‘Brings a salutary perspective to a marginalized topic—the nature and scope of a literary Renaissance in early modern Dublin. This very appealing volume is notable for its broad historical scope (ranging from the early fifteen-century Memoriale by the Dublin-born notary and legal scribe James Yonge to Anglo-Irish writing for the stage in Restoration Dublin) and the breadth of topics it addresses.’
Professor Lowell Gallagher, Studies in English Literature

Kathleen Miller is a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast

Crawford Gribben is a Professor of History and Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast

Notes on contributors
Introduction – Kathleen Miller
1. Centre or periphery? The role of Dublin in James Yonge’s Memoriale (1412) – Theresa O’Byrne
2. Books, politics and society in Renaissance Dublin – Raymond Gillespie
3. Edmund Spenser’s Dublin – Andrew Hadfield
4. Complaint and reform in late Elizabethan Dublin, 1579–94 –David Heffernan
5. Renaissance Dublin and the construction of literary authorship: Richard Bellings, James Shirley and Henry Burnell – Marie-Louise Coolahan
6. ‘A real credit to Ireland, and to Dublin’: the scholarly achievements of Sir James Ware – Mark Empey
7. Translation and collaboration in Renaissance Dublin – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
8. Amor vincit omnia: Gaelic poetry and English books – Mícheál Mac Craith
9. Latin oratory in seventeenth-century Dublin – Jason Harris
10. Anglo-Irish drama? Writing for the stage in Restoration Dublin – Stephen Austin Kelly
11. Peripheral print cultures in Renaissance Europe – Alexander S. Wilkinson
Index