Children, Childhood and Irish Society, 1700 to the Present ― 1500 to the Present

This collection examines how attitudes to children have changed in Ireland over the centuries, and addresses how concepts of childhood in Ireland changed over time. CONTENTS: Harry Hendrick (U Warwick), Age as a category of analysis in the history of childhood; Mary O'Dowd (QUB), Early modern Ireland and the history of the child; DA!ire Keogh (St Pat's, DCU), The Christian Brothers and the formation of youth; Gillian McIntosh (QUB), Children, street trading and public space in Edwardian Ireland; Mary E. Daly (UCD), The role of parents in the education of their children in independent Ireland; Carole Holohan (UCD), Dublin: the reformulation of youth in the 1960s; Virginia Crossman (Oxford Brookes U), Children under the Irish poor law, 1850-1920; Maria Luddy, The early years of the NSPCC in Ireland; Eoin O Sullivan (TCD), Child welfare services, 1970-80; Robbie Gilligan (TCD), The 'public child' and the reluctant state?; RA-ona Nic CongA!il (St Pat's, DCU), The Irish Fireside Club and the Gaelic League; Ciaran O'Neill (TCD), The Irish schoolboy novel; Claire Lynch (Brunel U, London), Childhood reading in Irish memoirs; MA!irA-n NicEoin (St Pat's, DCU), Adult-child relationships in Irish-language writing; Barry Sloan (U Southampton), Boyhood in life-writing; Mary Shine Thomson (St Pat's, DCU), Jonathan Swift's childhoods; Brandon Jernigan (U Illinois), Irish revivalism and the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde; Eibhear Walshe (UCC), Female education and queer patriarchy in Kate O'Brien's 'The land of spices'; Leann Lane (Mater Dei), Family in the children's fiction of Patricia Lynch; Kelly McGovern (U Maryland), A?ilA-s NA- Dhuibhne's 'The dancers dancing'; Jane Elizabeth Dougherty (Southern Illinois U), Mary Robinson and the Irish literary childhood; Margot Backus (U Houston), Children in nationalist journalism; Anne Markey (TCD), Reading Ireland through adolescence; Ruth Barton (TCD), Irish cinema and the child.