Irish Childhoods

Author : Pádraic Whyte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443830959

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Irish Childhoods by Pádraic Whyte Pdf

While much has been written about Irish culture’s apparent obsession with the past and with representing childhood, few critics have explored in detail the position of children’s fiction within such discourses. This book serves to redress these imbalances, illuminating both the manner in which children’s texts engage with complex cultural discourses in contemporary Ireland and the significant contribution that children’s novels and films can make to broader debates concerning Irish identity at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Through close analysis of specific books and films published or produced since 1990, Irish Childhoods offers an insight into contrasting approaches to the representation of Irish history and childhood in recent children’s fiction. Each chapter interrogates the unique manner in which an author or filmmaker engages with twentieth century Irish history from a contemporary perspective, and reveals that constructions of childhood in Irish children’s fiction are often used to explore aspects of Ireland’s past and present.

Author : Maria Luddy,James M. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Child development
ISBN : 1846825253

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Children, Childhood and Irish Society, 1500 to the Present by Maria Luddy,James M. Smith Pdf

"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."--Goodreads.com.

Author : Alexander Norman Jeffares,Antony Kamm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 0717120198

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Irish Childhoods by Alexander Norman Jeffares,Antony Kamm Pdf

Author : Ruth Illingworth
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750986731

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A 1950s Irish Childhood by Ruth Illingworth Pdf

1950s Ireland was the age of De Valera and John Charles McQuaid. It was the age before television, Vatican II, and home central heating. A time when motor cars and public telephones had wind-up handles, when boys wore short trousers and girls wore ribbons, when nuns wore white bonnets and priests wore black hats in church. To the young people of today, the 1950s seem like another age. But for those who played, learned and worked at this time, this era feels like just yesterday. This delightful collection of memories will appeal to all who grew up in 1950s Ireland and will jog memories about all aspects of life as it was.

Author : Alexander Norman Jeffares,Antony Kamm
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0006371620

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An Irish Childhood by Alexander Norman Jeffares,Antony Kamm Pdf

Author : Damian Corless
Publisher : Hachette Ireland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444726046

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You'll Ruin Your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish childhood by Damian Corless Pdf

Whether your taste was for fiddlestix or Flavour Ravers, Trigger bars or Two and Twos, Marathons or macaroons, Peggy's Legs or Push Pops, Liquorice Allsorts or Little Devils, You'll Ruin Your Dinner has something for you. From the heyday of Cleeve's toffee to the birth of the Tayto Cheese & Onion crisp, it transports us back to the days when sweet shop windows across the country boasted tempting confectionery displays, when summer was heralded with a visit from the ice-cream cart, and when Grafton Street was the sweet shop capital of Ireland. And then there was the golden age of Irish-made sweets, when the entire nation downed tools to listen to Fry-Cadbury's soap The Kennedys of Castleross and Gay Byrne cut his teeth on The Urney Programme. The next three decades brought enduring favourites along with fleeting fads, but the craving for a sugar-rush remained steadfast for generations of Irish kids to come. These mouth-watering memories are captured here across the decades in an assortment that will keep you dipping back in for more - and it won't ruin your dinner.

Author : Mary Hatfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192581457

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Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Mary Hatfield Pdf

Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked history. Mary Hatfield explores these questions and more in this comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland. Many modern ideas about Irish childhood have their roots in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, when an emerging middle-class took a disproportionate role in shaping the definition of a 'good' childhood. This study deconstructs several key changes in medical care, educational provision, and ideals of parental care. It takes an innovative holistic approach to the middle-class child's social world, by synthesising a broad base of documentary, visual, and material sources, including clothes, books, medical treatises, religious tracts, photographs, illustrations, and autobiographies. It offers invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.

Author : Keith O'Sullivan,Valerie Coghlan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136825101

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Irish Children's Literature and Culture by Keith O'Sullivan,Valerie Coghlan Pdf

Irish Children’s Literature and Culture looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with major genres, forms, and issues, including the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, ethnicity, and globalization. It contextualizes modern Irish children’s literature in relation to Irish mythology and earlier writings, as well as in relation to Irish writing for adults, thereby demonstrating the complexity of this fascinating area. What constitutes a "national literature" is rarely straightforward, and it is especially complex when discussing writing for young people in an Irish context. Until recently, there was only a slight body of work that could be classified as "Irish children’s literature" in comparison with Ireland’s contribution to adult literature in the twentieth century. The contributors to the volume examine a range of texts in relation to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and children’s literature internationally, raising provocative questions about the future of the topic. Irish Children’s Literature and Culture is essential reading for those interested in Irish literature, culture, sociology, childhood, and children’s literature. Valerie Coghlan, Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, is a librarian and lecturer. She is a former co-editor of Bookbird: An International Journal of Children's Literature. She has published widely on Irish children's literature and co-edited several books on the topic. She is a former board member of the IRSCL, and a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature, Children's Books Ireland, and IBBY Ireland. Keith O’Sullivan lectures in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin. He is a founder member of the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature, a former member of the board of directors of Children’s Books Ireland, and past chair of the Children’s Books Ireland/Bisto Book of the Year Awards. He has published on the works of Philip Pullman and Emily Brontë.

