Irish Children’s Literature and Culture Symposium

26 November 2009

Irish Children's Literature and Culture Symposium  Saturday, 5th December 2009 10.00am - 4.30pm

Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland (building number 43, grid ref F9 on the UCD Campus Map)

Speakers:

Oisin McGann - "Writing in Tongues: Translating Nineteenth Century Storytelling"

Dr Susan Cahill (University College Dublin) - "The Girl in the Archive: Irish women writers of children's fiction 1870-1940" 

Valerie Coghlan (Church of Ireland College of Education) - "The Liminality of the Bog in Irish Children's Literature"

Ciara Ní Bhroin (Mario Institute of Education) - "Mythologizing the Present- Modern Retellings of Irish Myths for Children"

Dr Mary Shine Thompson (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra) - "Children's Literature Studies in Ireland"

Roundtable Discussion

Participants: Celia Keenan (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra)

Dr Patricia Kennon (Froebel College of Education)

Dr Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (University College Dublin)

If you would like to attend this free event, please RSVP to susan.cahill@ucd.ie

Tea, coffee & lunch will be provided.

Website: http://www.ucd.ie/englishanddrama/news/childlitsymposiumschedule/

 

 

All images from John Manning Collection, UCD Special Collections

This event is funded through the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA), a component of the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, which is funded by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) through the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI). See www.ucd.ie/ivrla for further details.