| 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." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Ireland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: bookstall at fair | ||||||||||
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| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | popular chapbooks |
| Genre: | Fiction, Ephemera |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 6089 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6089, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
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