HY 388: The Family in Modern Ireland
Readings in the history of childhood and the family
Dr. Moira Maguire
Anderson, Michael. Approaches to the history of the Western family 1500-1914. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Arensberg, C.M. and S.T. Kimball. Family and Community in Ireland. Cambridge, MA, 1968.
Ariès, Philip. Centuries of childhood. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Burton, Anthony, “Looking forward from Ariès? Pictorial and material evidence for the history of childhood and family life,” Continuity and Change vol. 4, no. 2 (August 1989): 203.
Cunningham, Hugh. Children and childhood in Western society since 1500. London: Longman, 1995.
Goldthorpe, J.E. Family life in Western societies: a historical sociology of family relationships in Britain and North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Hendrick, Harry. Children, childhood and English society, 1880-1990. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Hopkins, Eric. Childhood transformed: working-class children in nineteenth century England. Manchester University Press, 1994.
Jordan, Thomas E. Victorian childhood: themes and variations. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.
Pierce, D.K. Victorian and Edwardian children from old photographs. London: Batsford, 1980.
Pollock, Linda. Forgotten children: parent-child relations from 1500-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Walvin, James. A child’s world: a social history of English childhood 1800-1914. Penguin, 1982.
Bock, Gisela and Pat Thane. Maternity and Gender Politics: Women and the Rise of the Welfare State 1880-1950s. London: Routledge, 1991.
Condon, Janette, “The patriotic children’s treat: Irish nationalism and children in culture at the twilight of Empire,” Irish Studies Review vol. 8, no. 2 (2000): 167-178.
Cousins, Mel, “The introduction of children’s allowances in Ireland 1939-1944,” Irish Economic and Social History vol. 26 (1999): 35-53.
Fletcher, Anthony and Stephen Hussey. Childhood in question: children, parents and the state. New York: Manchester University Press, 1999.
Koven, Seth and Sonya Michel, eds. Mothers of a New World. Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States. New York and London: Routledge, 1993.
Pedersen, Susan. Family, dependence, and the origins of the welfare state: Britain and France 1914-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Scarre, G. Children, parents, and the state. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Weistman, John. “School meals and milk in England and Wales 1906-1945,” Medical History, vol. 41, no. 1 (1997): 6-29.
Clear, Catriona. Women of the house. Women’s household work in Ireland 1922-1961. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000.
Ross, Ellen. Love and toil: motherhood in outcast London 1870-1918. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Ross, Ellen. “Survival networks: women’s neighbourhood sharing in London before World War I,” History Workshop Journal, 15 (Spring 1983): 4-27.
Yeo, Eileen Janes, “The creation of ‘motherhood’ and women’s responses in Britain and France, 1750-1914,” Women’s History Review, vol. 8, no. 2 (1999): 201-218.
Abrams, Lynn, “There was nobody like my daddy: fathers, the family, and the marginalisation of men in modern Scotland,” Scottish Historical Review, vol. 78, no. 2 (1999): 219-242.
Gillis, John. “Marginalization of fatherhood in Western countries,” Childhood, vol. 7, no. 2 (2000): 225-238.
LaRossa, Ralph. The modernization of fatherhood: a social and political history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Burke, Helen. The People and the poor law in 19th century Ireland. Dublin: Women’s Education Bureau, 1987.
Clear, Catriona. Growing up poor: the homeless young in nineteenth-century Ireland. Galway: Galway Labour History Society, 1993.
Cunningham, Hugh. The children of the poor: representations of childhood. London: Blackwell, 1991.
Davin, Anna, “Loaves and fishes: food in poor households in late nineteenth century London,” History Workshop Journal, vol. 41 (1996): 167-192.
Davin, Anna. Growing up poor: home, school and street in London, 1870-1914. Concord, MA: Rivers Oram, 1996.
Heywood, Colin. Childhood in nineteenth-century France: work, health, and education among the classes populaires. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Humphries, S. Hooligans or rebels? An oral history of working-class childhood. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981.
Johnston, M. Dublin childhoods. Galway: Galway Labour History Society, 1993.
McDonald, Helen, “Boarding out and the Scottish Poor Law, 1845-1914,” Scottish Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 2 (1996): 197-220.
