In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction

Maria Luddy, James M. Smith
pp. 5-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0038
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Jonathan Swift's Childhoods

Mary Shine Thompson
pp. 10-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0039
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Cribbed, Contained, and Confined?: The Care of Children under the Irish Poor Law, 1850–1920

Virginia Crossman
pp. 37-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0036
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The Early Years of the NSPCC in Ireland

Maria Luddy
pp. 62-90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0034
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"Fiction, Amusement, Instruction": The Irish Fireside Club and the Educational Ideology of the Gaelic League

Ríona Nic Congáil
pp. 91-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0032
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"The Children of the Nation?": Representations of Poor Children in Mainstream Nationalist Journalism, 1882 and 1913

Margot Gayle Backus
pp. 118-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0030
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The Irish Schoolboy Novel

Ciaran O'Neill
pp. 147-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0028
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"In My Mind I Build a House": The Quest for Family in the Children's Fiction of Patricia Lynch

Leeann Lane
pp. 169-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0040
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"The Primary and Natural Educator"?: The Role of Parents in the Education of Their Children in Independent Ireland

Mary E. Daly
pp. 194-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0037
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"In My Father's House": Renegotiations of Boyhood in Life Writing by John McGahern, Ciaran O'Driscoll, Dermot Healy, and Ciaran Carson

Barry Sloan
pp. 218-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0035
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"No Right to Be a Child": Irish Girlhood and Queer Time in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing

Kelly J.S. McGovern
pp. 242-264
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0033
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The "Public Child" and the Reluctant State?

Robbie Gilligan
pp. 265-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0031
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Cover Note

Cover Note

Dathalinn O'Dea
pp. 291-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0029
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Contributors

Contributors

pp. 293-296
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.0.0041
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