Chapter proposals are invited for an edited collection that examines how race and ethnicity have been imagined, negotiated, and represented in Irish children’s and young adult literature — and in literature by young people — from 1600 to 2000. This volume builds directly on the 2025 Irish Studies Review special issue on race, ethnicity, and representation on in 21st-century Irish youth literature which was the first full-length scholarly publica on to map this under researched field. The special issue demonstrated the richness and urgency of examining how difference, belonging, and alterity are conceptualised in contemporary Irish youth texts, and highlighted the need for deeper historical contextualised on and research.
Please email a 400-word proposal including an outline of the theoretical framework and primary text/s for analysis and a 150-word author biography by 29th May 2026 to raceirishyouthlit@gmail.com with the subject line ‘Proposal for edited collection’.
For more details and the full call for chapters, see here.