Looking for some summer reads? 😎📖 Our DCU MA in Children’s & Young Adult Literature students have you covered! @dculibrary.bsky.social share.google/q9ITgK9gWnQt...

Suggested Summer Reads: Recommendations by the students and faculty of the MA

The summer months are in full swing now, with the possibility of better weather on our beautiful green isle (“possibility” being an important word here). As the holidays and other leisu…

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'Fantasy is almost never written by dragons'. MA student Caoimhe Creed writes about Fighting Word’s work empowering young writers & the significance of children's literature written by children in the latest DCU MA in Children's & YA Literature blog. share.google/dpQFqzDkJhxr...

Young Voices in Children’s Literature

With the 2026 edition of the Irish Times supplement, Fighting Words, being published a few days ago, fellow student Caoimhe Creed gives us an insight into her involvement with it, as well as a part…

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“To give my shortest review on this programme: I wish it was longer” Curious about the MA in Children's and YA Literature @dublincityuni.bsky.social ? Read about Franka Roese's experience as a FT student on our MA blog: dublincityuniversitychildrensandyaliterature.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/m...

MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: A Retrospective (sort of)

As the busy side of the 25/26 academic year closes and students of the MA dig deep into putting their dissertations together, one of our students, Franka, gives us an insight into her year in DCU a…

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Wonderful launch for our new IBBY 2024 Hans Christian Andersen collection. Thanks to all who came to celebrate! The exhibition can be viewed at Cregan library until April 15th. @dculibrary.bsky.social View the library guide for the exhibition created by DCU's MA students: dcu.libguides.com/HCAA

Ahead of our launch of the IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Collection @dculibrary.bsky.social on International Children's Book Day tomorrow, read about what it is and how it started in my blog post share.google/KRpkkFOvrkkM...

April 2nd is International Children’s Book Day – what is it and how did it start?

April 2nd is International Children’s Book Day. Dr Jennifer Mooney writes about Jella Lepman’s dream of building peace through children’s literature immediately after the…

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Wonderful day celebrating our Children’s and YA Lit. MA graduates last week 🎓! Special congrats to Hazel Skinner for receiving the Dean’s List pin in recognition of her exceptional achievement. 👏 Apply for 26/27 here: share.google/F9eVtLcEu1skHL…

Congratulations @lucyestone.bsky.social on today’s cross faculty event, Reading Well, @dculibrary.bsky.social A richly rewarding day exploring how titles in the DCU Children's Books Ireland Collection represent illness and disability and their potential use in education and healthcare settings.

Lovely post this morning! Thoroughly enjoyed reviewing Eugene O’Brien’s timely study Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. share.google/ukxZgdRlx0Oi...

Join us on April 2nd @dculibrary.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of our IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Collection exhibition curated by DCU MA students. @ibbyuk.bsky.social Sign up via Eventbrite to register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...

What makes a good children’s book? Do good children’s books have to ‘do’ good? What is the best children’s book? What would you choose? Great discussion with Adjunct Prof. Peter Hunt! See what he chose & why! Apply now for 26/27 share.google/CKciWKHdN4ZS5Y…

In her final post in a three-part series on AI and children’s literature, graduate Kate O’Brien includes Adjunct Prof. Peter Hunt's thoughts about how AI analysis can go horribly wrong! Read the full three-part series, including this final instalment: share.google/cTJz3fVhnmYb...

Machines Cannot Actually Read!

This week we are delighted to welcome Kate O’Brien, a past student of the MA, who kindly shares with us her thoughts on reading for pleasure and the use of LLMs when writing for children. This is K…

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shorturl.at/JDdcn New blog alert! 📢 DCU's MA in Children's and YA Literature Adjunct Professor, Peter Hunt, ponders on the implications of the new and (presumably) prestigious Children’s Booker prize – how we might play with the idea of prizes, and what is ‘the best’.

And the Winner Is …

A new and (presumably) prestigious Children’s Book Award has just been announced. Ever up-to-date, your Adjunct Professor, Peter Hunt, has been pondering on the implications – how we might play wit…

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Thinking about an MA? Interested in children's and YA literature? Press GO! to start your MA journey: expertise and specialist insight into picturebooks, collections, YA fiction, and much more! Sign up for our DCU Postgraduate Open Day! share.google/ZV7z2jZbpRvc...

Wonderful visit to @nlireland.bsky.social for our DCU MA students! We saw the children’s book illustrations & processes of P.J. Lynch, Margaret Anne Suggs & Chris Judge. Laura Ryan facilitated a fascinating discussion about preserving process in children’s book creation.

