Overview
- Opens up scholarship on Irish children and childhood during a pivotal period in Ireland’s history, when political independence was achieved
- Considers how children were constructed as part of the idealisation and consolidation of the state before and after its foundation
- Addresses an overlooked period in Irish children’s history, approaching it from a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Education and Learning
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Literature and Language
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Material Culture and Organised Activity
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ciara Gallagher is an independent scholar and previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the National Collection of Children’s Books project in Ireland. Her research interests include colonial and postcolonial children’s literature, Irish children’s literature, and contemporary Indian children’s literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Constructions of the Irish Child in the Independence Period, 1910-1940
Editors: Ciara Boylan, Ciara Gallagher
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92822-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92821-0Published: 15 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06525-6Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92822-7Published: 21 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6532
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 317
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, History of Modern Europe, Cultural History, Childhood, Adolescence and Society