Hello -- more trumpets and drums: people on this list might be interested
in the following book, just released with Four Courts Press (Dublin):
Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540-1660
Thomas Herron & Michael Potterton, editors
This book brings to life the cross-currents of European 'Renaissance'
culture in Ireland, primarily outside the Pale. Essays focus on institutions
such as Peter White's grammar school in Kilkenny; monuments, including the
funeral art of Kilkenny and Lord Deputy Sir Henry Sidney's decorated stone
bridge at Athlone; buildings such as the fortified houses of Laois-Offaly,
the decorated Butler mansion at Carrick-on-Suir and Sir Walter Raleigh's
house in Youghal; maps, including the sinister colonial cartography of
Richard Bartlett; texts such as Counter-Reformation polemic and nationalist
historiography, women's writing from the 1641 rebellion, and the published
Dublin celebrations of King Charles II's Restoration.
http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=108
No article focuses primarily on Spenser, but there is one on Raleigh's house
in Youghal (by Tadhg O'Keeffe), one on Sir Henry Sidney's iconographic stone
bridge at Athlone (by John Bradley) and another on Sidney's Memoir (by Willy
Maley). Sometime Spenser scholars Richard McCabe and Clare Carroll also
have articles in the collection.
Best wishes, Thomas
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