Critical Writing on Irish Children’s Literature since 2000 // Articles // breac // University of Notre Dame

This is a guide to critical works on Irish children’s literature. The bibliography includes citations of books and articles on work by Irish authors and illustrators, work set in Ireland, and on children’s literature where an Irish author, illustrator, or work is discussed. The bibliography includes books and journals published since 2000.

Citations appear multiple times, as appropriate, under various subject headings.

Collections

Adams, Róisín, Claire M. Dunne, and Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn, eds. Thar an Tairseach: Aistí ar litríocht agus cultúr na nóg. Dublin: LeabhairComhar, 2014.

Coghlan, Valerie and Celia Keenan, eds. The Big Guide 2: Irish Children’s Books. Dublin: Children’s Books Ireland, 2000.

Coghlan, Valerie and Keith O’Sullivan, eds. Irish children’s literature and culture: New perspectives on contemporary writing. NY: Routledge, 2011.

Coghlan, Valerie and Siobhán Parkinson, eds. Irish children’s writers and illustrators 1986-2006: a selection of essays. Dublin: Church of Ireland College of Education Publications, 2007.

Keenan, Celia and Mary Shine Thompson, eds. Studies in Children’s Literature, 1500-2000. Dublin: Four Courts, 2004.

Keyes, Marian Thérese and Áine McGillicuddy, eds. Politics and ideology in children’s literature. Dublin: Four Courts, 2014.

Maguire, Nora and Beth Rodgers, eds. Children’s literature on the move: Nation, translations, migrations. Dublin: Four Courts, 2013.

Ní Bhroin, Ciara and Patricia Kennon, eds. What do we tell the children? Critical essays on children’s literature. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

Nic Congáil Ríona, ed. Codladh céad bliain: Cnuasach aistí ar litríocht na nóg. Dublin: LeabhairComhar, 2012.

Nic Lochlainn, Caoimhe and Ríona Nic Congáil, eds. Laethanta Gréine & Oícheanta Sí: Aistí ar litríocht agus ar chultúr na nÓg. Dublin: LeabhairComhar, 2013.

Tebbutt, Susan and Joachim Fischer, eds. Intercultural connections within German and Irish children’s literature. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008.

Thompson, Mary Shine and Valerie Coghlan, eds. Divided worlds: Studies in children’s literature. Dublin: Four Courts, 2007.

Thompson, Mary Shine and Celia Keenan, eds. Treasure islands: Studies in children’s literature. Dublin: Four Courts, 2006.

Thompson, Mary Shine, ed. Young Irelands: Studies in Children’s Literature. Dublin: Four Courts, 2011.

General Works

Barber, Irene. “Encouraging the reluctant reader—primary.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 11-20.

Donlon, Pat. “Books for Irish children.” In The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. V, edited by Claire Hutton and Patrick Walsh, 367-389. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Jenkinson, Biddy. “Scéal ar an litríocht: ‘Chuaigh Micilín Muc ar an aonach lá…’” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 221-234.

Markey, Anne. “Irish children’s fiction, 1727-1820.” Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies 41, no. 1 (2011): 115-32.

Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís. “Borderlands: Dead bog and living landscape.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish Children’s Literature and Culture, 29-39.

O’Shea, Finian. “Book awards.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 139-144.

O’Sullivan, Emer. “At the periphery of the periphery: Children’s literature, global and local.” In Global Fragments: (Dis)orientation in the New World Order, edited by Anke Bartels and Dirk Wiemann, 241-258. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.

Piesse, A. J. “Islands, Ireland and the changing state of writing for children.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure islands, 153-161.

Reniero, Claire. “A historical survey of children’s book publishing in Ireland/Panorama historique de l’édition de jeunesse en Irlande.” Revue LISA/LISA E-Journal 3, no.1 (2005): 99-109.

Tebbutt, Susan and Joachim Fischer. “Intercultural connections within German and Irish children’s literature: An introduction.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural Connections, 9-17.

Thompson, Mary Shine. “A sense of place in Irish children’s books.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 95-102.

Watson, Nancy. The politics and poetics of Irish children’s literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

Whyte, Pádraic. “Children’s literature.” In The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. IV: The Irish Book in English, 1800-1891. Edited by James Murphy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Authors

CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER

Dunbar, Carole. “The depiction of class in Mrs Alexander’s Hymns for little children.” Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 159-169.

SEBASTIAN BARRY

Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís. “Transcending genre: Sebastian Barry’s juvenile fiction.” In Out of history: Essays on the writings of Sebastian Barry, edited by Christina Hunt Mahony, 25-36. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2006.

JOHN BOYNE

Maguire, Nora. “‘What Bruno knew’: Childhood innocence and models of morality in John Boyne’s The Boy in the striped pyjamas (2006).” In Ní Bhroin and Kennon, What do we tell the children?, 56-73.

EOIN COLFER

Christensen, Samantha. “Eoin Colfer: Ireland, author.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature 50, no. 2 (2012): 31.

Keenan, Celia. “Eoin Colfer.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 20-28.

PÁDRAIC COLUM

Clements, Aedín. “Pádraic Colum, the Horn Book, and the Irish in American children’s literature in the early twentieth century.” In Thompson and Keenan, Young Irelands, 154-163.

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan. “Folklore and writing for children in twentieth-century Ireland: Padraic Colum, Patricia Lynch and Eilís Dillon.” In Folklore and modern Irish writing, edited by Anne Markey and Anne O’Connor, 113-128. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2014.

