Dr Jennifer Mooney
@mooneyjennifer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, DCU School of English
Children’s & YA Literature MA Chair
Applications now open: bit.ly/4hGaOyy
MA Blog: https://search.app/WNUm9uNmWL775wvS6
Children’s & YA Literature MA Chair
Applications now open: bit.ly/4hGaOyy
MA Blog: https://search.app/WNUm9uNmWL775wvS6
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.
Laura Ryan facilitated a fascinating discussion about preserving process in children’s book creation.
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
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 🎓:
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‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social
& the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI
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‘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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October 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
New posts on DCU MA in Children’s and YA Lit Blog by our graduates 🎓:
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‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social
& the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI
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‘The Accidental Academic’ by @drmcbainhudson.bsky.social
& the first in a 3part series on Children’s Lit & GenAI
‘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?’
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DCU Adjunct Prof. Peter Hunt asking our MA students, ‘do the basics of children’s lit. criticism stand up today?’
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October 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
‘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
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!
Adjunct Prof. Peter Hunt’s talk showed what a rich field Children’s Literature is!
October 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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!
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! 📚
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September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
@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! 😎
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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! 😎
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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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August 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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! 😎
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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! 😎
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This will be a fantastic event @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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.
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.
April 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This will be a fantastic event @dublincityuni.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Really looking forward to giving this talk next week! Thanks, @drswietlicki.bsky.social, for the invitation!
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.
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.
April 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Really looking forward to giving this talk next week! Thanks, @drswietlicki.bsky.social, for the invitation!
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’!
special issue of Irish Studies Review, ‘Race, Ethnicity and Representation in Irish Youth Literature and Culture’!
April 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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’!
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.
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April 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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.
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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 🎊🎉🥳
March 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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...
G-Book promotes gender positive children’s & YA literature. To see the bibliography (so far) go to search.app/mamNSxoGzrmu...
March 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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...
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 👏
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PhD student & MA in Children’s & YA Literature graduate, Laura O’Flanagan 👏
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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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March 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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 👏
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PhD student & MA in Children’s & YA Literature graduate, Laura O’Flanagan 👏
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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!
Great session @dculibrary.bsky.social with our fantastic MA in Children’s & YA Literature students & my wonderful colleague, Dr Lucy Stone, yesterday!
March 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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!
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
March 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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
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Thanks to our student editors, Ananya Ajay & @friendsinthepages.bsky.social 👏
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@dculibrary.bsky.social @irscl.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie
Thanks to our student editors, Ananya Ajay & @friendsinthepages.bsky.social 👏
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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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March 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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 👏
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@dculibrary.bsky.social @irscl.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie
Thanks to our student editors, Ananya Ajay & @friendsinthepages.bsky.social 👏
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Get a taste for @DCUSchoolofEng MA in Children’s & YA lit at our Postgrad Open Day in U Building, Glasnevin campus.
March 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Get a taste for @DCUSchoolofEng MA in Children’s & YA lit at our Postgrad Open Day in U Building, Glasnevin campus.
“Lashings of ginger beer” may be familiar but what about cake in The Tiger Who Came to Tea or baking in The Dos & Donuts of Love?
Get a taste for our MA in Children’s & YA lit at the DCU Postgraduate Open Day, 4-5.30 pm, 20/03 in the U Building on Glasnevin campus.
www.dcu.ie/postgraduate
Get a taste for our MA in Children’s & YA lit at the DCU Postgraduate Open Day, 4-5.30 pm, 20/03 in the U Building on Glasnevin campus.
www.dcu.ie/postgraduate
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March 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“Lashings of ginger beer” may be familiar but what about cake in The Tiger Who Came to Tea or baking in The Dos & Donuts of Love?
Get a taste for our MA in Children’s & YA lit at the DCU Postgraduate Open Day, 4-5.30 pm, 20/03 in the U Building on Glasnevin campus.
www.dcu.ie/postgraduate
Get a taste for our MA in Children’s & YA lit at the DCU Postgraduate Open Day, 4-5.30 pm, 20/03 in the U Building on Glasnevin campus.
www.dcu.ie/postgraduate
Looking forward to hosting @isscl.bsky.social 21st birthday @dublincityuni.bsky.social on Sat 22/03!
Join us for a day in celebration of the joy & magic of children’s lit & archives!
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Join us for a day in celebration of the joy & magic of children’s lit & archives!
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ISSCL Symposium “The Key to Joy: Rediscovering the Magic of Children’s Lit"
The ISSCL is holding a symposium in celebration of their twenty-first birthday, and you're invited!
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March 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Looking forward to hosting @isscl.bsky.social 21st birthday @dublincityuni.bsky.social on Sat 22/03!
Join us for a day in celebration of the joy & magic of children’s lit & archives!
www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-symp...
Join us for a day in celebration of the joy & magic of children’s lit & archives!
www.eventbrite.com/e/isscl-symp...