Siobhán Parkinson recently travelled to Letterkenny to launch a new 5 week campaign to promote literacy. The Read LK programme encourages everyone in the community to read one book, which on this occasion is Siobhán’s children’s novel, Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe).
There’s more about the visit here: http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/news/local/new_letterkenny_initiative_promotes_reading_and_community_1_3554950
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature (ISSCL)
Sat 25th – Sun 26th February 2012
School of Nursing,
Dublin City University
Biennial Conference of the Society
Is féidir linn! [Yes we can!] : Politics and Ideology in
Children’s Literature
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Matthew Grenby, Saturday 25th February at 5.30pm
Children’s Laureate Address:
Dr Siobhán Parkinson, Sunday 26th February at 11.45am
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature (ISSCL)
celebrates its 10th anniversary on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th
February in Dublin City University with a conference entitled “Is
féidir linn! [Yes we can!]: Politics and Ideology in Children’s
Literature.” The keynote speaker is Dr Matthew Grenby of Newcastle
University (“Very Naughty Doctrines”: the Politics of Early Children’s
Literature) and Dr Siobhán Parkinson will give the Children’s Laureate
address (The Creative and the Critical). With themes varying from
Nationalism to Cultural Memory, Ecocriticism to Geocriticism,
Utopias/Dystopias to Class and Gender Ideologies, the wide-ranging
papers on offer reveal intriguing insights into children’s literature
over the last three hundred years. The conference costs range from
€40-€60 and full details are available at www.isscl.com or email
aine.mcgillicuddy@dcu.ie.
Children’s Literature as an academic discipline has grown immeasurably
in the last decade with a popular MA course in St. Patrick’s College
Drumcondra and the recently established MPhil in Trinity College
Dublin. The ISSCL’s latest publication is Young Irelands: Studies in
Children’s Literature edited by Mary Shine Thompson and published by
Four Courts Press in November 2011.
The ISSCL gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the DCU Office for the Vice President of Research (OVPR) and the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) Research Committee.