Aois na hÓige
Díolaim Próis
Aisling Ní Dhonnchadha and Máirín Nic Eoin
The volume spans a broad spectrum of themes, viewpoints and narrative approaches, revealing dimensions of childhood rarely acknowledged in official sources.
How does contemporary Irish-language literature portray the experience of childhood in Ireland? Do Irish-language texts offer a distinctive perspective on the experience of childhood?
This volume brings together a rich selection of prose from a variety of autobiographical and fictional sources, chosen to illuminate these two questions.
It features accounts of childhood from all the principal Gaeltacht regions, alongside fiction set in other rural districts, in towns and in Dublin. Family and community life, the education and economic systems, occasions of happiness and of grief are presented through the eyes of the child or through an adult’s memories of childhood.
Aisling Ní Dhonnchadha is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Irish at Maynooth University. Máirín Nic Eoin is Professor Emerita of Irish at Dublin City University.
Both are literary scholars who have published original works of criticism on various aspects of contemporary Irish-language literature.