MARITA CONLON-MCKENNA

Watson, Nancy. The politics and poetics of Irish children’s literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

MÁIRÍN CREGAN

Cahill, Susan. “‘Far away from the busy world’: Máirín Cregan’s children’s literature.” In The country of the young: Interpretations of youth and childhood in Irish culture, edited by John Countryman and Kelly Matthews, 70-85. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013.

SINÉAD DE VALERA

Kirwan-Keane, Siobhán. “Sinéad de Valera agus drámaíocht Ghaelach na nóg.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 45-62.

EILÍS DILLON

Herron, Anne Marie. “‘Don’t let the fire go out’: Echoes of the past, aspirations for the future in the teenage novels of Eilís Dillon.” In Keyes and McGillicuddy, Politics and ideology, 72-82.

Ní Bhroin, Ciara. “Forging national identity: The adventure stories of Eilís Dillon.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 112-119.

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan. “Daddies and telephones: The wild and the tame in children’s literature.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure Islands, 187-199.

---. “Folklore and writing for children in twentieth-century Ireland: Padraic Colum, Patricia Lynch and Eilís Dillon.” In Markey and O’Connor, Folklore and modern Irish writing, 113-128.

Ó Cuilleanáin, Cormac. “Growing up in a writer’s head.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure Islands: Studies in Children’s Literature, 200-208.

O’Brien, Breege. “Imagining an island place: the island as setting in children’s literature in Ireland.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure Islands, 178-186.

Parkinson, Siobhán. “From Utopia to Terabithia: ‘Island’ literature as Edenic fantasy.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure Islands, 162-171.

Watson, Nancy. “Traditional loyalties and liberal values in Eilís Dillon’s The Island of Ghosts.” In Thompsoon and Keenan, Treasure islands, 172-177.

---. The politics and poetics of Irish children’s literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

SIOBHAN DOWD

Coghlan, Valerie. “‘A homesick love’: Emigrant echoes of maternal love in the novels of Siobhan Dowd.” In Maguire and Rodgers, Children’s literature on the move, 87-99.

---. “‘What foot does he dig with?’ Inscriptions of religious and cultural identity.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish Children’s Literature, 55-69.

Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís. “Borderlands: Dead bog and living landscape.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish Children’s Literature, 29-39.

Resene, Michelle. “A ‘Curious Incident’: Representations of autism in children’s detective fiction.” The Lion and the Unicorn 40, no. 1 (2016): 81-99.

MARTIN DUFFY

Whyte, Pádraic. Irish Childhoods: Children’s Fiction and Irish History. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

MARIA EDGEWORTH

Alker, Sharon. “Explosive potential: Radicals and chemistry in Maria Edgeworth’s fiction.” European Romantic Review 22, no. 1 (2011):” 1-18.

Booker, Colleen. What’s luck got to do with it? Reading the East in Maria Edgeworth’s ‘Murad the Unlucky.’” Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children’s Literature 10, no. 1 (2006): n.p.

Fernández Rodríguez, Carmen María. “Maria Edgeworth and children’s literature: The translation of The Parent’s Assistant (1796) into Spanish.” ES: Revista de Filología Inglesa 34 (2013): 131-150.

Murphy, Sharon. “‘The fate of empires depends on the education of youth’: Maria Edgeworth’s writing for children.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 22-36.

Holt, Jenny. “‘Normal’ versus ‘deviant’ play in children’s literature: An historical overview.” The Lion and the Unicorn 34, no. 1 (2010): 34-56.

Manly, Susan. “Take a ‘Poon, Pig’: Property, class, and culture in Maria Edgeworth’s ‘Simple Susan.’” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (CLAQ) 37, no. 3 (2012): 306-322.

---. “Introduction.” In Selected tales for children and young people, by Maria Edgeworth. Edited by Susan Manly. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Murphy, Sharon. Maria Edgeworth and Romance. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004.

Ní Bhroin, Ciara. “A divided union: Reformation and reconciliation in Maria Edgeworth’s Orlandino.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 22-31.

Norcia, Megan A. “The London shopscape: Educating the child consumer in the stories of Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Martha Sherwood.” Children’s Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children’s Literature and The Children’s Literature Association 41 (2003): 28-56.

Piesse, Amanda. “Fictionalizing families.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish Children’s literature, 85-98.

Sotiropoulos, Carol Strauss. “Where words fail: Rational education unravels in Maria Edgeworth’s The Good French Governess.” Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly 32, no. 4 (2001): 305-321.

Smyth, Andrew. “‘That this here box be in the nature of a trap’: Maria Edgeworth’s pedagogical gardens, Ireland, and the education of the poor.” In Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood, edited by James Holt McGavran, 40-55. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012.

Weiss, Deborah. “Maria Edgeworth’s infant economics: Capitalist culture, good-will networks and ‘Lazy Lawrence.’” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 37, no. 3 (2014): 395-408.

ANNA MARIA FIELDING HALL

Keyes, Marian Thérèse. “Paratexts and gender politics: a study of selected works by Anna Maria Fielding Hall.” In Keyes and McGillicuddy, Politics and ideology, 141-156.

FITZPATRICK, MARIE-LOUISE

Jacob, Lucinda. “Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 29-43.

MAEVE FRIEL

Keenan, Celia.” Maeve Friel.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 45-52.

JAMES HENEGHAN

Ó Gallchóir, Clíona. “Irish-Canadian children’s literature and Canadian national identity: Caroline Pignat and James Heneghan.” In Maguire and Rodgers, Children’s literature on the move, 100-115.

MARION KING

Adams, Róisín. “Marion King agus An Gúm: Forbairt litríocht Ghaeilge na nóg I mblianta luatha an Ghúim.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta Gréine & Oícheanta Sí, 95-120.

