Children's literature on the move

Politics and ideology in children's literature

Marian Thérèse Keyes & Áine McGillicuddy editors

The seventh volume in the Studies in Children's Literature series, this volume examines how children’s books retain the ability to transform, activate, indoctri…

Young Irelands

Studies in children's literature

Mary Shine Thompson, editor

The essays in this book, the fourth in the Studies in Children’s Literature Series, examine how various texts read by children since the eighteenth century refl…

Studies in children's literature, 1500–2000

Celia Keenan & Mary Shine Thompson editors

Ranging from the fundamental question, whether a children's literature is possible, or what its formal and contextual parameters might be, to the exigent issues…

Treasure Islands

Studies in children's literature

Celia Keenan & Mary Shine Thompson editors

Ranging from Daniel Defoe to Siobhán Parkinson, from Shakespeare to Enid Blyton, this collection of essays takes the reader on a fascinating voyage to the Treas…

Children, childhood and Irish society

1500 to the present

Maria Luddy & James Smith editors

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 w…

Divided worlds

Studies in children's literature

Mary Shine Thompson & Valerie Coghlan, editors

This volume, the third collection of studies in children's literature, explores the political, social and cultural divisions that dominate children's books, ran…

Children's fiction, 1765–1808

by John Carey; Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell; and Henry Brooke

Anne Markey, editor

The present volume offers a pioneering selection of stories for children, published between 1765 and 1808 by Irish authors. Learning better than House and Land …

The country of the young

Interpretations of youth and childhood in Irish culture

John Countryman & Kelly Mathews, editors

Throughout the history of modern Ireland, cultural representations of youth and childhood have served as focal points for discussions of social and political is…