note: A 10% discount applies to direct, non-dealer orders.
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