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Young Irelands : studies in children's literature / Mary Shine Thompson, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Studies in children's literature (Dublin, Ireland) ; 4.Publication details: Dublin : Four Courts Press, c2011.Description: 197 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 978-1-84682-141-7 (hbk.)
  • 1-84682-141-X (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.99282 23
Contents:
Introduction: childhood and the nation / Mary Shine Thompson -- "The fate of empires depends on the education of youth": Maria Edgeworth's writing for children / Sharon Murphy -- Arthur Mee, the "happy wonderer": instructing children and constructing knowledge in the children's encyclopedia / Joy Alexander -- The propaganda of Na Fianna Éireann, 1909-26 / Marnie Hay -- "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 -- Recovering a heroic past: the Táin retold / Ciara Ní Bhroin -- Kate Thompson, James Stephens and the Irish literary landscape / Anne Marie Herron -- Irish and European echoes in Oscar Wilde's fairy tales / Anne Markey -- Narnia: the last battle of the imaginative man / Jane O'Hanlon -- Bellsybabble for the childers / Valerie Coghlan -- A French perspective on the Irishness of Morgan Llywelyn's Cold places / Coralline Dupuy -- A sense of place? The Irishness of Irish children's literature in translation / Emer O'Sullivan -- Padraic Colum, the Horn book, the Irish in American children's literature in the early twentieth century / Aedin Clements -- Gulliver travels in the lands of childhood / Mary Shine Thompson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: childhood and the nation / Mary Shine Thompson -- "The fate of empires depends on the education of youth": Maria Edgeworth's writing for children / Sharon Murphy -- Arthur Mee, the "happy wonderer": instructing children and constructing knowledge in the children's encyclopedia / Joy Alexander -- The propaganda of Na Fianna Éireann, 1909-26 / Marnie Hay -- "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 -- Recovering a heroic past: the Táin retold / Ciara Ní Bhroin -- Kate Thompson, James Stephens and the Irish literary landscape / Anne Marie Herron -- Irish and European echoes in Oscar Wilde's fairy tales / Anne Markey -- Narnia: the last battle of the imaginative man / Jane O'Hanlon -- Bellsybabble for the childers / Valerie Coghlan -- A French perspective on the Irishness of Morgan Llywelyn's Cold places / Coralline Dupuy -- A sense of place? The Irishness of Irish children's literature in translation / Emer O'Sullivan -- Padraic Colum, the Horn book, the Irish in American children's literature in the early twentieth century / Aedin Clements -- Gulliver travels in the lands of childhood / Mary Shine Thompson.

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