Irish Women Writers

Author : Sinéad Gleeson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1848405480

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The Long Gaze Back by Sinéad Gleeson Pdf

An instant classic, The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced. Featuring: Niamh Boyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Brennan, Mary Costello, June Caldwell, Lucy Caldwell, Evelyn Conlon, Anne Devlin, Maria Edgeworth, Anne Enright, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Norah Hoult, Mary Lavin, Eimear McBride, Molly McCloskey, Bernie McGill, Lisa McInerney, Belinda McKeon, Siobhán Mannion, Lia Mills, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Kate O'Brien, Roisín O'Donnell, E.M. Reapy, Charlotte Riddell, Eimear Ryan, Anakana Schofield, Somerville & Ross, Susan Stairs. Taken together, the collected works of these writers reveal an enrapturing, unnerving, and piercingly beautiful mosaic of a lively literary landscape. Spanning four centuries, The Long Gaze Back features 8 rare stories from deceased luminaries and forerunners, and 22 new stories by some of the most talented Irish women writers working today. The anthology presents an inclusive and celebratory portrait of the high calibre of contemporary literature in Ireland. These stories run the gamut from heartbreaking to humorous, but each leaves a lasting impression. They chart the passions, obligations, trials and tribulations of a variety of vividly-drawn characters with unflinching honesty and relentless compassion. These are stories to savour.

Author : Caitriona Moloney,Helen Thompson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815630255

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Irish Women Writers Speak Out by Caitriona Moloney,Helen Thompson Pdf

Bringing together the diverse and marvelously articulate voices of women of Irish and Irish-American descent, editors Caitriona Moloney and Helen Thompson examine the complicated maps of experience that the women's public, private, and literary lives represent—particularly as they engage in both feminism and postcolonialism. Acknowledging Mary Robinson's revised view of Irish identity—now global rather than local—this work recognizes the importance of identity as a site of mobility. The pieces reveal how complex the terms "feminism" and "postcolonialism" are; they examine how the individual writers see their identities constructed and/or mediated by sexuality. In addition, the book traces common themes of female agency, violence, generational conflicts, migration, emigration, religion, and politics to name a few. As it represents the next wave of Irish women writers, this book offers fresh insight into the work of emerging and established authors and will appeal to a new generation of readers.

Author : Theresa O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813014573

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The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers by Theresa O'Connor Pdf

In an examination of the prose and poetry of Irish women writers from the late eighteenth century through the present, contributors to this collection argue that a hidden tradition of women's comedy has evolved side by side with the canonical comic tradition. They call for a revisionist reading of Ireland's comic intellectual heritage - a reading from the perspectives of two genders - and demand a new kind of double optic - an interpretive frame of reference capable of grappling with difference. This collection will be of particular interest to Joyceans because it examines the influence of Joyce, who has been dismissed by many feminist critics as a pornographer and a champion of patriarchal privilege. It will also be of interest to students of African and African-American literature for its linking of Ireland's comic tradition to that of Africa's - a tradition noted for its use of ethical dialogue and for giving voice to the other.

Author : Jill Franks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476602684

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British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement by Jill Franks Pdf

This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September illustrates the melancholy of gender performance and confusion of ethnic identity in the dying Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. In England, suffrage ideologies clashed with socialism and patriotism. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway contains a political unconscious that links its characters across class and gender. In the second wave, heterosexual romantic relationships come under scrutiny. Edna O'Brien's Country Girls trilogy reveals ways in which Irish Catholic ideologies abject femaleness; her characters internalize this abjection to the point of self-destruction. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook pits the protagonist's aspirations to write novels against the Communist Party's prohibitions on bourgeois values. In the third wave, Irish writers express the frustrations of their cultural identity. Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You takes her protagonist back to Ireland to heal her psychic wounds. In England, Thatcherism had created a materialistic culture that eroded many feminists' socialist values. Fay Weldon's Big Woman satirizes the demise of second-wave idealism, asking where feminism can go from here.