Author : Anne Mac Lellan,Alice Mauger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0716531607

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Growing Pains by Anne Mac Lellan,Alice Mauger Pdf

Despite the immense interest sparked by recent child abuse and orphan vaccination trials, the history of childhood illness in Ireland has remained largely hidden. Spanning two centuries, Growing Pains is the first history of Ireland's unique social, cultural, and political responses to safeguarding childhood health and treating physically, psychologically, and socially vulnerable children. The book also investigates medical management in the home, hospitals, reformatories, industrial schools, and workhouses - places where treatments ranged from the unorthodox to the experimental. Growing Pains provides an account of infectious and non-infectious diseases, such as rickets, smallpox, tuberculosis, Spanish flu, epilepsy, and opthalmia, and it explores community and institutional responses to these illnesses across the centuries, as well as describing the medical pioneers who fought for better treatment and condition for Ireland's children.

Author : Marie Walsh
Publisher : Metro Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857826548

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An Irish Country Childhood by Marie Walsh Pdf

'As a child I would sit on the stone wall as if hypnotised, imagining that the world ended where the moutains and the sky met and wishing I could stand at the top and touch the heavens.' This enchanting story tells of a young girl's magical childhood on a farm in the west of Ireland during the 1930s and 1940s. It looks at the mountain-village community, one that was poor, though never short of the necessities of life.

Author : Dillon Johnston
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815604319

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Irish Poetry after Joyce by Dillon Johnston Pdf

William Butler Yeats has been long considered the standard by which all Irish poetry is judged. Even the best of his immediate successors could not be liberated from Yeats's influence. In a new edition of his groundbreaking work, Dillon Johnston elaborates on the premise that many of Ireland's new voices do not follow the Yeatsian model—the singular lyric or odic voice; rather, they rely on Joyce for an interplay of dramatic voices. Johnston describes the world that contemporary poets have inherited: the legacies of Yeats and Joyce, the conflict of Unionism and Nationalism, the Irish language itself, and the politics of literature after World War II. He then explores the poetry of successors to both Yeats and Joyce. Austin Clarke is paired with Thomas Kinsella, Patrick Kavanagh with Seamus Heaney, Denis Devlin with John Montague, and Louis MacNeice with Derek Mahon. This edition, encompassing major poets of the last fifty-five years, includes the work of Paul Muldoon, Richard Murphy, Eavan Boland, Medbh McGuckian, and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain.

Author : Joe Duffy
Publisher : Hachette Ireland
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473617049

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Children of the Rising by Joe Duffy Pdf

Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now. Boys, girls, rich, poor, Catholic, Protestant - no child was guaranteed immunity from the bullet and bomb that week, in a place where teeming tenement life existed side by side with immense wealth. Drawing on extensive original research, along with interviews with relatives, Joe Duffy creates a compelling picture of these forty lives, along with one of the cut and thrust of city life between the two canals a century ago. This gripping story of Dublin and its people in 1916 will add immeasurably to our understanding of the Easter Rising. Above all, it honours the forgotten lives, largely buried in unmarked graves, of those young people who once called Dublin their home.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264501157

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Strengthening Early Childhood Education and Care in Ireland Review on Sector Quality by OECD Pdf

In supporting children’s development, countries invest in the future successes of economies and societies. Awareness of the critical role early childhood education and care (ECEC) plays in setting a strong foundation for children’s learning, development and well-being has grown among policy makers worldwide.

Author : Hugo Hamilton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408171202

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The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton Pdf

Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant, and at times very funny family drama of homesickness, control and identity. As a young boy, Hugo Hamilton struggles with what it means to be speckled, "half and half... Irish on top and German below." An idealistic Irish father enforces his cultural crusade by forbidding his son to speak English while his German mother tries to rescue him with her warm-hearted humour and uplifting industry. The boy must free himself from his father and from bullies on the street who persecute him with taunts of Nazism. Above all he must free himself from history and from the terrible secrets of his mother and father before he can find a place where he belongs. Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and to turn the strange logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of the parents' wardrobe have been laid bare.

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Children
ISBN : 0760706638

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Great Irish Stories of Childhood by Peter Haining Pdf

The collection of twenty-five stories of childhood in Ireland is written by many celebrated Irish voices.