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.
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.
Children of the Rising
Children of the Rising - 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 Children of the Rising write by Joe Duffy. This book was released on 2015-10-08. Children of the Rising available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now. Boys, girls, rich, poor, Catholic, Protestant - no child was guaranteed immunity from the bullet and bomb that week, in a place where teeming tenement life existed side by side with immense wealth. Drawing on extensive original research, along with interviews with relatives, Joe Duffy creates a compelling picture of these forty lives, along with one of the cut and thrust of city life between the two canals a century ago. This gripping story of Dublin and its people in 1916 will add immeasurably to our understanding of the Easter Rising. Above all, it honours the forgotten lives, largely buried in unmarked graves, of those young people who once called Dublin their home.
An Irish Country Childhood
An Irish Country Childhood - 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 An Irish Country Childhood write by Marie Walsh. This book was released on 2010-03-01. An Irish Country Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'As a child I would sit on the stone wall as if hypnotised, imagining that the world ended where the moutains and the sky met and wishing I could stand at the top and touch the heavens.' This enchanting story tells of a young girl's magical childhood on a farm in the west of Ireland during the 1930s and 1940s. It looks at the mountain-village community, one that was poor, though never short of the necessities of life.
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 Alexander Norman Jeffares. This book was released on 1992. Irish Childhoods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
