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The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological
connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist
writing and political activism at the fin de siecle. From the 1880s
on, the 'Irish Question' was a central site of struggle in British
and Irish public discourse, and in this turbulent period a new
generation of Irish literary writers began to resist hegemonies of
a different kind, subverting gender and sexual identities and
challenging prescribed roles in the family. This important new book
is the first in-depth study which foregrounds the Irish and New
Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical
reception of fin de siecle writers and their work.
The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological
connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist
writing and political activism at the fin de siecle . This is the
first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts,
effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de
siecle writers and their work.
Women's literary expressions of war have long been neglected and at
times forgotten in Irish scholarship. In Women Writing War: Ireland
1880-1922 many of these forgotten women are revealed through their
writings as culturally active and deeply invested in the political
and military struggles of their turbulent times. From the Land Wars
to the Boer Wars, from the First World War to the Easter Rising,
the War of Independence and the Civil War, the fascinating women
considered in this volume-grapple with the experiential
representation of conflicts. The diverse range of topics explored
include: women's eye- witness accounts of 1916, Winifred Letts's
First World War poetry, the political rhetoric and experiences of
Anna Parnell and Anne Blunt during the Land War, Peggie Kelly's
fiction and Cumann na mBan activism, the cultural nationalism of
northern. Protestant "New Women" of the Glens of Antrim, Una Ni
Fhaircheallaigh's Irish language activism in and beyond the Gaelic
League, Emily Lawless's Boer War diary as well as the dramatic
collaboration of sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Countess Markievicz.The
book also includes a preface by historian Margaret Ward and an
extract from Lia Mills's award-winning historical novel Fallen, set
in Dublin during the Easter Rising (selected as the 2016 'One City
One Book' choice for both Dublin and Belfast). Engaging with recent
Scholarly debates on sexuality, war writing, and the politics of
Irish warfare, the authors of Women Writing War explore the ways in
which conflict narratives have been read - and interpreted - as
deeply gendered. Radicals, revolutionaries and queer activists, as
well as women who remained attached to the domestic sphere, are all
represented in this original and provocative volume on the
relationship between women and conflict.
This wide-ranging volume traces the development of second-wave
feminism in Ireland, drawing upon a diversity of rare primary
sources, including documents, photos, and publications. Connolly
and O'Toole explore several themes in Irish feminist politics from
the 1970s to the 1990s, including the emergence of pioneering
feminist groups and organizations; reproductive rights and
activism; the legal system and the state; the development of
cultural projects; feminism and Northern Ireland; lesbian activism;
and class and education. This book is an invaluable resource in the
fields of history, sociology, politics, Irish studies, and women's
studies.
This dictionary will make an important contribution the knowledge
of writing in Munster in both Irish and English over the past 200
years. The dictionary has entries on 560 writers, including 220 in
Irish. Each entry contains a bibliographical note, a list of key
references, and a bibliography where applicable. * advances
literary and cultural - as distinct from primarily historical -
research on the region of Munster over the last two centuries*
enables a new view, as a whole, of the work of women writers*
juxtaposes the work of Irish, English-language, and bilingual
writers, and thereby helps to develop an understanding of the
province of Munster as a diverse cultural milieu, and focus on the
role of regionality in the process of cultural creationThe Munster
Women Writers Project, based in the English Department at
University College Cork, was a recovery project aiming to make
available the basic materials for biographical and literary
research and analysis on the extensive number of women writers with
Munster backgrounds or strong Munster connections in the period
1800-2000. The objective was to make more information on these
writers available for future literary historians, feminist critics
and social historians to develop knowledge and understanding of
this material. By making available the basic materials for
scholarly research in this field, the project aims to help generate
critical analysis of the role of regional, class and gender factors
in the formation of writers, and the intersection of these factors
in the nature of the work produced.
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