Milne, Keith. The Irish charter schools 1730-1830. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997.
O’Connor, John. The workhouses of Ireland. The fate of Ireland’s poor. Dublin: Anvil Books, 1995.
Robins, Joseph. The lost children: a study of charity children in Ireland 1700-1900. Dublin: Institute for Public Affairs, 1980.
Stadum, Beverly. Poor women and their families. Hard working charity cases 1900-1930. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Bean, Philip. Lost children of the empire. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
Carp, E. Wayne. Family matters: secrecy and disclosure in the history of adoption. Boston: Harvard University Press.
Gager, Kristin Elizabeth. Blood ties and fictive ties: adoption and family life in early modern France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Gallman, Matthew. Receiving Erin’s children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish famine migration, 1845-1855. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Gish, Clay. “Rescuing the ‘waifs and strays’ of the city: The Western emigration program of the Children’s Aid Society,” Journal of Social History, vol. 33, no. 1 (Fall 1999): 121-141.
Gordon, Linda. The great Arizona orphan abduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Malcolm, Elizabeth, “’The house of strident shadows’: the asylum, the family and emigration in post-famine rural Ireland,” in Medicine, disease and the state in Ireland 1650-1940, ed. Elizabeth Malcolm and Greta Jones. Cork: Cork University Press, 1999.
Milotte, Mike. Banished babies: the secret history of Ireland’s baby export business. Dublin: New Island Books, 1997.
Pugh, Gill. Unlocking the past: the impact of access to Barnardos childcare records. Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999.
Wagner, Gillian. Children of the empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
Blain, Angeline Kearns, Stealing sunlight: growing up in Irishtown. Dublin: A.& A. Farmar, 2000.
Cowen, P. Dungeons deep. Dublin: Marion Printing, 1960.
Doyle, Paddy. The god squad. Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1988.
Drennan, Mary Phil. You may talk now. Cork: On Stream Publications, 1994.
Fahy, Bernadette. Freedom of angels. Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage. Dublin: The O’Brien Press, 1999.
Flynn, Mannix. Nothing to say. Dublin: Ward River Press, 1983.
Galvin, P. Song for a raggy boy: a Cork childhood. Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1991.
MacGill, Patrick. Children of the dead end. Dingle, Co. Kerry: Brandon, 1983.
Matley, Mary. Always in the convent shadow. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1991.
McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir of Childhood. London: HarperCollins, 1996.
McGrath, Paul with Cathal Dervan. Ooh Aah Paul McGrath: the Black Pearl of Inchicore. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Co., 1994.
Nelson, G.K. Seen and not heard: memories of childhood in the early twentieth century. Dover, NH: Alan Sutton, 1993.
Noble, Christine. Bridge across my sorrows: the Christine Noble story. London: John Murray, 1994.
O’Connor, Frank. An Only Child. London: MacMillan, 1961.
Sheridan, Peter. 44: A Dublin Memoir. London: MacMillan, 1999.
Burke-Brogan, Patricia. Eclipsed. Galway: Salmon Publishing, 1994.
Fink, Janet, “Natural mothers, putative fathers, and innocent children,” Journal of Family History vol. 25, no. 2 (2000): 178-195.
Fuchs, Rachel. Poor and pregnant in Paris: strategies for survival in the nineteenth century. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
Gordon, Linda. Pitied but not entitled: single mothers and the history of welfare 1890-1935. Maxwell MacMillan, 1994.
Goulding, June. The Light in the Window. Dublin: Poolbeg, 1998.
Kirke, Deirdre. “Unmarried Mothers: A Comparative Study,” Economic and Social Review vol. 10, no. 2 (January 1979): 157-167.
Richard, Maura. Single Issue. Dublin: Poolbeg Press, 1998.
Viney, Michael. No Birthright: A Study of the Irish Unmarried Mother and Her Child. Dublin: Irish Times Press, 1964.
Behlmer, George, “Deadly motherhood: infanticide and medical opinion in mid-Victorian England,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 34 no. 4 (October 1979): 403.
Blaikie, Andrew. “Infant survival chances, unmarried motherhood and domestic arrangements in rural Scotland, 1845-1945,” Local Population Studies, vol. 60 (1998): 34-46.