KOSTICK, CONOR

O’Hanlon, Jane. “The ‘aventures of men in the perilous realm’: Portrayals of conflict in two contemporary Irish fantasy novels for ‘tween’ readers.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided Worlds, 86-95.

JAMES JOYCE

Coghlan, Valerie. “Bellsybabble for the childres.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 119-127.

C. S. LEWIS

O’Hanlon, Jane. “Narnia: the last battle of the imaginative man.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 104-118.

Pérez-diez, María del Carmen. “Bridging gaps, waters abating: C. S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure islands, 136-142.

MORGAN LLYWELYN

Dupuy, Coralline. “A French perspective on the Irishness of Morgan Llywelyn’s Cold Places.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 128-136.

PJ LYNCH

Coghlan, Valerie. “PJ Lynch.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 52-69.

PATRICIA LYNCH

Burke, Margaret. “The development of Patricia Lynch’s writing in light of an exploration of new archival material.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 94-102.

Lane, Leeann. “‘In my mind I build a house’: The quest for family in the children’s fiction of Patricia Lynch.” Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies 44, nos. 1-2 (2009): 169-193.

Lanters, José. “The ‘Tinker’ figure in the children’s fiction of Patricia Lynch.” ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 7 (2005): 151-162.

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan. “Folklore and writing for children in twentieth-century Ireland: Padraic Colum, Patricia Lynch and Eilís Dillon.” In Markey and O’Connor, Folklore and modern Irish writing, 113-128.

Nic Lochlainn, Caoimhe. “Asal fhear na mónadh: Aistriúchán Mhaighréad Nic Mhaicín ar shaothar Patricia Lynch.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 69-94.

CORMAC MACRAOIS

Watson, Nancy. The politics and poetics of Irish children’s literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

SAM MCBRATNEY

Morris, Liz. “Sam McBratney.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 71-78.

OISIN MCGANN

L. T. MEADE

Cahill, Susan. “Where Are the Irish Girls? Girlhood, Irishness, and LT Meade.” In Girlhood and the politics of place, edited by Claudia Mitchell and Carrie Rentschler, 212-227. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.

Dunbar, Carole. “The wild Irish girls of L. T. Meade and Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 38-43.

Rodgers, Beth. “‘Enjoy the last of your schoolgirl life’: Making transitions in the girls’ school stories of L. T. Meade (1844-1914) and Raymond Jacberns (1866-1911).” In Ní Bhroin and Kennon, What do we tell the children?, 163-180.

---. “I am glad I am Irish through and through and through: Irish Girlhood and Identity in L.T. Meade’s Light O’ the Morning; or, The Story of an Irish Girl (1899).” In Colonial girlhood in literature, culture and history, 1840-1950, edited by Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith, 154-166. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

---. “Irishness, professional authorship and the ‘wild Irish girls’ of L. T. Meade.” English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 56, no. 2 (2013): 146-66.

---. “L.T. Meade, ‘The Queen of Girls’-Book Makers’: The rise and fall of a Victorian bestseller.” Women’s Writing, Jan. 26, 2016, 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2015.1130991

O. R. MELLING

Ní Bhroin, Ciara. “Recovery of origins: Identity and ideology in the work of O. R. Melling.” In Keyes and McGillicuddy, Politics and ideology, 83-94.

ROSA MULHOLLAND

Cahill, Susan. “Making space for the Irish girl: Rosa Mulholland and Irish girls in fiction at the turn of the century.” In Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950, edited by Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith, 167-179. Basingstoke; Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

ÉILÍS NI DHUIBHNE

Mac Risteaird, Seán and Ronan Doherty. “Hurlamoboc na déaglitríochta: Féiniúlachtaí gnéis sa seomra ranga.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach,181-200.

Markey, Anne. “Hurlamaboc and the coming of age of Irish children’s literature.” In Eilis Ni Dhuibhne: Critical Perspectives, edited by Rebecca Pelan, 151-170. Galway: Arlen House, 2009.

---. “Coming of age and national character at home and abroad.” In Ní Bhroin and Kennon, What do we tell the children?, 113-130.

Ní Bhroin, Ciara. “Elizabeth O’Hara.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 79-88.

Nic Congáil, Ríona. “The changing face of Irish Ireland: Séamus Ó Grianna’s and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s fictions of the Donegal Gaeltacht.” Irish University Review 44, no. 2 (2014): 357-380.

Thompson, Mary Shine. “‘That embarrassing phenomenon: the real thing’: Identity and modernity in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s children’s fiction.” In Eilis Ni Dhuibhne: Critical Perspectives, edited by Rebecca Pelan, 129-150. Galway: Arlen House, 2009.

ÚNA NÍ FHAIRCHEALLAIGH

Nic Congáil, Ríona. Úna Ní Fhearcheallaigh agus an fhís útóipeach Ghaelach. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2010.

Ó DONNCHADHA, TADHG (TORNA)

Ní Ghearbhuigh, Ailbhe. “Aistriúcháin Thorna do pháistí ón bhFraincís.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlaiin, Thar an tairseach, 75-89.

ELIZABETH O’HARA, see: ÉILÍS NÍ DHUIBHNE

JOAN O’NEILL

Whyte, Pádraic. Irish childhoods: Children’s fiction and Irish history. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Ó SÁNDAIR, CATHAL

Adams, Róisín. “‘Baile Átha Cliath abú!’: Cathal Ó Sándair agus an suíomh uirbeach i litríocht Ghaeilge na n-óg.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 135-156.

