The country of the young

Interpretations of youth and childhood in Irish culture

John Countryman & Kelly Mathews, editors

Ever so holy: girls, mothers and Catholicism in Irish women’s life-writings, 1850–1950
Cara Delay

The Sisters of Charity and the education of Irish children in Albany, New York, 1828–47
Margaret Lasch Carroll

From ‘the glorious innocence and intuition of youth’ to ‘young blackguards’ and ‘hooligans’: the death of Irish revolutionary youth culture
Gavin Foster

‘Far away from the busy world’: Máirín Cregan’s children’s literature
Susan Cahill

Beyond the Joycean Pale: Ferdia Mac Anna’s Howth Castle and Environs
Thomas O’Grady

Anne Enright’s family gatherings: lies, secrets and silence
Caitriona Moloney

Claire Keengan’s Foster: the child, the Famine, the future
Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt

They were only kids: public reconciliation for misguided youth in Five minutes of heaven
Nicole R. McClure

Child’s play: the drama of Christina Reid
Charlotte J. Headrick