Book of Donmon Teith

While much has been written about Irish culture’s apparent obsession with the past and with representing childhood, few critics have explored in detail the po

What constitutes a ‘national literature’ is rarely straightforward, and it is especially complex when discussing writing for young people in an Irish contex

Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together?

Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, un

Despite the immense interest sparked by recent child abuse and orphan vaccination trials, the history of childhood illness in Ireland has remained largely hidde