'Treasure Islands'
St Patrick's College, Drumcondra (DCU)
February 2004
Papers Presented:
Anna Bogen
‘“The Island Come True”: Peter Pan, Wildcat Island , and the Lure of the Real'
Clive Barnes
‘New Kinds of Treasure: Changes in Island Adventure in the Mid Twentieth Century'
Robert Dunbar
‘“This island's mine...which thou tak'st from me...”'
Maureen A Farrell
‘Treasured Islands in Scottish Children's Literature'
Michael Flanagan
‘There is an Isle in the Western Ocean – The Christian Brothers, Our Boys and the Representation of Catholic/Nationalist Ideology in Irish Popular Culture'
Jerry Griswold
‘Map Reading , Spatial Understanding, and Stevenson's Treasure Island ‘
Marnie Hay
‘This Treasured Island : Irish Nationalist Propaganda Aimed at Children and Youth, 1910-16'
Kate Hebblethwaite
‘Creating Wildmen in One's Own Image: Maroons, Darwin and the Question of Humanity'
Celia Keenan
‘ Into the West and Whale Rider -- Two Island Films engaged with the Tension between Modernity and the Past'
Patricia Kennon
‘Rites of Passage and Encounters with the “Other” in Siobhan Parkinson's Children's Novel Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe)'
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
‘Daddies and Telephones - The Wild and the Tame in Children's Literature'
Breege O'Brien
‘The Island as Setting in Modern Children's Literature in Ireland '
Jane O'Hanlon
‘Enid Blyton's Contemporary Relevance'
Siobhan Parkinson
‘From Utopia to Weslandia, via Terabithia: A Cruise Inside Your Head'
Elizabeth Parsons
‘ Australia , Island 's Edge: The Sea in Gary Crew's Picture Books'
A J Piesse
‘Islands, Ireland , and the Changing State of Writing for Children'
Carmen Perez Diez
‘Bridging Gaps, Waters Abating: C S Lewis's The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader'
David Rudd
‘ Islands and I-lands in Enid Blyton'
Maire Ui Mhaicin
‘Gods, Heroes, Saints and Villains of the Celtic Otherworld in Modern Retellings of Old Irish Tales'
Nancy Watson
‘Eilis Dillon's Concepts of Nationalism'