Donovan, James M., “Infanticide and the Juries in France, 1825-1913,” Journal of Family History vol. 16 no. 2 (1991): 157-176).
Ferguson, Harry, “Surviving Irish childhood: child protection and the death of children in child abuse cases in Ireland since 1884,” in Harry Ferguson, Robbie Gilligan and Ruth Torode, eds. Surviving childhood adversity: issues for policy and practice. Dublin: TCD Social Studies Press, 1993.
Higginbotham, Ann., “Sin of the Age: Infanticide and Illegitimacy in Victorian London,” in Victorian Scandals: Representations of Gender and Class, ed. Kristine Ottesen Garrigan. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1992: 257-288.
Jackson, Mark. New-born child murder: women, illegitimacy and the courts in 18th century England. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
O’Connor, Anne. Child Murderess and Dead Child Traditions: A Comparative Study. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.
Preston, Samuel and Michael Haines. Fatal years: child mortality in late nineteenth-century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Richter, Jeffrey S., “Infanticide, Child Abandonment, and Abortion in Imperial Germany,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 28, no. 4 (Summer 1998): 511-551.
Rose, Lionel. The Massacre of the Innocents: Infanticide in Britain 1800-1939. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
Sauer, R. “Infanticide and abortion in nineteenth-century Britain,” Population Studies, vol. 32 (1978): 81-93.
Wheeler, Kenneth. “Infanticide in nineteenth-century Ohio,” Journal of Social History, vol. 31, no. 2 (1997): 407-418.
Wrightson, Keith. “Infanticide in European history,” Criminal Justice History (1982): 1-20.
Arnold, Mavis and Heather Laskey. Children of the Poor Clares - the story of an Irish orphanage. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1985.
Barnes, Jane. Irish Industrial Schools, 1868-1908: Origins and Development. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1989.
Crompton, Frank. Workhouse children: infant and child paupers under the Worcestershire Poor Law, 1780-1871. Dover, NH: Sutton, 1997.
Dos Guimaraes Sa, Isabel. “Child abandonment in Portugal: legislation and institutional care,” Continuity and Change, vol. 9, no. 1 (1994): 69-89.
Finnane, Mark. “Asylums, families, and the state,” History Workshop Journal, 20 (Autumn 1985): 134-148.
Finnane, Mark. Insanity and the insane in post-famine Ireland. London, 1981.
Ignatieff, Michael. “Total institutions and working classes: a review essay,” History Workshop Journal, 15 (Spring 1983): 167-173.
Melling, Joseph, Richard Adair and Bill Forsythe. “’A proper lunatic for two years’: pauper lunatic children in Victorian and Edwardian England. Child admissions to the Devon County Asylum 1845-1914”, Journal of Social History, vol. 31, no. 2 (1997): 371-406.
Raftery, Mary and Eoin O’Sullivan. Suffer the little children: the inside story of Ireland’s industrial schools. Dublin: New Island, 1999.
Stack, John, “Reformatory and industrial schools and the decline of child imprisonment in mid-Victorian Britain,” History of Education, vol. 23, no. 1 (1994): 59-73.
Stack, John. “The Catholics, the Irish delinquent and the origins of the reformatory schools in nineteenth-century England and Scotland,” Recusant History, vol. 23, no. 3 (1997): 372-388.
Wright, David, “Family strategies: the institutional confinement of ‘idiot’ children in Victorian England,” Journal of Family History, vol. 23, no. 2 (1998): 190-208.
Ashby, LeRoy. Endangered children: dependency, neglect and abuse in American history. Twayne, 1997.
Coldrey, Barry, “The sexual abuse of children: the historical perspective,” Studies vol. 85 (1996): 370-380.
Conley, C.A. “No pedestals: women and violence in late nineteenth-century Ireland,” Journal of Social History, vol. 28 no. 4 (1995): 801-818.
Cunningham, Hugh, “The decline of child labour: labour markets and family economies in Europe and North America since 1830,” Economic History Review, vol. 53, no. 3 (2000): 409-428.
