Constructions of the Irish Child in the Independence Period, 1910-1940 1st ed. Edition Ciara Boylan

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 331992821X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319928210
• Author(s): Ciara Boylan, Ciara Gallagher

This volume explores how Irish children were ‘constructed’ by various actors including the state, youth organisations, authors and publishers in the period before and after Ireland gained independence in 1922. It examines the broad variety of ways in which the Irish child was constructed through social and cultural activities like education, sport, youth organizations, and cultural production such as literature, toys, and clothes, covering themes ranging from gender, religion and social class, to the broader politics of identity, citizenship, and nation-building. A variety of ideals and ideologies, some of them conflicting, competed to inform how children were constructed by the adults who looked on them as embodying the future of the nation. Contributors ask fundamental questions about how children were constructed as part of the idealisation of the state before its formation, and the consolidation of the state after its foundation.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Education and Learning
2. Concepts of Children and Childhood from an Educational Perspective 1900–1940: Context, Curriculum and Experiences
3. The Church of Ireland’s Response to Changes in the National School Curriculum in Post-independence Ireland 1922–1940
4. A Treasure-House for the Young: Free Public Libraries and the Irish Child
Part II. Literature and Language
5. Drama for Children in the Irish Free State: Sinéad De Valera’s Plays for Schoolchildren
6. Jimín Mháire Thaidhg and Constructions of Childhood in Irish-Language Children’s Literature in the Independence Period, 1910–1940
7. ‘For Children or Nuns’: Language and Ideology in Irish-Language Translations and Retellings for Children, 1922–1940
8. This Is No Country for Young Girls? Irish Girlhood in the Revolutionary Period
9. ‘Stories of Ancient Days’: Mythological Constructs of Childhood in Independence Ireland
Part III. Material Culture and Organised Activity
10. Toys, Material Culture and Play Space in Ireland: The Iveagh Trust Play Centre
11. ‘Set Up Before the People’: Images and Ideals of Boys’ Clothing in Ireland, c.1910–1940
12. The Boy Scouts in Ireland: Urbanisation, Health, Education, and Adolescence, 1908–1914
13. ‘A Youth Tainted with the Deadly Poison of Anglicism’? Sport a

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