‘From Instruction to Delight’:
Reading Traditions in Irish Primary Education

The Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, is hosting a Conference to celebrate the bicentenary of the founding of the Kildare Place Society, from 14-15 October 2011. Speakers include Roddy Doyle, Emer O’Sullivan, Peter Hunt, Harold Hislop and Susan Parkes. For further details and a booking form please contact cicedublin2011@gmail.com or see www.cice.ie.

Friday 14th October 2011

14.00 Conference Opening

14.30-15.15 The Publications of the Kildare Place Society Harold Hislop

15.15-16.00 Reading Books of the Hedge Schools: ‘Penny Merriments’ and ‘Penny Godliness’ Antonia MacManus

16.00-16.30 Break

16.30-17.00 ‘The Journey of Life’: the Girls’ Reading Book of the National Board Susan Parkes

17.00-17.30 Text Books and the Drive for Literacy, 1870 to 1922 John Coolahan

17.30-18.00 Values in Primary School Text Books, 1922 to 2000 James Bennett

18.00-18.30 Questions and Discussion

18.45-19.45 Supper

20.00-21.15 The Windows of Style: 200 years of Changing Language in Children’s Books Peter Hunt

21.15 Conference Reception sponsored by the INTO

Saturday 15th October 2011

9.30- 10.00 CICE Collections: KPS; Text Books; Puffin Books Geraldine O’Connor & Valerie Coghlan

10.00-11.00 Informing Images: How Pictures Tell the Story in the Pollard Collection (TCD) Amanda Piesse

11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-12.15 ‘Long time a child, and still a child, when years|Had painted manhood on my cheek’:
Endless Childhoods in Contemporary Irish Children’s Literature Keith O’Sullivan

12.30-14.00 Lunch and optional visits to the Plunket Museum

14.15-15.15 The Maurice O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture sponsored by the ESB
Reading the World: Early 19th-century Pictures of Foreign Nations Emer O’Sullivan

15.15-16.00 The Author’s Version Roddy Doyle

16.00 Closing remarks

16.30 Buses leave for Christ Church Cathedral Crypt for the Launch of Where the Stones Sing by Eithne
Massey (O’Brien Press) – a story set in 14th century Christ Church.

18.45 Buses return to CICE

19.30 Conference Dinner in CICE (Optional)