Nicholas M. Wolf
New York University
6 Papers
11 Citations
Nicholas M. Wolf is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Irish & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
The Irish-Speaking Clergy in the Nineteenth Century: Education, Trends, and Timing
TL;DR: For instance, the opprobrium heaped on Daniel O'Connell by later cultural nationalists for his utilitarian approach to language and culture, an attitude long portrayed by historians as contributing to a disdain for Irish among his multitude of followers, looks misplaced in light of investigations into popular culture that have revealed no apparent concern with the politician's ambivalence on the issue as discussed by the authors.
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Advocacy, the Enlightenment, and the Catholic Print Trade in Mathew Carey's Dublin
TL;DR: In Dublin, the second half of the eighteenth century Dublin had emerged as a focal point of the transatlantic print trade in Catholic religious titles as discussed by the authors, driven by a network of printers with rising professional fortunes and a number of notable figures among its ranks.
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Introduction: Ireland and the Contemporary
TL;DR: For example, the number of titles produced each year as measured by annual ISBNs issued has ballooned by nearly 500 percent in a decade as mentioned in this paper, reaching over a million and a half books published each year across all subjects.
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IrIsh scrIbal culture as a Purveyor of charm texts In the eIghteenth and nIneteenth centurIes
Nicholas M. Wolf
- 01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the scribal context surrounding eighteenth and nineteenth-century Irish charm exemplars deserves closer investigation so that the textual practices that surrounded the propagation of charms can be restored to their place alongside the words of the charms themselves.
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