This book provides an engaging and informative insight into
the experiences, dreams and hopes of children and teenagers in contemporary
Ireland.

Pat O'Connor is from Castleconnell Co. Limerick, Ireland. He has won the Sean O Faoláin International Short Story Prize, the Glimmertrain Best Start short story prize (joint), and been shortlisted for the Francis McManus, Fish, Hennessy and other prizes. His stories and articles have been published in journals, newspapers and anthologies in Ireland and abroad.
Southword, Revival, Crannog, The Penny Dreadful, Irish Independent, Irish Times, China Writers Association, Pure Slush (Australia), and broadcast on RTE. He has been anthologized by Munster Literature Centre, Limerick Writers Centre, and in Hennessy New Irish Writing 2005-2015 amongst others. His radio play This Time It's Different was broadcast on 95FM in December 2014.

Acknowledgements
List of tables and figures
1. Young people in Irish Society: context and key concepts
2. Methodology
3. Love and work
4. Discourses about time
5. Discourses about space
6. Other aspects of narratives of the self
7. Young people's life styles
8. Relationship between the written texts and drawings/lyrics
9. Summary and conclusions
References
Index