Dr. Pádraic Whyte

• A Place in the Canon: Padraic Colum's Newbery Books and the Development of American Children's Literature in, editor(s)Timothy Young , Story Time: Essays on the Betsy Reinecke Collection of American Children's Literature, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2017, pp139 - 155, [Pádraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2017
• Firing for the Hearth: Storytelling, Landscape, and Padraic Colum's The Big Tree of Bunlahy in, editor(s)Keith O'Sullivan, Pádraic Whyte , Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research, London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp145 - 161, [Pádraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2017
• Introduction in, editor(s)Keith O'Sullivan, Pádraic Whyte , Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research, London and New York, Palgrave, 2017, pp1 - 11, [Pádraic Whyte, Keith O'Sullivan]Book Chapter, 2017
• House, Land, and Family Life: Children's Fiction and Irish Homes in, editor(s)Liam Harte , The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp387 - 404, [Pádraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2020
• Keith O'Sullivan and Pádraic Whyte, Children's Literature Collections: Approaches to Research, London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 1 - 261ppBook, 2017
• Padraic Whyte, History for the Present, Film and Film Culture, 1, (1), 2002, p24 - 35Journal Article, 2002
• Growing Up in Manhattan: Children's Literature and New York City in, editor(s)Ross Wilson , New York: A Literary History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2020
• Padraic Whyte, Keith O'Sullivan, `Beyond Traditional Hierarchies: Creating Space for Children's Literature Collections,, Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung (GKJF) / Yearbook of the Children's Literature Research Society (GKJF): Beiträge aus Geschichte und Theorie (2022), 2022, p165 - 174Journal Article, 2022, TARA - Full Text
• Rewriting Buile Suibhne: Storytelling and The Frenzied Prince in, editor(s)Padraic Whyte Keith O'Sullivan , The Writings of Padraic Colum: 'That Queer Thing, Genius', London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp142 - 154, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2024
• Children's Novels After 1960 in, editor(s)Chris Morash , Cambridge History of the Irish Novel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026, [Pádraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2026
• Genders and Sexualities in, editor(s)Keith O'Sullivan Jennifer Mooney Peter Hunt Gabriel Dukels , The Routledge Companion to Young Adult Literature, London and New York, Routledge, 2026, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2026
• Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan, The Writings of Padraic Colum: 'That Queer Thing, Genius', London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 1 - 162ppBook, 2024
• Introduction in, editor(s)Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan , The Writings of Padraic Colum: 'That Queer Thing Genius', London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp1 - 7, [Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan]Book Chapter, 2024
• Padraic Whyte, The Potential and Possibilities of the Children's Cultural Archive: The Ark, Dublin, BIN-Norden, The Poetics and Politics of Children's Culture(s), Stockholm University, 8-9 May 2025, 2025, pp1 - 6Conference Paper, 2025
• Padraic Whyte, Queering Hawaiian Time: From Hawaii"s Young People to Aik"ne, Children's Literature Association (USA), Online, June 2025, 2025Conference Paper, 2025
• Pádraic Whyte, The Ark, Dublin: Children's Cultural Archives and the Space in Between, BUKS: The Journal of Child and Youth Cultures, 73/2026, 2026, p1 - 13Journal Article, 2026
• Pádraic Whyte, Radical Legacies: Reading Dance on My Grave Across the Decades, Children's Literature in Education, 2027Journal Article, 2027
• Pádraic Whyte, The History of Harry Spencer: Mary `Paul' Pollard and the beginnings of Irish Children's Literature, The Pollard Collection of Children's Books: A Symposium, Trinity Long Room Hub, November 2025, 2025Conference Paper, 2025
• Padraic Whyte, Boyhood, Reading, and Disinformation, International Children's Libraries Symposium on `Sustainable Reading Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", Marmara University, April 2027, 2027, Prof. Dr.  Asiye Kakirman YildizInvited Talk, 2027
• Pádraic Whyte, Gulliver's Travels and Children's Literature, Finding Swift: Satire, Power and Gulliver's Travels, Trinity College Dublin, 28/10/2026, 2026, Library of Trinity College, 1 - 14ppInvited Talk, 2026
• Padraic Whyte, Irish Childhoods: Children's Fiction and Irish History, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 1 - 220ppBook, 2011
• Children's Literature in, editor(s)James Murphy , The Oxford History of the Irish Book , Vol. IV: The Irish Book in English, 1800-1890, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp518 - 530, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2011
• Young Adult Fiction and Youth Culture in, editor(s)Valerie Coghlan, Keith O'Sullivan , Irish Children's Literature: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing, London and New York, Routledge, 2011, pp71 - 84, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2011
• Teenage Tantrums and Territorial Trauma; Mark O'Sullivan's 'Melody for Nora' in, editor(s)Valerie Coghlan and Mary Shine Thompson , Studies in Children's Literature; Divided Worlds, Dublin, Four Courts, 2007, pp120 - 129, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2007
• American Dreams and Irish Myths: John Sayles's 'The Secret of Roan Inish' in, editor(s)John Hill, Kevin Rockett , Studies in Irish Film, Dublin, Four Courts, 2006, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2006
• Escape From Fantasy Ireland; Martin Duffy's 'The Boy From Mercury' in, editor(s)John Hill, Kevin Rockett , Film History and National Cinema , Dublin, Four Courts, 2005, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2005
• Wars of Independence: The Construction of Irish Histories in the Work of Gerard Whelan and Siobhán Parkinson in, editor(s)Celia Keenan, Mary Shine Thompson , Studies in Children's Literature 1500-2000, Dublin, Four Courts, 2004, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2004
• Padraic Whyte, Validating The Veracity: Narrative Voice and the Construction of Authentic Histories in Joan O'Neill's 'Daisy Chain War', New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship , 10, (1), 2004Journal Article, 2004
• Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan, Children's Literature and New York City, London and New York, Routledge, 2014, 1 - 206ppBook, 2014
• Navigating Adolescence through the Streets of New York; 'I'll Get There. It Better be Worth the Trip' in, editor(s)Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan , Children's Literature and New York City, London and New York, Routledge, 2014, pp45 - 56, [Padraic Whyte]Book Chapter, 2014
• Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan, ' Website with Catalogue and Database - National Collection of Children's Books', TCD web nccb.tcd.ie, Trinity College Dublin, 2015, 1 - 200Digital research resource production, 2015
• Introduction in, editor(s)Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan , Children's Literature and New York City, London and New York, Routledge, 2014, pp1 - 5, [Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan]Book Chapter, 2014

