Presented in 2024 in memory of

Michael O’Brien and Sue Miller

DCU IoE, St Patrick’s Campus, Drumcondra

9-10 February 2024

 

Friday, 9 February

Seamus Heaney Theatre, Cregan Library

6.00pm

Opening remarks

Presentation of the

IBBY Ireland Award 2024

6.15pm

IBBY Ireland Annual Lecture

Hare Joins the Home Guard: Children’s Books and War

Andrew Pettegree FBA

Professor of Modern History at University of Saint Andrews

 

Andrew Pettegree, the author of The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in a Time of Conflict, addresses the theme of war in children’s books

Followed by a reception

 

Saturday, 10 February

Room SPC.F218

Symposium

on the theme of war in children’s books

                                                                        10.00am     Registration and coffee

                                                                        10.30am     Valerie Coghlan on Jella Lepman (founder of IBBY): War and Peace

                                                                        11.30am     Liz Page on the international work of IBBY: Making Peace with

                                                                                           Children’s Books

                                                                        12.30pm     Lunch break (Lunch not provided)

                                                                         1.30pm       Rebecca Long: Cúchulainn as a Child Warrior in Irish Children’s Literature

                                                                         2.30pm       Alan Titley, author of a new children’s translation of The Táin

                                                                         3.30pm       Closing remarks

Each one-hour slot includes time for audience Q&A

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