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Children, childhood and Irish society, 1500 to the present / Maria Luddy and James M. Smith, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press 2014Description: 441 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781846825255:
  • 1846825253
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.2309415
Contents:
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CW709, CW_HRCYF_M

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[The child and history] Early modern Ireland and the history of the child / Mary O'Dowd -- Children, street trading and the representation of public space in Edwardian Ireland / Gillian McIntosh -- The primary and natural educator? the role of parents in the education of their children in independent Ireland / Mary Daly.

[Charity, welfare and child care] Cribbed, contained and confined? the care of children under the Irish poor law, 1850-1920 / Virginia Crossman -- The early years of the NSPCC in Ireland / Maria Luddy -- Child welfare services, 1970-80: from the Kennedy Committee to the task force / Eoin O'Sullivan -- The "public child" and the reluctant state? / Robbie Gilligan.

[Shaping childhood cultures] "Fiction, amusement, instruction": the Irish Fireside Club and the educational ideology of the Gaelic League / Riona Nic Congail -- "Educate that you might be free": childhood reading in Irish literary autobiography / Claire Lynch -- "Lessons for life": the representation of adult-child relationships in twentieth-century Irish language autobiographical writing / Mairin Nic Eoin -- "In my fathers house": renegotiations of boyhood in life writing by John McGahern, Ciaran O'Driscoll, Dermot Healy and Ciaran Carson.

[Literary imaginings] Jonathan Swifts childhoods / Mary Shine Thompson -- "Suffer the little children": Anglo-Irish revivalism and the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde / Brandon Hernigan -- "Outside the embrace of love": female education and patriarchy in Kate O'Brien's The land of Spices / Eibhear Walshe -- "In my mind I built a house": the quest for family in the children's fiction of Patrica Lynch / Leeann Lane -- "No right to be a child": Irish girlhood and queer time in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's The dancers dancing / Kelly McGovern -- Coming of age in the 1990s: Mary Robinson and the Irish literary childhood / Jane Dougherty.

[Cultural representations] "The children of the nation": representations of poor children in mainstream nationalist journalism, 1882 and 1913 / Margot Backus -- Loss of innocents: the Irish child and cinema / Ruth Barton -- Age as a category of analysis in the history of childhood / Harry Hendrick.

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