Bold Girls: A Literary History of Wild Irish Girls

Recorded March 8, 2018. In this talk Dr Cahill explores the figure
of the unruly Irish girl in children’s fiction. She will
particularly focus on the end of the nineteenth century and the
beginning of the twentieth century, looking at the extraordinary
volume of novels published in the period that feature wild Irish
girls: girls who disrupt schools, who become artists, who open
factories, and who even engage in revolutionary activity. These
girls will be considered alongside more recent YA fiction, novels
which highlight the ‘bold girl’ in all her complexity. The work of
19th century writers such as L.T. Meade, Rosa Mulholland and
Katharine Tynan as well as contemporary writers such as Louise
O'Neill and Moira Fowley-Doyle will be considered. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/