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Focusing on the mythological narratives that influence Irish children's literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer authors and readers the opportunity to engage with Ireland's culture and heritage. It explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries. A selection of children's books published between 1892, when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish independence and 2016, which marked the centenary of the Easter 1916 rebellion against English rule, are discussed with the aim of demonstrating the development of a pattern of retrieving, re-telling, remembering and re-imagining myths in Irish children's literature. In doing so, it examines the reciprocity that exists between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences in this body of work.
Contents
IntroductionChapter One: Retrieving
Standish O'Grady, Eleanor Hull, Augusta Gregory
Chapter Two: Re-Telling
Alice Dease, Ella Young, Violet Russell, Padraic Colum, James Stephens
Chapter Three: Remembering
Patricia Lynch, Una Kelly, Eilís Dillon, JS Andrews
Chapter Four: Re-Imagining
Pat O'Shea, Orla Melling, Jim O'Leary, Kate Thompson, Siobhan Dowd
Conclusion:
Darragh Martin, Peadar O'Guilin
Works Cited
Index