Gordon, Linda. Heroes of their own lives: the politics and history of family violence: Boston 1880-1960. New York: Penguin, 1989.
Hammerton, James. Cruelty and companionship: conflict in nineteenth-century married life. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Pleck, Elizabeth. Domestic tyranny: the making of social policy against family violence from colonial times to the present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Rose, Lionel. The erosion of childhood: child oppression in Britain 1860-1918. London: Routledge, 1991.
Sangster, Joan, “Masking and unmasking the sexual abuse of children: perceptions of violence against children in ‘the Badlands’ of Ontario, 1916-1930,” Journal of Family History, vol. 25, no. 4 (October 2000): 500-526.
Steiner-Scott, Elizabeth. “To bounce a boot off her now and then…: domestic violence in post-famine Ireland,” in Women and Irish history: essays in honour of Margaret MacCurtain, ed. Maryann Valulius and Mary O’Dowd. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1997.
Feheney, J.M. “Delinquency among Irish-Catholic children in Victorian London,” Irish Historical Studies, vol. 23, no. 92 (1983): 319-329.
Nilan, Cat. “Hapless innocence and precocious perversity in the courtroom melodrama: representations of the child criminal in a Paris legal journal, 1830-48,” Journal of Family History, vol. 22, no. 3 (July 1997): 251-285.
Platt, A. The child-savers - the invention of delinquency. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Wegs, Robert. “Youth delinquency and ‘crime’: the perception and the reality,” Journal of Social History, vol. 23, no. 3 (1999): 603-622.
Mitchell, Margaret, “The effects of unemployment on the social condition of women and children in the 1930s”, History Workshop Journal vol. 19 (Spring 1985): 105.
Tuttle, William Jr. ‘Daddy’s gone to war’: the Second World War in the lives of America’s children. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Weiner, Emmy. Through the eyes of innocents: children witness WWII. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999.
Cross, Gary. Kids’ stuff: toys and the changing world of American childhood. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Drotner, Kirsten. English children and their magazines, 1751-1945. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Jacobson, Lisa. “Revitalizing the American home: children’s leisure and the revaluation of play, 1920-1940,” Journal of Social History, vol. 30, no. 3 (1997): 581-596.
Prater, Tammy, “(Uni)forming youth: Girl Guides and Boy Scouts in Britain, 1908-1939,” History Workshop Journal, 45 (Spring 1998): 103-134.
Snell, K.D.M. “The Sunday-school Movement in England and Wales. Child Labour, Denominational Control and Working-class Culture,” Past and Present, vol. 164 (1999): 122-168.
Tinkler, Penny. Constructing girlhood: popular magazines for girls growing up in England 1920-1950. Pennsylvania: Taylor and Francis, 1995.
Tinkler, Penny. “Sexuality and citizenship: the State and girls’ leisure provision in England, 1939-1945,” Women’s History Review, vol. 4, no. 2 (1995): 193-217.
Vallone, Lynne. Disciplines of virtue: girls’ culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Behlmer, George. Friends of the family: the English home and its guardians, 1850-1940. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Birdwell-Pheasant, Donna. “Irish households in the early twentieth century: culture, class, and historical contingency,” Journal of Family History, vol. 18, no. 1 (1993): 19-38.
Clement, Priscilla Ferguson. Growing pains: children in the Industrial Age, 1850-1890. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.
Curtin, C. and T. Wilson. Ireland from below: social change and local communities. Galway: UCG Press, 1988.
Fitzpatrick, David. “Irish farming families before the First World War,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 25 (1983): 339-374.
Fuchs, Rachel. Abandoned children, foundlings, and child welfare in nineteenth-century France. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.
Guinnane, Timothy. “Coming of age in rural Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century,” Continuity and Change, vol. 5, no. 3 (1990): 443-472.
Jordan, Thomas E. Ireland’s children. Quality of life, stress, and child development in the famine era. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
Kennedy, Liam. “Bastardy and the Great Famine: Ireland 1845-1850,” Continuity and Change, vol. 14, no. 3 (1999): 429-452.
Kertzer, David. “Syphilis, foundlings, and wet nurses in nineteenth-century Italy,” Journal of Social History, vol. 23, no. 3 (1999): 589-602.