• Padraic Whyte, 'Children's TV: Upon the Wild Waves', RTE Television, 2015, 1 - 15Broadcast
• Padraic Whyte, 'Same-sex relationships in children's literature', Newstalk Radio - The Right Hook, Newstalk, newstalk.com/Childrens-literature-and-young-adult-novels-that-look-at-samesex-relationshi, 2015, 1 - 15Broadcast
• Padraic Whyte, Are We There Yet? Same-Sex Relationships and Children's Literature, Children's Books Ireland, 2015, p5 - 8Journal Article
• Padraic Whyte and NCCB Team, 'Come Closer: The Darker Side of Children's Books', National Collection of Children's Books, Dublin City Libraries, https://nccb.tcd.ie/exhibition, 2015, 1 - 20Exhibition
• Padraic Whyte, Brighid Whyte, Paddy Whyte, 'Video with over 1 million views -Brighid and Paddy, Vote With Us', Vote With Us, https://youtu.be/Bv_FqRzFyXo, New York Times:https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/world/europe/for-one-irish-couple-backing-gay-marr, 2015, 1 - 2Visual art production
• Padraic Whyte, James Patterson and Reading for Boys, Inis Magazine, Winter, 2009Journal Article
• Padraic Whyte, Adaptation and Authenticity; Filming Children's Literature, Inis Magazine, Summer, 2004Journal Article
• Pádraic Whyte et al, 'Story Spinners: Irish Women & Children's Literature', Trinity College Dublin, Google Arts & Culture, 2018, -Exhibition
• Padraic Whyte, 'Exploring the Urban Jungle: the City in Children's Writing', International Literature Festival Dublin, International Literature Festival Dublin, https://ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festival/strand/storymachine/storymachine-podcast-chapter-3-rambling - 2021, 1 - 2Broadcast
• Padraic Whyte, 'Award-Winning Books for Children', International Literature Festival Dublin, https://ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festival/strand/storymachine/storymachine-podcast-chapter-4-award-winning-books-for-children/, 2021, 1 - 2Broadcast
• Sinead Moriarty, Padraic Whyte, Elizabeth Nixon, Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities, TARA, August, 2022, p1 - 39Report, TARA - Full Text
• Padraic Whyte, Keith O'Sulivan, Padraic Colum: 50th Anniversary Celebration of his Life and Work, 11/01/2022, 2022, Trinity Long Room HubMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Padraic Whyte, Keith O'Sullivan, Méabh Ní Choileáin, Jennifer Mooney, 'Padraic Colum: 50th Anniversary Celebration', https://dcu.mused.org/en/, https://dcu.mused.org/en/, Dublin City University, 2022, 1 - 15Exhibition
• Padraic Whyte, Curiouser and Curiouser: The Great Children's Book Quiz, International Literature Festival Dublin, Dublin, 24/05/2022, 2022, International Literature Festival DublinInvited Talk
• Pádraic Whyte, KPMG Book Awards, Inis Magazine, 2022, p8 - 12Journal Article
• Padraic Whyte, Padraic Colum to Aikane: Ireland, Hawai`i, and Retelling Myths for Children, The Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 14/03/2024, 2024, The Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1 - 20ppInvited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, Reflecting on Children's Book of the Year Awards, INIS Magazine, 68, 2023, p10 - 11Journal Article
• Padraic Whyte, Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities, 2022Meetings /Conferences Organised
