The Country of the young
Subtitle: interpretations of youth and childhood in Irish culture
By: John Countryman and Kelly Matthews, editors
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781846824111
Subjects: Youth; Social life and customs; Children; Youth in literature; Children in literature
Description: "Throughout the history of modern Ireland, cultural representations of youth and childhood have served as focal points for discussions of social and political issues. Topics for the essays in this collection range from Famine-era women's autobiographies to filmic portrayals of post-Good Friday Northern Ireland; from considerations of Patrick Pearse and Máirín Cregan to Anne Enright and Claire Keegan. The result is a complex and provocative view of childhood experiences in modern Ireland, and of the ways in which youth and childhood have been interpreted in the work of Irish writers, politicians, dramatists and filmmakers."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ever so holy: girls, mothers and Catholicism in Irish women's life-writings, 1850-1950 / Cara Delay; title: The Sisters of Charity and the education of Irish children in Albany, New York, 1828-47 / Margaret Lasch Carroll; title: From 'the glorious innocence and intuition of youth' to 'young blackguards' and 'hooligans': the death of Irish revolutionary youth culture / Gavin Foster; title: 'Far away from the busy world': Máirín Cregan's children's literature / Susan Cahill; title: Beyond the Joycean Pale: Ferdia Mac Anna's Howth Castle and Environs / Thomas O'Grady; title: Anne Enright's family gatherings: lies, secrets and silence / Caitriona Moloney; title: Claire Keengan's Foster: the child, the Famine, the future / Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt; title: They were only kids: public reconciliation for misguided youth in Five minutes of heaven / Nicole R. McClure; title: Child's play: the drama of Christina Reid / Charlotte J. Headrick.