Clandeboye Reading Party: Childhood and Children's Culture

How do classic and contemporary writers represent children’s experiences? What did children play with in ancient Greece? How have attitudes to children been shaped by political change and humanitarian crisis? Staff from TCD and Queen’s, with expertise which spans many centuries and different global contexts, will also discuss aspects of their work on children’s literature, the history of childhood, and youth cultures.

2pm 

Lightning Talks

Early career researchers will be making 5-minute 'lightning' presentations on the subject of Childhood and Children’s Culture based on their own research.

3.30pm

Panel Discussion: The Literature, History and Culture of Children and Childhood

This event will feature a panel by university staff on this year’s Reading Party Theme.

5pm

Childhood Poetry Reading with Poet Gail McConnell

Dr. Gail McConnell is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen’s University Belfast. Her debut collection, The Sun is Open, won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Award and The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. She has also published two poetry pamphlets, Fathermother and Fourteen, and has made arts features on her poetry for BBC Radio 4.

5.30pm

Lightning Talks

Early career researchers will be making 5-minute presentations on the subject of Childhood and Children’s Culture based on their own research.

Image Credit: Margaret Gregory, illustration for Lady Gregory’s The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children (1916), reproduced by Digital Collections from the Pollard Collection in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, OLS POL 7557. By permission of The Board of Trinity College Dublin.