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Siobhán Morrissey welcoming keynote speaker Prof Melanie Ramdarshan Bold ISSCL conference

A joy to discuss Irish identity as ‘both/and’ not ‘either/or’ at the ISSCL conference! 👏Anna McQuinn Jennifer Horan Fahmeda Naheed katie 🦎 Méabh Ní Choileáin / Collins 🦋 & all panelists 👏keynotes speakers @corcoran10_nora & Prof Melanie Ramdarshan Bold 👏Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll & ISSCL committee

Looking forward to speaking at the British Irish Chamber of Commerce #HERConf2023 today! I'll be highlighting our Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded grant - with Dr Patricia Kennon & Siobhán Morrissey - and the establishment of the Lionra network (Scottish Book Trust Children's Books Ireland Fighting Words superpoweragency Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann)

📢CFP for ISSCL's special issue on Race, Ethnicity and Representation in Irish children's and YA literature and culture in 'Irish Studies Review' journal! To be published in May 2025. Send your 300 word abstracts to [email protected] by Friday 14th July

Such a fantastic week presenting at IRSCL Congress 2023 on “The Ethics of Consumption” at the University of California, Santa Barbara! Already excited for the next congress in Salamanca in 2025 📚

Guaranteed Irish: New campaign looks to promote homegrown children’s writers and books for kids in Ireland via Irish Times Books irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Fantastic initiative 👏

Delighted that my article ‘The Failure of a Colour-Blind Approach to Mitigate the Racism of Enid Blyton’s Twentieth-Century Children’s Fiction’ is now published in ‘Children’s Literature in Education’ - link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our Postgraduate Student Coffee Mornings are back! ☕️ This is a fantastic way to meet other postgrads researching children's literature and children's culture. Our first online meeting is on Friday 23rd February at 11am. Register here: eventbrite.ie/e/isscl-postgr…

We're very much looking forward to kicking off our seminar series with Janneke van de Stadt, who is applying Indigenous theories of human-animal interdependence to Holocaust studies through children's literature... what an intriguing synthesis!

Can’t wait to chair the ISSCL panel on family in children’s & YA lit. & criticism. Sign up👇to join Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll Dr Ann Alston & editors, Jade Dillon-Craig & Eleanor Spencer-Regan, for a lively discussion & celebration of their volume 23/04 3pm IST eventbrite.com/e/isscl-conver…

An exciting lineup of Conversations on the topics of Family, Ecologies, and Controversy in children's and YA literature! ISSCL members can now book their place for the second Conversation on the 30th April! eventbrite.com/e/isscl-conver…

ISSCL members can now register for the 3rd Conversation on Controversies in Children's and YA Literature! Register here: eventbrite.com/e/isscl-conver… Need to become a member first? Join here! issclblog.wordpress.com/join-the-isscl/

Delighted to have a chapter on Enid Blyton’s magazine in this new collection, ‘The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals’! Congratulations to the editors Kristine Moruzi, Beth Rodgers and Michelle J. Smith

“The power of children’s literature is often underestimated, and at the same time, it is often seen as dangerous and one that needs to be controlled” Really looking forward to chairing this panel on ‘Controversies’ and talking about perceived ‘dangerous’ topics in youth lit!

My TedXGalway talk - "Blyton, Dahl, and Ireland: Our Choices of Children's Books" - is now on YouTube! (I left out an important bit of info at the start - I asked the Children's Studies students to include at least one Irish author in their lists) youtu.be/0D_yYxJHSic

Oh, Siobhán! I love this TEDX talk. I was cheering, along with the audience, when you asked 'Why are we still reading 20th century British children's books?' Yes! Why? When there are SO many brilliant Irish children's books out there. #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

There's still time to submit your application for the ISSCL Master's Thesis Award! 🏆 The submission deadline is 31st January. Get in touch with any questions about your submission: [email protected]

Love reading and discussing children's books (I mean who doesn't...) and want to attend a creative writing workshop? Join us for a day of celebrating, chatting about, and writing children's books on 22nd March in DCU! Register below on Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/isscl-sympos…

To celebrate this year's publication of the 'Irish Studies Review' special issue on "Race, Ethnicity, and Representation in Irish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture", we are hosting an online launch on Friday 6th June! Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-studie…