Nicholas Wolf

Publications

Books

An Irish-Speaking Island: State, Religion, Community, and the Linguistic Landscape in Ireland, 1770-1870 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press), 2014.

Chapters, Articles, and Essays

"Gender and the Irish Language in Post-Famine Ireland," in Gender and History: Ireland, 1852-1922, ed. Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach, and Sarah-Anne Buckley (London: Routledge, 2023), 62-74.
"Restrain, Liberate, Kill: Parsing the Language of Blocking Sickness in Irish Charms," in The Language of Magic, ed. Eleonora Cianci and Nicholas M. Wolf (Milan: LED Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2022), 251-62.
"Antiquarians and Authentics: Survival and Revival in Gaelic Writing," in Irish Literature in Transition, Volume 3:1830–1890, ed. Matthew Campbell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 199-217.
"Native and Non-native Saints in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Irish-Language Charm Historiolas," Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 64:2 (2019): 327-34.
"Nineteenth-Century Charm Texts: Scope and Context," in Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland, ed. Ilona Tuomi, John Carey, and Barbara Hillers (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019), 103-16.
with Margaret Kelleher, "Ireland and the Contemporary Special Issue," Éire-Ireland 52:1&2 (Spring/Summer 2017): 9–16. doi.org/10.1353/eir.2017.0001.
"The National-School System and the Irish Language in the Nineteenth Century," in Schools and Schooling, 1650-2000: New Perspectives on the History of Education, Eighth Seamus Heaney Lectures, ed. James Kelly and Susan Hegarty (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017), 72-92.
"Review Article: Historical and Linguistic Research on the Irish Language," Studia Hibernica 43 (2017): 117-125. doi.org/10.3828/sh.2017.5.
"The Irish-Language Community in New York on the Eve of the Easter Rising" in Ireland's Allies: America and the 1916 Easter Rising, ed. Miriam Nyhan Grey (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2016), 239-56.
with Benjamin Bankhurst, "Mathew Carey, Ireland, and the Politics of Transatlantic Debate," Éire-Ireland 50:3&4 (Fall/Winter 2015): 133–37. doi.org/10.1353/eir.2015.0021.
"Advocacy, the Enlightenment, and the Catholic Print Trade in Mathew Carey's Dublin," Éire-Ireland 49:3&4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 244–69. doi.org/10.1353/eir.2014.0014.
with Benjamin Bankhurst, "Mathew Carey and Dublin," Éire-Ireland 49:3&4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 172–75. doi.org/10.1353/eir.2014.0021.
"Irish Scribal Culture as a Purveyor of Charm Texts in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Incantatio 3 (2013): 33–42. doi.org/10.7592/Incantatio2013_Wolf.
"History and Linguistics: The Irish Language as a Case Study in Interdisciplinary Approach to Culture," in Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography, Studies in Historical Linguistics 9, ed. Nils Langer, Steffan Davies, and William Vandenbusshe (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), 49–66. dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0230-1.
"Grammars in Search of a Corpus: Pre-Revival Guides to the Irish Language," Australasian Journal of Irish Studies 12 (2012): 8–24.
"Orthaí and Orthodoxy: Healing Charms in Nineteenth-Century Catholicism," Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honour of James S. Donnelly, Jr., ed. Michael de Nie and Sean Farrell (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010), 125–44.
"Scéal Grinn? Jokes, Puns, and the Shaping of Bilingualism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland," Journal of British Studies 48:1 (January 2009): 51–75. doi.org/10.1086/592502.
"The Irish-Speaking Clergy in the Nineteenth Century: Education, Trends, and Timing," New Hibernia Review 12:4 (Winter 2008): 62–83. doi.org/10.1353/nhr.0.0049.