• Padraic Whyte, Bold Girls: A Literary History of Wild Irish Girls, 2018, 2018, Trinity Long Room HubMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Padraic Whyte, Eilís Dillon, Eilís Dillon: Centenary Celebration, DLR Lexicon, March 2020, 2020Invited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, Reimagining Buile Suibhne: Padraic Colum's The Frenzied Prince (1943), Staff-Postgrad Seminar Series, School of English, Trinity Long Room ub, 2023Invited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, 'An Post Irish Book Awards', RTE One, 2024, 1 - 5Broadcast
• Elizabeth Nixon, Padraic Whyte, Joe Buggy, Sheila Greene, Discourses on Sexual Responsibility, Fatherhood and Masculinity Among Young Men from Lower Socio-Economic Groups , Dublin, Crisis Pregnancy Agency, 2010, p1 - 160Report, URL
• Padraic Whyte, 'Robert Louis Stevenson', Talking Histories, Newstalk Radio, 2013, 1 - 15Broadcast
• Padraic Whyte, 'Roald Dahl', Talking Histories, Newstalk Radio, 2011, 1 - 12Broadcast
• Padraic Whyte, 'Telling Tall and Tiny Tales; Children's Books Exhibition - with catalogue', The Ark: A Cultural Centre for Children, catalogue, Dublin, The Ark, 2012, 2012 - 2013Exhibition
• Padraic Whyte, The Pollard Collection of Children's Books: Constructing a History of Irish Children's Literature', Long Room Hub Library Lecture Series to mark the tercentenary of the Old Library, Trinity College, Trinity College Dublin, 2013, 1 - 40ppInvited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, Children's Literature and 19th Century Ireland: An Exploration of the Pollard Collection of Children's Books', Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Belfast, February 2013, 2013, Dr Crawford Gribben, 1 - 12ppInvited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, Betsy Beinecke Shirley Lecture on American Children's Literature; 'Children's Literature and New York City: A Whistle-Stop Tour', Betsy Beinecke Shirley Lecture on American Children's Literature;, Yale University, November 2012, 2012, Yale University, 1 - 30ppInvited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, Chair of CBI Children's Book of the Year Award: Announcing Winners, 2013, Dublin, 2013, 1 - 10ppInvited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, 'It's not the past that matters, it's the way you see it.' Ireland and children's fiction, National Library of Ireland, Dec 2011, 2011, National Library, 1 - 35ppInvited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, Children's Literature in the Classroom, Jesus and Mary College, Delhi, India, February, 2014, TCD Global Relations/ JMC staff, 1 - 18ppInvited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, St Stephen's College, Delhi, India, February, 2014, TCD Global Relations/ St Stephen's Literary Society, 1 - 18ppInvited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, Critical Theory and Children's Literature, Elphinstone College, Mumbai, February, 2014, TCD Global Relations, 1 - 18ppInvited Talk
• Padraic Whyte, 'Children's Book of the Year Award Announcements', RTE Television, 2014, 1 - 15Broadcast
• Padraic Whyte, 'Richard Dawkins and Fairytales', RTE Radio 1, Today with Sean O'Rourke, 2014, 1 - 15Broadcast
• Padraic Whyte, 'Upon the Wild Waves: A Journey through Myth in Children's Books - with online catalogue', Book of Kells Exhibition, Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin, TCD Library Website, 2015, 2014 - 2015Exhibition, URL
• Padraic Whyte, 'TG4 IMEALL - Interview about Upon the Wild Waves', Arts show, TG4 Television, 2014, 1 - 18Broadcast

