Reframing Irish Youth in the Sixties

by Carole Holohan

Book Overview

Reframing Irish Youth in the Sixties focuses on the position of youth in the Republic of Ireland at a time when the meaning of youth was changing internationally. It argues that the reformulation of youth as a social category was a key element of social change. While emigration was the key youth issue of the 1950s, in this period young people became a pivotal point around which a new national project of economic growth hinged. Transnational ideas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786941236
• ISBN13: 9781786941237
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"