New posts on DCU MA in Children’s and YA Lit Blog by our graduates 🎓: share.google/QKVEJEZM4pcp... ‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social & the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI

The DCU MA in Children’s and YA Lit Blog

Welcome to our MA in Children's and Young Adult Literature Blog - we hope you enjoy reading about our research and events, and all things children’s literature related here.

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‘The past few years have seen radical changes in culture, ways of thinking, world views, and the books produced for the young’ DCU Adjunct Prof. Peter Hunt asking our MA students, ‘do the basics of children’s lit. criticism stand up today?’ @dculibrary.bsky.social

How to write about Edwardian children’s books? Context? Style? Genre? Their adaptations? Were they/ are they for children? Does writing about them at all perpetuate a narrow, artificial canon? Adjunct Prof. Peter Hunt’s talk showed what a rich field Children’s Literature is!

Looking forward to welcoming new and continuing students to our gorgeous DCU All Hallows campus next week to begin semester one of the MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature! 📚 @dculibrary.bsky.social

Perfect reading for a heatwave! Thanks to our wonderful children’s lit MA editors for sharing Prof Peter Hunt’s latest while finalising dissertations. @friendsinthepages.bsky.social @dculibrary.bsky.social 🤞🏻this ‘Leaving Cert’ weather lasts past submission day! 😎 share.google/fnUavME70AON...

Midsummer Blogness

Your faithful Adjunct Professor, Peter Hunt, has been having a few summery thoughts in various green shades, just to tide you over through the dreadful dry weeks when DCU won’t lecture to you. Most…

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This will be a fantastic event @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Sarah Webb@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social · last yr.

The Discover Irish Children’s Books Symposium will be held on Sat 21st June at Cregan Library, DCU, Drumcondra. Brought to you by @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social with Dave Rudden, YCPE Artist in Residence DCU, and supported by DCU Library. @dculibrary.bsky.social Read on for more details.

Publication day! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really looking forward to giving this talk next week! Thanks, @drswietlicki.bsky.social, for the invitation!

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Online Talk: "‘Lad’- dishness in Contemporary Irish YA Fiction” by Jennifer Mooney The University of Wrocław 8 April 2025 6 p.m. Warsaw time To participate in this talk, please register using this link: forms.office.com/e/0FDvCqQdpL or scan the QR code on the poster.

Delighted to be at proofing stage with my article for @isscl special issue of Irish Studies Review, ‘Race, Ethnicity and Representation in Irish Youth Literature and Culture’!

April 2nd is International Children's Book Day! I wrote about Jella Lepman's dream to build peace through children’s lit. after WW II – something pertinent to today’s context of children affected by conflicts. search.app/v5C2iiEui4MG...

Congratulations to our @dublincityuni.bsky.social MA in Children’s & YA Literature students who graduated today! 🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓Congrats in absentia for those who couldn’t make today 🎊🎉🥳

Enjoyed speaking about my work on EU-funded Creative Europe Project, G-Book, @dublincityuni.bsky.social FHSS Arts & Culture celebration yesterday. G-Book promotes gender positive children’s & YA literature. To see the bibliography (so far) go to search.app/mamNSxoGzrmu...

Excellent piece about Disney’s Snow White and its missed opportunities to explore modern issues by @dublincityuni.bsky.social PhD student & MA in Children’s & YA Literature graduate, Laura O’Flanagan 👏 search.app/6MAZjKtodEXY...

Snow White: this opportunity to empower Disney’s first princess falls short at every turn

There were opportunities to give Snow White more agency. Instead she is still waiting for a kiss from a man she hasn’t consented to.

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What can the 2023 award nominated picturebooks in the @childrensbooksireland.ie collection tell us about Irish children’s literature? Great session @dculibrary.bsky.social with our fantastic MA in Children’s & YA Literature students & my wonderful colleague, Dr Lucy Stone, yesterday!

Marvellous @isscl.bsky.social 21st bday @dublincityuni.bsky.social 🥳Thanks to @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social & our other speakers & panelists, including @chennessybooks.bsky.social & @nikiwan.bsky.social, for an inspiring day exploring the 'magic' & challenges of re-reading childhood books as adults

Valerie Coghlan, Bookbird president, writes about IBBY Congress Trieste for our MA in Children's & YA Lit Blog @dculibrary.bsky.social @irscl.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie Thanks to our student editors, Ananya Ajay & @friendsinthepages.bsky.social 👏 search.app/ntXvBLJtY8vp...

IBBY Congress Trieste 2024

Valerie Coghlan, the president of Bookbird, shares her experience attending IBBY Congress Trieste 2024. From insightful discussions to lively cultural events (and even some daring Greek dancing!), …

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