The Child and History
Early modern Ireland and the history of the child / Mary O'Dowd
Children, street trading and the representation of public space in Edwardian Ireland / Gillian McIntosh
'The primary and natural educator'? : The role of parents in the education of their children in independent Ireland / Mary E. Daly
Charity, Welfare and Child Care
Cribbed, contained and confined? : The care of children under the Irish poor law, 1850{u2013}1920 / Virginia Crossman
The early years of the NSPCC in Ireland / Maria Luddy
Child welfare services, 1970{u2013}80: from the Kennedy Committee to the task force / Eoin O{u2019}Sullivan
The 'public child' and the reluctant state? / Robbie Gilligan
Shaping Childhood Cultures
'Fiction, amusement, instruction' : the Irish Fireside Club and the education ideology of the Gaelic League / Ríona Ní Congáil
The Irish schoolboy novel / Ciaran O{u2019}Neill
'Educate that you might be free' : childhood reading in Irish literary autobiography / Claire Lynch
'Lessons for life' : the representation of adult{u2013}child relationships in twentieth-century Irish-language autobiographical writing / Máirín Nic Eoin
'In my father's house' : renegotiations of boyhood in life writing by John McGahren, Ciaran O{u2019}Driscoll, Dermot Healy and Ciaran Carson / Barry Sloan
Literary Imaginings
Jonathan Swift's childhoods / Mary Shine Thompson
'Suffer the little children' : Irish revivalism and the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde / Brandon Jernigan
'Outside the embrace of love' : female education and queer patriarchy in Kate O{u2019}Brien's The land of spices / Eibhear Walshe
'In my mind I build a house' : the quest for family in the children's fiction of Patricia Lynch / Leeann Lane
'No right to be a child' : Irish girlhood and queer time in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's The dancers dancing / Kelly J.S. McGovern
Coming of age in the 1990s : Mary Robinson and the Irish literary childhood / Jane Elizabeth Dougherty
Cultural Representations
'The children of the nation' : representations of poor children in mainstream nationalist journalism, 1882 and 1913 / Margot Backus
Loss of innocents : Irish cinema and the child / Ruth Barton
Age as a category of analysis in the history of childhood / Harry Hendrick.
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Children, childhood and Irish society, 1500 to the present. ISBN 9781846825255. Published by Four Courts Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
