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Look! It's a woman writer! : Irish literary feminisms, 1970-2020 / Eíliś Ni D́huibhne, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dublin, Ireland : Arlen House, 2021.Description: 349 pages : illustrations (colour), portraits (colour) ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781851322510 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9 NíDH 23
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Martina Devlin -- Introduction / Eíliś Ni D́huibhne -- Catching Myself On / Cherry Smyth -- Cringe / Mary Morrissy -- The World Split Open / Lia Mills -- Poetry: A Door Opening / Moya Cammon -- The Smell of Old Books / Áine Ní Ghlinn -- Writing for My Life / Catherine Dunne -- The Dream Itself Enchanted Me / Eíliś Ni D́huibhne -- Bohemia, Bohemia / Mary O'Donnell -- Notes on the Early Days / Mary O'Malley -- I May Be Silent, But / Ruth Carr -- Look! It's a Woman Writer! / Evelyn Conlon -- Swimming in History / Anne Devlin -- Dublin Made Me a Writer / Ivy Bannister -- Apostrophe / Sophia Hillan -- A Poet's Life / Medbh McGuckian --/ Why? / Mary Dorcey -- Becoming the Writer l Am / Celia de Fréine (1948) -- My Writing Life / Máiríde Woods -- This is a Race / Liz McManus -- How I Became a Writer / Mary Rose Callaghan -- The Fruits of a Life / Phyl Herbert -- AFTERWORD: Irish Literary Feminisms, 1970-2020 / Alan Hayes.
Summary: Mapping the changes that have occurred in Irish literature over the past fifty years, this volume includes twenty-one writers, poets, and playwrights from the North and South of Ireland, who tell their own stories. They are funny, tragic, angry, philosophical, but all are vivid personal accounts of their experiences as women writing during a pivotal period in the history of Ireland.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 820.9 NíDH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R17408Y0499

Contributors: Ivy Bannister, Mary Rose Callaghan, Moya Cannon.

Cover image by Rosie McGurran.

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Martina Devlin -- Introduction / Eíliś Ni D́huibhne -- Catching Myself On / Cherry Smyth -- Cringe / Mary Morrissy -- The World Split Open / Lia Mills -- Poetry: A Door Opening / Moya Cammon -- The Smell of Old Books / Áine Ní Ghlinn -- Writing for My Life / Catherine Dunne -- The Dream Itself Enchanted Me / Eíliś Ni D́huibhne -- Bohemia, Bohemia / Mary O'Donnell -- Notes on the Early Days / Mary O'Malley -- I May Be Silent, But / Ruth Carr -- Look! It's a Woman Writer! / Evelyn Conlon -- Swimming in History / Anne Devlin -- Dublin Made Me a Writer / Ivy Bannister -- Apostrophe / Sophia Hillan -- A Poet's Life / Medbh McGuckian --/ Why? / Mary Dorcey -- Becoming the Writer l Am / Celia de Fréine (1948) -- My Writing Life / Máiríde Woods -- This is a Race / Liz McManus -- How I Became a Writer / Mary Rose Callaghan -- The Fruits of a Life / Phyl Herbert -- AFTERWORD: Irish Literary Feminisms, 1970-2020 / Alan Hayes.

Mapping the changes that have occurred in Irish literature over the past fifty years, this volume includes twenty-one writers, poets, and playwrights from the North and South of Ireland, who tell their own stories. They are funny, tragic, angry, philosophical, but all are vivid personal accounts of their experiences as women writing during a pivotal period in the history of Ireland.

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