Record Number: 6089

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c.1868) read the merchandise [mainly popular song and story chapbooks] on sale from bookstalls at country fairs, concluding " ... the young Jaimie managed, by persistently parking himself at the left-hand corner of the stand where the books were displayed, to get through the entire stock a little at a time, when the owner was not looking or was feeling indulgent."

Century:

1800-1849, 1850-1899

Date:

unknown

Country:

Ireland

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: bookstall at fair

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Seamus MacManus

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1868

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

Ireland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

popular chapbooks

Genre:

Fiction, Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

6089

Source:

Print

Author:

J. R. R. Adams

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Printed Word and the Common Man: Popular Culture in Ulster 1700-1900

Place of Publication:

Belfast

Date of Publication:

1987

Vol:

n/a

Page:

159-60

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

J. R. R. Adams, The Printed Word and the Common Man: Popular Culture in Ulster 1700-1900, (Belfast, 1987), p. 159-60, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6089, accessed: 01 June 2024

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Additional Comments:

None