Young Irelands
By: Mary Shine Thompson, editor
Series: Studies in children's literature -- 4; Studies in children's literature (Dublin, Ireland) -- 4.
Publisher: Four Courts
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781846821417
Subjects: Children's literature, English; Irish authors; History and criticism; National characteristics, Irish, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: childhood and the nation  -- Mary Shine Thompson; title: "The fate of empires depends on the education of youth": Maria Edgeworth's writing for children  -- Sharon Murphy; title: Arthur Mee, the "happy wonderer": instructing children and constructing knowledge in the children's encyclopedia  -- Joy Alexander; title: The propaganda of Na Fianna Éireann, 1909-26  -- Marnie Hay; title: "Tales told in the turflight": the Christian Brothers, Our boys and the representation of Gaelic authenticity in the popular culture of the Irish Free State  -- Michael Flanagan; title: Recovering a heroic past: the Táin retold  -- Ciara Ní Bhroin; title: Kate Thompson, James Stephens and the Irish literary landscape  -- Anne Marie Herron; title: Irish and European echoes in Oscar Wilde's fairy tales  -- Anne Markey; title: Narnia: the last battle of the imaginative man  -- Jane O'Hanlon; title: Bellsybabble for the childers  -- Valerie Coghlan; title: A French perspective on the Irishness of Morgan Llywelyn's Cold places  -- Coralline Dupuy; title: A sense of place? The Irishness of Irish children's literature in translation  -- Emer O'Sullivan; title: Padraic Colum, the Horn book, the Irish in American children's literature in the early twentieth century  -- Aedin Clements; title: Gulliver travels in the lands of childhood -- Mary Shine Thompson.