Bog Child - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bog Child write by Siobhan Dowd. This book was released on 2010-06-08. Bog Child available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him—his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what—a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.
Irish Children's Literature and Culture
Irish Children's Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irish Children's Literature and Culture write by Keith O'Sullivan. This book was released on 2011-03-17. Irish Children's Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What constitutes a ‘national literature’ is rarely straightforward, and it is especially complex when discussing writing for young people in an Irish context. Until recently, there was only a slight body of work that could be classified as ‘Irish children’s literature’ (whatever the parameters) in comparison with Ireland’s contribution to adult literature in the twentieth century. This volume looks critically at Irish writing for children from the 1980s to the present, examining the work of many writers and illustrators and engaging with all the major forms and genres. Topics include the gothic, the speculative, picturebooks, poetry, post-colonial discourse, identity and ethnicity, and globalization. Modern Irish children’s literature is also contextualized in relation to Irish mythology and earlier writings, thereby demonstrating the complexity of this fascinating area. The contributors, who are leading experts in their fields, examine a range of texts in relation to contemporary literary and cultural theory, and also in relation to writing for adults, thereby inviting a consideration of how well writing for a young audience can compare with writing for an adult one. This groundbreaking work is essential reading for all interested in Irish literature, childhood, and children’s literature.
Bog Child
Bog Child - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bog Child write by Adrian Flynn. This book was released on 2009. Bog Child available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exciting and skilful adaptations of a range of modern novels. New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis, and structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing.
Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory
Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory write by Rebecca Long. This book was released on 2021-03-25. Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children's literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892, when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter 1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving, re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body of work.
Irish Childhoods
Irish Childhoods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irish Childhoods write by Pádraic Whyte. This book was released on 2011-05-25. Irish Childhoods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While much has been written about Irish culture’s apparent obsession with the past and with representing childhood, few critics have explored in detail the position of children’s fiction within such discourses. This book serves to redress these imbalances, illuminating both the manner in which children’s texts engage with complex cultural discourses in contemporary Ireland and the significant contribution that children’s novels and films can make to broader debates concerning Irish identity at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Through close analysis of specific books and films published or produced since 1990, Irish Childhoods offers an insight into contrasting approaches to the representation of Irish history and childhood in recent children’s fiction. Each chapter interrogates the unique manner in which an author or filmmaker engages with twentieth century Irish history from a contemporary perspective, and reveals that constructions of childhood in Irish children’s fiction are often used to explore aspects of Ireland’s past and present.