Nic Congáil, Ríona. “Réics Carló: Gaelachas sa nua-aois.” Comhar 69, no. 5 (2009): 12-18.

Ní Mhulláin, Róisín. “An t-úrscéal scoile (1952-1960): Sraith Chluain Éanna le Cathal Ó Sándair.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 113-133.

PÁDRAIG Ó SIOCHFHRADHA

Mac Maghnuis, Brian. “In oiriúint do pháistí scoile: Leagan scoile an tSeabhaic de Jimín Mháire Thaidhg.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 19-34.

MARK O’SULLIVAN

Piesse, A. J. “Mark O’Sullivan.” In Cohlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 89-96.

Watson, Nancy. The politics and poetics of Irish children’s literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

Whyte, Pádraic. Irish childhoods: Children’s fiction and Irish history. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

---. “Teenage tantrums and territorial traumas: Public and private pasts in Melody for Nora.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 50-60.

SIOBHÁN PARKINSON

Kennon, Patricia. “(W)Rites of passage in Siobhán Parkinson’s novel Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows and One Witch (Maybe).” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure islands, 143-152.

Piesse, A. J. “Siobhán Parkinson.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 97-108.

Watson, Nancy. The politics and poetics of Irish children’s literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

Whyte, Pádraic. Irish Childhoods: Children’s Fiction and Irish History. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

---. “Wars of Independence: The construction of Irish histories in the work of Gerard Whelan and Siobhán Parkinson.” In Keenan and Thopmson, Studies in children’s literature, 1500-2000, 120-129.

P. H. PEARSE (PÁDRAIG MAC PIARAIS)

Bourke, Angela. “The imagined community of Pearse’s Short Stories.” In The Life and After-Life of P. H. Pearse, edited by Róisín Higgins and Regina Uí Chollatáin, 141-155. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

Markey, Anne. “Patrick Pearse, boyish spirituality and Irish national identity.” Thymos, 2, no. 2 (2008): 140-153.

---. “Introduction.” In Patrick Pearse: Short Stories, edited by Anne Markey, vii-xlv. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2009.

---. “Folk practice and belief in the short stories of Patrick Pearse.” In Markey and O’Connor, Folklore and Modern Irish Writing, 97-109.

Ní Ghairbhí, Róisín and Eugene McNulty. “Introduction.” In Patrick Pearse: Collected Plays/Drámaí an Phiarsaigh, edited by Róisín Ní Ghairbhí and Eugene McNulty, 1-63. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2013.

CAROLINE PIGNAT

SOPHIA ROSAMOND PRAEGER

Donlon, Pat. “Sophia Rosamond Praeger (1867-1954): A woman of many talents.” In That woman! Studies in Irish bibliography: A festschrift for Mary “Paul” Pollard, edited by Charles Benson and Siobhán Fitzpatrick, 240-255. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2005.

NIAMH SHARKEY

Short, John. “Niamh Sharkey.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 109-121.

FLORA SHAW

Dunbar, Robert. “Rebuilding Castle Blair: A Reading of Flora Shaw’s 1878 Children’s Novel.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 31-37.

SOMERVILLE AND ROSS

Stevens, Julie Anne. “The little Big House: Somerville & Ross’s works for Children.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 41-49.

JAMES STEPHENS

Herron, Anne Marie. “Kate Thompson, James Stephens and the Irish literary landscape.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 81-91.

MATTHEW SWEENEY

Dunbar, Robert. “Matthew Sweeney.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers,123-131.

Watson, Nancy. The politics and poetics of Irish children’s literature. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.

JONATHAN SWIFT

Hornero, Ana. “Gulliver’s Travels or All’s Well: Film adaptations for a young audience.” In Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children’s Literature, edited by Lance Weldy, 123-134. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Hui, Haifeng. “The changing adaptation strategies of children’s literature: Two centuries of children’s editions of Gulliver’s Travels.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 17, no. 2 (2011): 245-262.

Koenig, Lotta and Carola Surkamp. “Jonathan Swift: Gullivers Reisen. Die spannende reise von der politischen satire zur abenteuergeschichte für kinder und jugendliche” [“Gulliver Travelling: From Political Satire to Adventure Story for Children and Young Adults”], In Unter dem roten Wunderschirm: Lesarten klassischer kinder-und jugendliteratur, edited by Christoph Braüer and Wolfgang Wangerin, 273-86. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013.

Thompson, Mary Shine. “Gulliver travels in the lands of childhood.” In Thompson Young Irelands, 164-186.

---. “Lemuel Gulliver’s children.” In Reading Gulliver: Essays in celebration of Jonathan Swift’s classic, edited by Máire Kennedy, 164-186. Dublin: Dublin Corporation Public Libraries, 2008.

Weber, Stefanie. “Erich Kästner and Gulliver: Of little people and big follies.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural connections, 62-76.

KATE THOMPSON

Dunbar, Robert. “Kate Thompson.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers,133-143.

Hay, Marnie. “What did advanced nationalists tell Irish children in the early twentieth century?” In Ní Bhroin and Kennon, What do we tell the children?, 148-162.

Herron, Anne Marie. “Kate Thompson, James Stephens and the Irish Literary Landscape.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 81-91.

Markey, Anne. “Coming of age and national character at home and abroad.” In Ní Bhroin and Kennon, What do we tell the children?, 113-130.

Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís. “Borderlands: Dead bog and living landscape.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish Children’s Literature, 29-39.

ALAN TITLEY

Coilféir, Máirtín. “An eitic agus an aeistéitic I bhforbairt na nua-litríochta don aos óg agus I saothar Alan Titley.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 185-205.

