Irish Children’s Literature and Culture
Symposium
Saturday, 5th
December 2009
10.00am – 4.30pm
Irish Children's Literature and Culture Symposium Poster
This symposium is part of an IVRLA-funded project which focuses on Irish children’s literature, utilising collections in University College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland, namely the John Manning Collection of Children’s Books (UCD Special Collections) and the Máirín Cregan Papers (National Library of Ireland).
The symposium will include papers on various aspects of Irish children’s literature by leading academics working in the area, a roundtable discussion, and a discussion by children’s writer, Oisín McGann, on a workshop that he will lead on the 3rd December with school children on writers’ lives and archives (in conjunction with the National Library of Ireland and Children’s Books Ireland).
Speakers :
Mary Shine Thompson, Valerie Coghlan, Celia Keenan, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Patricia Kennon, Ciara Ní Bhroin, Susan Cahill, and Oisín McGann.
Venue:
Room H204, second floor, UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland (building number 43, grid ref F9 on the UCD Campus Map)
If you would like to attend this free event, please RSVP to susan.cahill@ucd.ie.
Tea, coffee & lunch will be provided.
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 .