@inbook{82bcdc7b39f248d19945a7a6d4849965,
title = "Toys, Material Culture and Play Space in Ireland: The Iveagh Trust Play Centre",
abstract = "This chapter explores the world of the Iveagh Trust Play Centre, Dublin, established in 1909. The Play Centre offered a space for urban working-class children in which they could partake in play activities with toys and books, designed to foster particular values and behaviours. An examination of the Play Centre provides a context from which to expose concepts and beliefs, identities and behavioural enactments that crucially influenced conceptions, representations and actualities of childhood in Ireland in the early twentieth century. Rutherford{\textquoteright}s chapter describes the ways in which play space, including the toys and material culture encountered there, contextualised and mediated childhood experiences; provided structure and form to children{\textquoteright}s lived experiences; and tacitly evoked exchanges and possibilities between children and children{\textquoteright}s bodies.",
author = "Vanessa Rutherford",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, The Author(s).",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-92822-7\_10",
language = "English",
series = "Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "207--227",
booktitle = "Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood",
address = "United Kingdom",
}