KATHARINE TYNAN

Epplé, Colette. “‘Wild Irish with a vengeance’: Definitions of Irishness in Katharine Tynan’s children’s literature.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided Worlds, 32-40.

MARTIN WADDELL

O’Dea, Lucy. “Martin Waddell.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers,145-154.

GERARD WHELAN

Redford, Carole. “Gerard Whelan.” In Coghlan and Parkinson, Irish children’s writers, 155-162.

Whyte, Pádraic. “Wars of independence: The construction of Irish histories in the work of Gerard Whelan and Siobhán Parkinson.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 120-129.

OSCAR WILDE

Dunbar, Robert. “Eternal loss and sadness: the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde.” In The Wilde Legacy, edited by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, 85-94. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003.

Killeen, Jarlath. The fairy tales of Oscar Wilde. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

Markey, Anne. “Irish and European echoes in Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 94-103.

---. Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales: Origins and contexts. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011.

---. “Oscar Wilde’s short fiction: The hermeneutics of storytelling.” In Oscar Wilde: Visions and Revisions, Irish Writers in Their Time, edited by Jarlath Killeen, 71-93. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011.

Marsh, Sarah. “Twice upon a time: The importance of rereading ‘The devoted friend.’” Children’s Literature: Annual of the Children’s Literature Association and the Modern Language Association Division on Children’s Literature 36 (2008): 72-87.

Neuhaus, Stefan. “The politics of fairytales: Oscar Wilde and the German tradition.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural Connections, 47-59.

Shillinglaw, Ann. “Fairy Tales and Oscar Wilde’s public charms.” In Oscar Wilde: The man, his writings and the world, edited by Robert N. Keane, 81-91. New York: AMS Press, 2003.

---. “Wilde’s ‘The Remarkable Rocket.’” Explicator 63, no. 4 (2005): 222-225.

Thompson, Mary Shine. “The importance of not being Earnest: Children and Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales.” New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship 7 (2001): 191-204.

Subjects

BOYS’ FICTION

Flanagan, Michael. “‘There is an isle in the western ocean’: the Christian Brothers, Our Boys and the Catholic/nationalist ideology.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure Islands, 43-52.

CANADA

CENSORSHIP

Nic an Bhaird, Máire. “Cumhacht na cinsireachta: Léargas ar an saothar Cumhacht na Cinneamhna le Tomás Bairéad.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 55-74.

CHILDHOOD

De Paor, Pádraig. “Gnéithe de théama na haibíochta i litríocht do dhaoine óga sa Ghaeilge.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 151-171.

Killeen, Jarlath. “Evil innocence: The child and adult in fiction.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 115-127.

Nic Mhathúna, Deirdre. “‘T’athair ionmhain’: Cíoradh téamúil ar an ngaol idir aithreacha agus a gcuid leanaí i roinnt scríbhinní Gaeilge.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 285-304.

Ní Dhonnchadha, Aisling. “‘Ina ríocht féin’: Léirighe ar thréimhse na hóige i ngearrscéalta faoi leith le Seán Mac Mathúna agus Pádraic Breathnach.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 305-328.

O’Sullivan, Keith. “‘Binding with briars’: Romanticizing the child.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 99-114.

Thompson, Mary Shine. “Introduction: Childhood and nation.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 9-21.

DIVERSITY

Dunne, Claire Marie. “Éagsúlacht ar chúl éaga? Léiriú ar an éagsúlacht chultúrtha i litríocht na n-óg.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 157-180.

DRAMA

Kirwan-Keane, Siobhán. “Sinéad de Valera agus drámaíocht Ghaelach na n-óg.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 45-62.

Nic Congáil, Ríona. “Drámaíocht Ghaeilge don aos óg I dtréimhse na hAthbheochana (1900-1920).” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 217-254.

EARLY IRISH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Markey, Anne. “The English governess, her wild Irish pupil, and her wandering daughter: migration and maternal absence in Georgian children’s fiction.” In Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr 25 (2010): 161-176.

---. “Irish children’s fiction, 1727-1820.” In Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies 41, no. 1 (2011): 115-32.

---. “Introduction.” In Children’s Fiction 1765-1808: John Carey, Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell, Henry Brook, edited with an introduction and notes by Anne Markey, 9-29. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.

---. “John Carey and the American dream.” New Hibernia Review 17, no. 2 (2013) 70-85.

---. “Neglected children.” Dublin Review of Books 34 (2013).

---. “Childhood and the early Irish novel.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 9, no. 2 (2016): 247-260.

EDUCATION

Aitken, Ro. “Encouraging the reluctant reader–post-primary.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 45-50.

Bennett, James. “Values and primary school textbooks in Ireland, 1900-99.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 170-185.

Carroll, Áine. “Poetry in Irish primary school English-language readers, 1922-50.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 186-195.

Flanagan, Michael. “‘There is an isle in the Western Ocean’: The Christian Brothers, Our Boys and Catholic/nationalist ideology.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure Islands, 43-52.

Mac Risteaird, Seán and Ronan Doherty. “Hurlamoboc na déaglitríochta: Féiniúlachtaí gnéis sa seomra ranga.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 181-200.

Mhic Mháthúna, Máire and Mairéad Mac Con Iomaire. “Litríocht na nóg sna naíonraí: Na luathbhlianta.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 173-196.

Morris, Liz. “Real books in the classroom: Older readers.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 37-44.

Ní Shiúrtáin, Cáit. “Straitéisí léamhthuisceana chun cur le scileanna smaointeoireachta na bhfoghlaimeoirí óga.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 197-216.

