Young Irelands

Studies in children's literature

Mary Shine Thompson, editor

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 the 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, and the Irish in American children’s literature in the early twentieth century
Aedín Clements

Gulliver travels in the lands of childhood
Mary Shine Thompson