Irish classrooms and British Empire

The Irish Hedge School and its books, 1695–1831

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[Now in its 4th printing.] This definitive book studies the hedge schools and texts that were common in the country for over one hundred and thirty-six years. For...
Author/Editor: Antonia McManus

'The fire i' the flint'

Essays on the creative imagination

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Seamus Heaney and other eminent artists, scientists and commentators examine what happens when art is created. Is the imagination still seen as the driving force of creativity within...
Author/Editor: Mary Shine Thompson, editor

Politics and ideology in children's literature

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The seventh volume in the Studies in Children's Literature series, this volume examines how children’s books retain the ability to transform, activate, indoctrinate or empower their readers. From...
Author/Editor: Marian Thérèse Keyes & Áine McGillicuddy editors

Children, childhood and Irish society

1500 to the present

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Studies of Irish children’s literature are relatively numerous in Ireland, and yet the study of children and childhood, and the concepts associated with these words, is really just...
Author/Editor: Maria Luddy & James Smith editors

Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland

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This collection of essays offers new and challenging perspectives on the history of philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland, shifting and extending standard analyses to include state and voluntary philanthropy,...
Author/Editor: Laurence M. Geary & Oonagh Walsh editors