Ó Brolcháin, Conchúr. “Tús na litearthachta Béarla sa luathoideachas Gaeltachta.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 201-220.

O’Dea, Lucy. “Poetry in the classroom.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 28-36.

Perdue, Gillian. “Real books in the lower primary classroom.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 21-27.

Rosenstock, Gabriel. “Writing for children: A sense of oneness.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural connections, 19-24.

FAMILIES

Piesse, Amanda. “Fictionalizing families.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan Irish Children’s literature, 85-98

FAMINE

Keenan, Celia. “The Famine told to the children.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 69-79.

---. “Narrative challenges: The Great Irish Famine in recent stories for children.” In The presence of the past in children’s literature, edited by Ann Lawson Lucas, 113-120. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.

McNamara, Karen Hill. “Children’s literature of the Great Irish Famine: An annotated bibliography.” Foilsiú: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 3, no. 1 (2003): 21-31.

---. “From fairies to famine: How cultural identity is constructed through Irish and Irish American children’s literature.” Children’s Folklore Review 26 (2003): 77-90.

---. “‘It was a life-changing book’: Tracing Cecil Woodham-Smith’s impact on the canon of children’s literature of the Irish Famine.” In Hungry words: Images of famine in the Irish canon, edited by George Cusack and Sarah Goss, 283-299. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005.

---. “The potato eaters: Food collecting in Irish Famine literature for children.” In Critical approaches to food in children’s literature, edited by Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard, 149-166. London: Routledge, 2009.

FANTASY

Kennon, Patricia. “Contemplating otherness: Imagining the future in speculative fiction.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 145-156.

FILM

Keenan, Celia. “Contrasting cinematic versions of the conflict between tradition and modernity in Into the West and Whale Rider.” In Thompson and Celia Keenan, Treasure islands, 126-135.

Whyte, Pádraic. Irish childhoods: Children’s fiction and Irish history. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY

Couzelis, Mary J. “From Old World to New World: The Migration of the ‘Jack Tales.” Journal of Children’s Literature Studies 3, no. 3 (2006): 57-66.

Markey, Anne. “Folk practice and belief in the short stories of Patrick Pearse.” In Markey and O’Connor, Folklore and Modern Irish Writing, 97-109.

McNamara, Karen Hill. “From fairies to famine: How cultural identity is constructed through Irish and Irish American children’s literature.” Children’s Folklore Review 26 (2003): 77-90.

Neuhaus, Stefan. “The politics of fairytales: Oscar Wilde and the German tradition.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural connections, 47-59.

Ní Bhroin, Ciara. “Recovering a heroic past: the Táin retold.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 67-80.

---. “Mythologizing Ireland.” In Coghan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 7–28.

Ní Chuilleanáin, Órla. “An t-aistriúchán cultúrtha in athinsintí ar scéalta miotaseolaíochta na hÉireann, agus ar scéalta sí Grimm agus Perrault.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 21-48.

Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís. “Na Deartháireacha Grimm agus sinne: Tionchar scéalta na nDeartháireacha Grimm ar bhéaloideas na hÉireann agus ar litríocht na nóg.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 49-68.

Uí Mhaicín, Máire. “Gods, heroes, saints and villains of the Celtic other-world in modern readings of old Irish tales.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure islands, 108-117.

GERMANY

Neuhaus, Stefan. “The politics of fairytales: Oscar Wilde and the German tradition.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural connections, 47-59.

O’Sullivan, Emer. “German and Irish literature: A comparative perspective.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural connections, 25-45.

Tebbutt, Susan. “I like Irish-German literature— und du? Intercultural explorations.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural connections, 99-111.

Weber, Stefanie. “Erich Kästner and Gulliver: Of little people and big follies.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural connections, 62-76.

GIRLS IN FICTION

---. “Making space for the Irish girl: Rosa Mulholland and Irish girls in fiction at the turn of the century.” In Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950, edited by Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith, 167-179. Basingstoke; Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Dunbar, Carole. “The wild Irish girls of L. T. Meade and Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 38-43.

---. “Irishness, professional authorship and the ‘wild Irish girls’ of L. T. Meade.” English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 56, no. 2 (2013): 146-66.

---. “L.T. Meade, ‘The Queen of Girls’-Book Makers’: The rise and fall of a Victorian bestseller.” Women’s Writing, Jan. 26, 2016, 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2015.1130991

GOTHIC

Markey, Anne. “‘Walking…into the night’: Growing up with the Gothic.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 129-144.

HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Condon, Janette. “Children’s books in nineteenth-century Ireland.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 53-59.

Dunbar, Robert. “Classic Irish children’s books.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 60-68.

HISTORY

Cahill, Susan. “Cleaning up the mess? The child and nation in historical fiction set between 1890 and 1922.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 41-54.

Flanagan, Michael. “And who will fight for Ireland? The Great War, propaganda and the representation of conflict in children’s popular literature.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 115-125.

Keogh, Dáire. “Our Boys, de Valera’s Ireland and the European Crisis, 1932-9.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 126-138.

Muhle, Eva-Maria. History in Irish historical fiction for children and young adults. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010.

Whyte, Pádraic. Irish childhoods: Children’s fiction and Irish history. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

---. “Wars of independence: The construction of Irish histories in the Work of Gerard Whelan and Siobhán Parkinson.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 120-129.

IRISH LANGUAGE

Adams, Róisín. “Marion King agus An Gúm: Forbairt litríocht Ghaeilge na nóg i mblianta luatha an Ghúim.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Cognail, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 95-120.

