This essay explores the movements in and of Irish-authored
publications, including those of Regina Maria Roche, produced by the leading
publisher of early-nineteenth century Irish gothic, London’s Minerva Press. It investigates how processes of production and circulation
both fixed and expanded the geographical as well as ideological reaches of
Irish gothic literary production, c. 1800-1830. It also addresses the manner in
which the geographic spread in and of these works contributed to an evolving
sense of Irish cultural nationalism often dependent on the mobility of
Irishmen and women, but more frequently associated with the national tale and
allied genres than with the literary gothic.