Adolescence in Modern Irish History

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Robert Hyndman’s Toe: Romanticism, Schoolboy Politics and the Affective Revolution in Late Georgian Belfast

Chapter 3 ‘A Sudden and Complete Revolution in the Female’: Female Adolescence and the Medical Profession in Post-Famine Ireland

Chapter 5 ‘The Most Dangerous, Reckless, Passionate … Period of Their Lives’: The Irish Borstal Offender, 1906–1921

Chapter 6 An Irish Nationalist Adolescence: Na Fianna Éireann, 1909–1923

Chapter 7 ‘Storm and Stress’: Richard Devane, Adolescent Psychology and the Politics of Protective Legislation 1922–1935

Chapter 8 ‘How Will We Kill the Evening?’: ‘Degeneracy’ and ‘Second Generation’ Male Adolescence in Independent Ireland

Chapter 9 A Powerful Antidote? Catholic Youth Clubs in the Sixties

Chapter 10 The Emergence of an Irish Adolescence: 1920s to 1970s