Recorded March 8, 2018.

In this talk Dr Cahill explores the figure of the unruly Irish girl in children’s fiction. She will particularly focus on the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, looking at the extraordinary volume of novels published in the period that feature wild Irish girls: girls who disrupt schools, who become artists, who open factories, and who even engage in revolutionary activity. These girls will be considered alongside more recent YA fiction, novels which highlight the ‘bold girl’ in all her complexity. The work of 19th century writers such as L.T. Meade, Rosa Mulholland and Katharine Tynan as well as contemporary writers such as Louise O'Neill and Moira Fowley-Doyle will be considered.

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