Children's Literature Collections

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Pádraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan

1.    Instruction with Delight: Evidence of Children as Readers in Eighteenth-Century Ireland from the Collections of Dublin City Library and Archive
       Máire Kennedy 2.    Irish Children's Books 1696-1810: Importation, Exportation and the Beginnings of Irish Children's Literature

       Anne Markey

3.    The Great Famine in Irish History Textbooks, 1900-1971

       Ciara Boylan
4.    The Development of the Irish Immigrant Experience in Irish-American Children's Literature 1850-1900       Ciara Gallagher

5.    Time and the Child: The Case of Maria Edgeworth's Early Lessons

       Aileen Douglas

6.    Picking Grandmamma's Pockets

       Jarlath Killeen and Marion Durnin

7.    From Superstition to Enchantment: The Evolution of T. Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

       Ciara Ní Bhroin

8.    'Firing for the Hearth': Storytelling, Landscape and Padraic Colum's The Big Tree of Bunlahy

       Pádraic Whyte
9.    Kildare Place Society and the Beginnings of Formal Education in Ireland       Susan M. Parkes
10.  Homespun Books: Creating an Irish National Children's Literature       Julie Anne Stevens

Keith O'Sullivan is Lecturer in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, Ireland. He recently co-edited Children's Literature and New York City (2014) and Irish Children's Literature and Culture: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing (2011). In 2013, he was co-recipient of a major Government of Ireland/Irish Research Council award to establish a National Collection of Children's Books.




Pádraic Whyte is Assistant Professor of English and a director of the master's programme in Children's Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Irish Childhoods (2011) and co-editor of Children's Literature and New York City (2014). He was co-recipient of a major Irish Research Council/Government of Ireland award to establish a National Collection of Children's Book.