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Childhood and the Irish: A Miscellany
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By: Salvador Ryan
Publisher: Wordwell
Published: October 2025
Pages: 420
Categories: History, Humanities, Non-Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781916742192

In eighty short essays, historians, folklorists, archaeologists, theologians, anthropologists, poets, novelists, artists, literature scholars, and educationalists cast light on the lived experience of children in Ireland over the past 1,500 years. Ranging from the scholarly to the deeply personal, with vignettes from nearly every county in Ireland, this anthology will delight anyone interested in the social, cultural, and religious history of childhood in Ireland from the earliest times to the present day.

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