De Paor, Pádraig. “Gnéithe de théama na haibíochta i litríocht do dhaoine óga sa Ghaeilge.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 151-171.

Dunne, Claire Marie. “Inis: Léargas ar luach litríocht na Gaeilge don Óige.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Cognail, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 149-172.

Keenan, Celia. “The hunt for ‘Pangur Bán.’” In Maguire and Rodgers, Children’s literature on the move, 59-72.

Ní Bhroin, Ciara. “Recovering a heroic past: The Táin retold.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 67-80.

Ní Chléirigh, Laoise. “An Triantán Beirmiúdach: Spléachadh ar leabhair Ghaeilge don aoisghrúpa 8-13.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 173-184.

Ní Chuilleanáin, Órla. Tíortha na h-óige: Litríocht Ghaeilge na n-óg agus ceisteanna an aistriúchain. Dublin: LeabhairComhar, 2014.

Nic Congail, Ríona, ed. Codladh céad bliain: Cnuasach aistí ar litríocht na nóg. Dublin: LeabhairComhar, 2012.

---. “‘Fiction, amusement, instruction’: The Irish Fireside Club and the educational ideology of the Gaelic League.” Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies 44, nos. 1-2 (2009): 91-117.

---. “Réics Carló: Gaelachas sa nua-aois.” Comhar 69, no. 5 (2009): 12-18.

---. Úna Ní Fhearcheallaigh agus an fhís útóipeach Ghaelach. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2010.

Ní Mhulláin, Róisín. “An t-úrscéal scoile (1952-1960): Sraith Chluain Éanna le Cathal Ó Sándair.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn Thar an tairseach, 113-133.

Nic Lochlainn, Caoimhe and Ríona Nic Congáil, eds. Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí: Aistí ar litríocht agus ar chultúr na n-óg. Dublin: LeabhairComhar, 2013.

Nic Lochlainn, Caoimhe. “Tarts and treacle, roast potatoes and buttermilk: Domestication in Irish-language translations of children’s literature.” In Maguire and Rodgers, Children’s literature on the move, 73-86.

Titley, Alan. “Children’s books in Irish.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 103-110.

LANDSCAPE

Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís. “Borderlands: Dead bog and living landscape.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 29-40.

NATION

Nic Congáil, Ríona. “Young Ireland and the nation: Nationalist children’s culture in the late nineteenth century.” Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies 46, nos. 3-4 (2011): 37-62.

Panaou, Petros . “‘What in the nation am I supposed to be?’ Child and nation in two picture books from Ireland.” Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children’s Literature, 13, no. 2 (2009): n.p.

NATIONAL IDENTITY

Coghlan, Valerie. “Questions of identity and otherness in Irish writing for young people.” Neohelicon 36, no. 1 (2009): 91-102.

Markey, Anne. “Coming of age and national character at home and abroad.” In Ní Bhroin and Kennon, What do we tell the children?, 113-130.

Ní Bhroin, Ciara. “Forging national identity: The adventure stories of Eilís Dillon.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 112-119.

NATIONALISM

Cahill, Susan. “Cleaning up the mess. The child and nation in historical fiction set between 1890 and 1922.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 41-54.

Flanagan, Michael. “‘Tales Told in the Turflight’: The Christian Brothers, Our Boys and the representation of Gaelic authenticity in the popular culture of the Irish Free State.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 57-66.

---. “‘There is an isle in the Western Ocean’: The Christian Brothers, Our Boys and Catholic/nationalist ideology.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure Islands, 43-52.

Hay, Marnie. “This treasured island: Irish nationalist propaganda aimed at children and youth, 1910-16.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure Islands, 33-42.

---. “The propaganda of Na Fianna Éireann, 1909-26.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 47-56.

---. “What did advanced Nationalists tell Irish children in the early twentieth century?” In Ní Bhroin and Kennon, What do we tell the children?, 148-162.

Nic Congáil, Ríona. “‘Fiction, amusement, instruction’: The Irish Fireside Club and the educational ideology of the Gaelic League.” Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies 44, nos. 1-2 (2009): 91-117.

---. “Young Ireland and the Nation: Nationalist children’s culture in the late nineteenth century.” Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies 46, nos. 3-4 (2011): 37-62.

O’Sullivan, Emer. “Insularity and internationalism: Between local production and the global marketplace.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 183-196.

NORTHERN IRELAND CONFLICT

Keenan, Celia, and Kate Agnew. “The troubled fiction of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 111-119.

OUR BOYS

---. “‘Tales told in the turflight’: The Christian Brothers, Our Boys and the representation of Gaelic authenticity in the popular culture of the Irish Free State.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 57-66.

---. “‘There is an isle in the Western Ocean’: The Christian Brothers, Our Boys and Catholic/nationalist ideology.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure Islands, 43-52.

Keogh, Dáire. “Our Boys, de Valera’s Ireland and the European crisis, 1932-9.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided Worlds, 126-138.

PICTURE BOOKS

Beckett, Sandra L. “Picturebooks that transcend boundaries.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 169-182.

Coghlan, Valerie. “Does every picture tell an Irish story?” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 83-93.

POETRY

Carroll, Áine. “Poetry in Irish primary school English-language readers, 1922-50.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 186-195.

Rosenstock, Gabriel. “Writing for children: A sense of oneness.” In Tebbutt and Fischer, Intercultural connections, 19-24.

Thompson, Mary Shine. “Meanings and means: Children’s poetry now.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 157-168.

PUBLISHING

Adams, Róisín. “Marion King agus An Gúm: Forbairt litríocht Ghaeilge na nóg I mblianta luatha an Ghúim.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 95-120.

