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It is argued in this essay that the streets of Tralee in south-west Munster in the late 1820s and early 1830s were characterised by a protean, anarchic and often oppositional culture which was both diurnal and very frequently nocturnal in its context of enactment. Indeed, more often than not, darkness framed and enabled expressions of dissidence, resistance and criminality. Technology would, in due course, challenge the imperium of darkness.

Intersection between oral tradition, manuscript, and print cultures in Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish poetry (1789) / Lesa Ní Mhunghaile -- Garbling and jumbling : printing from dictation in eighteenth-century Limerick / Andrew Carpenter -- Lost in translation : reading Keating's Foras feasa ar Éireann, 1635-1847 / Marc Caball -- "And this deponent further sayeth" : orality, print and the 1641 depositions / Marie-Louise Coolahan -- Gaelic texts and English script / Nicholas Williams -- "James Cleland his book" : the library of a small farming family in early nineteenth-century Co. Down / John Moulden -- Reading and orality in early nineteenth-century Ulster poetry : James Orr and his contemporaries / Linde Lunney