• Title

  Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities
  Summary

  This inter-disciplinary project sought to investigate and advance the potential of shared reading groups to promote purposeful and meaningful dialogue among Northern Ireland interface communities. Trinity College Dublin partnered with Verbal, a voluntary organisation with nearly 30 years" experience working to improve cross-community relations in Northern Ireland. The project aimed to design a new framework and identify suitable literary texts for cross-community groups; conduct a pilot shared reading group; seek feedback from participants on group processes in relation to health and well-being, literary texts, and shared futures; and present findings in a report.
  Funding Agency

  Irish Research Council/ Dept of Taoiseach
  Date From

  01/12/2021
  Date To

  31/09/2022
• Title

  Memory and Displacement in Historical Fiction for Children about the Second World War, 2005"2021
  Summary

  With Siobhán Callaghan
  This PhD project examines the representation of memory and displacement in Anglophone historical
  fiction for children published between 2005 and 2021. It argues that memory is a significant
  aspect of how these texts ask the reader to engage with displacement. While there has been
  considerable critical discussion of Second World War displacement in twentieth century
  historical fiction for children, there has been little examination of twentieth century material.
  This study addresses this critical gap by analysing texts published during a significant period
  in the memory of the Second World War, characterised by an increased sense of the loss of the
  war from living memory, the implications of the global figures of displaced peoples exceeding
  those from the war for the first time since the 1940s, and the Refugee crisis in Europe. This
  study examines how recent historical fiction for children about the war has responded to these
  conditions and reimagines Second World War displacement for a twenty-first century implied
  child reader. Considering a select group of texts published in the United Kingdom, Australia,
  and the United States, my analysis establishes the specific cultural contexts that have
  conditioned the representation of wartime displacement in these novels, while also highlighting the connections and resonances between them.
  Funding Agency

  Irish Research Council
• Title

  The National Collection of Children's Books
  Summary

  He was co-recipient of a major Irish Research Council/Government of Ireland research grant to establish the National Collection of Children"s Books (NCCB) project. Along with Dr Keith O'Sullivan, Pádraic received funding of over €350,000 for an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional project to help establish Dublin as a world centre of children's literature research. Over a period of two years, a team of researchers documented children"s book collections held in Trinity College Library, the National Library of Ireland, the Church of Ireland College of Education Library, the Cregan Library, St Patrick"s College (DCU) and Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street. Trinity"s Research Impact Unit published the NCCB Research Impact Case Study in 2022.
  Funding Agency

  Irish Research Council
  Date From

  02/12/13
  Date To

  01/12/15
• Title

  The LA-TRAC Project
  Summary

  The LA"TRAC project is a collaboration between the Ark, a Cultural Centre for Children, and the School of English and seeks to establish a Living Archive for Teachers, Researchers, Artists, and Children. Guided by principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion as well as Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the research project breaks new ground and asks " how do we go about creating living cultural archives for, about, and with children?
  Funding Agency

  Trinity Research Boost Programme
  Date From

  1/07/24
  Date To

  Present
• Title

  Storytelling, Islands, and Identities: Ireland and Hawai"i, 1924-2024
  Summary

  As a Fulbright Scholar, I explored the relationship between Ireland and Hawai"i in terms of storytelling, islands, and identities in children"s literature. I travelled to Hawai"i to mark the centenary of the publication of Padraic Colum"s collection of Hawaiian myths `At the Gateways of the Day" (1924) and spent time in the archives, analysing the complexities and controversies behind this publication.
  Funding Agency

  Fulbright
  Date From

  13/01/24
  Date To

  18/04/24
• Title

  Transplanted Shamrocks: The Development of Irish-American Children's Literature
  Summary

  With Méabh Ní Choileáin
  Funding Agency

  Research Ireland
  Date From

  01/09/26
  Date To

  31/08/27
• Title

  Early Adolescence in Modern Irish Children's Literature
  Summary

  With Amanda Dunne.
  Funding Agency

  Trinity Research Doctorate Award
  Date From

  2024
  Date To

  2028
• Title

  Identity, Memory, and Migration in Young Adult Graphic Memoirs
  Summary

  With Elanur Williams.
  This PhD project examines first and second-generation immigrant experience in young adult graphic memoirs, and how the graphic memoir operates as cultural and literary artifact. By analysing formal and narrative strategies, it is argued that young adult graphic memoirs both complicate and contribute to the production of cultural memory within local and transnational spaces. The research positions young adult graphic memoirs as mnemonic structures, highlighting their capacity to encode, transmit, and reconfigure collective and individual memory through visual-verbal dynamics. The project also explores how young adult graphic memoirs engage with diaspora literature and testimonial practices to generate innovative forms of address that challenge conventional modes of witnessing and historical narration.
  Date From

  2026
  Date To

  2030

Languages and literature, Education, Performing arts,

• Fulbright Scholar Award 2023/24
• International Research Society for Children's Literature Edited Book Award, 2019 2019

• International Research Society for Children's Literature. Mentor to early career colleagues present
• Deputy Chair, Board of Directors of The Ark Children's Cultural Centre. Chair of Governance Committee. Former Chair of Research Working Group. present
• Member of Editorial Board for Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature present
• Member of the Arts Council Peer Panel present

• Advisor and funding assessor for the Dutch Research Council: Committee member in the SSH Open Competition M 2022 of the Dutch Research Council. 2022
• Laureate na nÓg/Children's Laureate Selection Panel (2018, 2026); working with peers to choose Ireland's new Laureate, a presidential appointment. 2018, 2026