Dunne, Claire Marie. “Inis: Léargas ar luach litríocht na Gaeilge don óige.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 149-172.

Flynn, Mary. “The Talbot Press and its religious publications for children.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 103-111.

Herron, Anne Marie. “Kate Thompson, James Stephens and the Irish literary landscape.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 81-91.

Keenan, Celia. “Divisions in the world of Irish publishing for children: Re-colonization or globalization?” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 196-208.

Mac Dhonnagáin, Tadhg. “An pocaide gabhair i lár an aonaigh: Foilsitheoireacht Ghaeilge don óige mar ghníomh idé-eolach agus mar ghníomh fiontraíochta.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 121-148.

Ó Murchú, Seosamh. “Idir Laethanta Gréine agus Na Mairbh a d’fhill: Súil sceabhach ar an bhfoilsitheoireacht do dhaoine óga i mblianta tosaigh an Ghúim.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 23-44.

O’Sullivan, Emer. “Insularity and internationalism: Between local production and the global marketplace.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 183-196.

Parkinson, Siobhán. “English that for me! Publishing children’s books in translation.” In Maguire and Rodgers, Children’s literature on the move, 151-160.

REGIONAL LITERATURE

Dunbar, Robert. “‘It’s the way we tell ‘em’: Voices from Ulster children’s fiction.” In Thompson and Coghlan, Divided worlds, 61-75.

Ó Baoighill, Pádraig. “Litríocht na nóg I nGaeltacht Thír Chonaill: Mo scéal féin.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 63-85.

RELIGION

Coghlan, Valerie. “‘What foot does he dig with?’ Inscriptions of religious and cultural identity.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 55-69.

Whelton, Marie. “Dea-scéala nó scéal deas? Cás-staidéar ar an dílseacht do na ‘bunscéalta’ i leagan Gaeilge den Bhíobla do pháistí.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 35-53.

SCHOOL STORIES

Kiberd, Declan. “School stories.” In Keenan and Thompson, Studies in children’s literature, 54-69.

Ní Mhulláin, Róisín. “An t-úrscéal scoile (1952-1960): Sraith Chluain Éanna le Cathal Ó Sándair.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 113-133.

SOCIAL REALISM

Coghlan, Valerie. “‘What foot does he dig with?’ Inscriptions of religious and cultural identity.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 55-69.

Redford, Carole. “Difference and conformity: What do we tell the children?” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 120-127.

TÁIN BÓ CUAILGNE

Ní Bhroin, Ciara. “Recovering a heroic past: The Táin retold.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 67-80.

TRANSLATION

Ní Chuilleanáin, Órla. Tíortha na h-óige: Litríocht Ghaeilge na n-óg agus ceisteanna an aistriúchain. Dublin: LeabhairComhar, 2014.

---. “Tosaíochtaí an aistriúcháin ar litríocht na nóg go Gaeilge: An staid reatha.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 127-149.

Ní Ghearbhuigh, Ailbhe. “Aistriúcháin Thorna do pháistí ón bhFraincís.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 75-89.

Nic Lochlainn, Caoimhe. “Asal Fhear na Mónadh: Aistriúchán Mhaighréad Nic Mhaicín ar shaothar Patricia Lynch.” In Nic Lochlainn and Nic Congáil, Laethanta gréine & oícheanta sí, 69-94.

---. “Larks and lapses of lingy: Aistriúcháin le Nioclás Tóibín ar leabhair chanónta do pháistí.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 91-111.

O’Sullivan, Emer. “Irish children’s books in translation.” In Coghlan and Keenan, The Big Guide 2, 128-135.

---. “A sense of place? The Irishness of Irish children’s literature in translation.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 137-153.

Parkinson, Siobhán. “English that for me! Publishing children’s books in translation.” In Maguire and Rodgers, Children’s literature on the move, 151-160

Titley, Alan. “An leanbh ionainn go léir: Na haistriúcháin Ghaeilge ar litríocht do dhaoine óga.” In Nic Congáil, Codladh céad bliain, 87-125.

U.S.A.

Clements, Aedín. “Pádraic Colum, the Horn Book, and the Irish in American children’s literature in the early twentieth century.” In Thompson and Keenan, Young Irelands, 154-163.

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Coghlan, Valerie. “‘What foot does he dig with?’ Inscriptions of religious and cultural identity.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 55-69.

Dunbar, Robert. “‘This island’s mine…which thou tak’st from me’: Textual ownership in some recent young adult fiction.” In Thompson and Keenan, Treasure islands, 91-97.

Dupuy, Coralline. “A French perspective on the Irishness of Morgan Llywelyn’s Cold Places.” In Thompson, Young Irelands, 128-136.

Mac Risteaird, Seán and Ronan Doherty. “Hurlamoboc na déaglitríochta: Féiniúlachtaí gnéis sa seomra ranga.” In Adams, Dunne, and Nic Lochlainn, Thar an tairseach, 181-200.

Markey, Anne. “Hurlamaboc and the coming of age of Irish children’s literature.” In Eilis Ni Dhuibhne: Critical Perspectives, edited by Rebecca Pelan, 151-170. Galway: Arlen House, 2009.

Whyte, Pádraic. “Young adult fiction and youth culture.” In Coghlan and O’Sullivan, Irish children’s literature, 71-83.

University of Notre Dame

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A Digital Journal of Irish Studies

Critical Writing on Irish Children’s Literature since 2000

Published: August 25, 2016

Author: Aedín Clements (University of Notre Dame) and Anne Markey (The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature)