Papers Presented:
Josianne Bigham
‘Times were hard but life was good’
Francesca Califano
‘The work of Rodari through political, social and cultural divisions’
Noreen Doody
‘“Jade and powdered lacquer”: the tension between Yeats’s Preface and Wilde’s text of The Happy Prince and other Tales’
Carole Dunbar
‘The Portrayal of Class in Mrs Alexander’s Hymns for Children’
Robert Dunbar
‘It’s the Way We Tell ‘Em: Voices from Ulster Children’s Fiction’
Coralline Dupuy
‘“I’m not interested in faces”: Self-inflicted Isolation in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’
Colette Epple
‘Katharine Tynan’s transmission of Irish identity and culture through her children’s literature’
Michael Flanagan
‘And who will fight for Ireland? The Great War, propaganda and the representation of conflict in children’s popular literature’
Eimear Hegarty
‘Translations of a land-locked island: maternal identity and forced migration’
Patricia Kennon
‘The relationship between the private and the public spheres in Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical fiction’
Kathy Mabin
‘The themes of race relations and discrimination in South African youth literature since 1990’
Lindsay Myers
‘“The Ants go Marching in” – Ant-Fascism from Ciondolino to Antz’
Ciara Ni Bhrion
‘Division and Union in Maria Edgeworth’s Orlandino’
Jane O’Hanlon
‘Portrayals of conflict in Oisin McGann’s The Gods and Their Machines and Conor Kostick’s Epic’
Keith O’Sullivan
‘Kingdoms and Republics: The Influence of Romantic Political Ideologies on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials’
Julie Ann Stevens
‘Politics and Fox-Hunting in Somerville and Ross’s Works for Children’
Laura Vinas-Valle
‘Divisions in Roald Dahl’s world: The characterisation of heroes and villains’
Padraic Whyte
‘Territorial Traumas and Teenage Tantrums: Divided Worlds in the work of Mark O’Sullivan’