Author : Caitriona Moloney,Helen Thompson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815629710

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Irish Women Writers Speak Out by Caitriona Moloney,Helen Thompson Pdf

Bringing together the diverse and marvelously articulate voices of women of Irish and Irish-American descent, editors Caitriona Moloney and Helen Thompson examine the complicated maps of experience that the women's public, private, and literary lives represent—particularly as they engage in both feminism and postcolonialism. Acknowledging Mary Robinson's revised view of Irish identity—now global rather than local—this work recognizes the importance of identity as a site of mobility. The pieces reveal how complex the terms "feminism" and "postcolonialism" are; they examine how the individual writers see their identities constructed and/or mediated by sexuality. In addition, the book traces common themes of female agency, violence, generational conflicts, migration, emigration, religion, and politics to name a few. As it represents the next wave of Irish women writers, this book offers fresh insight into the work of emerging and established authors and will appeal to a new generation of readers.

Author : Deirdre F. Brady
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789622669

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Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958) by Deirdre F. Brady Pdf

As publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political campaigners against censorship and for intellectual freedom, a radical group of twentieth-century Irish women formed a female-only coterie to foster women’s writing and maintain a public space for professional writers. This book documents the activities of the Women Writers’ Club (1933–1958), exploring its ethos, social and political struggles, and the body of works created and celebrated by its members. Examining the period through a history of the book approach, it covers social events, reading committees, literary prizes, publishing histories, modernist printing presses, book fairs, reading practices, and the various political philosophies shared by members of the Club. It reveals how professional women writers deployed their networks and influence to carve out a space for their writing in the cultural marketplace, collaborating with other artistic groups to fight for creative freedoms and the right to earn a living by the pen. The book paints a vivid portrait of the Women Writers’ Club, showcasing their achievements and challenging existing orthodoxy on the role of women in Irish literary life.

Author : Elke D'hoker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319302881

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Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story by Elke D'hoker Pdf

This book traces the development of the modern short story in the hands of Irish women writers from the 1890s to the present. George Egerton, Somerville and Ross, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright and Claire Keegan are only some of the many Irish women writers who have made lasting contributions to the genre of the modern short story - yet their achievements have often been marginalized in literary histories, which typically define the Irish short story in terms of its oral heritage, nationalist concerns, rural realism and outsider-hero. Through a detailed investigation of the short fiction of fifteen prominent writers, this study aims to open up this critical conceptualization of the Irish short story to the formal properties and thematic concerns women writers bring to the genre. What stands out in thematic terms is an abiding interest in human relations, whether of love, the family or the larger community. In formal terms, this book traces the overall development of the Irish short story, highlighting both the lines of influence that connect these writers and the specific use each individual author makes of the short story form.

Author : Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1851322515

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Look! It's a Woman Writer! by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Pdf

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. With a foreword by Martina Devlin, and an introduction by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the anthology includes essays by Cherry Smyth, Mary Morrissy, Lia Mills, Moya Cannon, Aine Ní Ghlinn, Catherine Dunne, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Mary O'Donnell, Mary O'Malley, Ruth Carr, Evelyn Conlon, Anne Devlin, Ivy Bannister, Sophia Hillan, Medbh McGuckian, Mary Dorcey, Celia de Fréine, Máiríde Woods, Liz McManus, Mary Rose Callaghan, and Phyl Herbert.

Author : Ann Owens Weekes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813184722

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Irish Women Writers by Ann Owens Weekes Pdf

From the legendary poet Oisin to modernist masters like James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett, Ireland's literary tradition has made its mark on the Western canon. Despite its proud tradition, the student who searches the shelves for works on Irish women's fiction is liabel to feel much as Virginia Woolf did when she searched the British Museum for work on women by women. Critic Nuala O'Faolain, when confronted with this disparity, suggested that "modern Irish literature is dominated by men so brilliant in their misanthropy... [that] the self-respect of Irish women is radically and paradoxically checkmated by respect for an Irish national achievement." While Ann Owen Weekes does not argue with the first part of O'Faolain's assertion, she does with the second. In Irish Women Writers: An Uncharted Tradition, she suggests that it is the critics rather than the writers who have allowed themselves to be checkmated. Beginning with Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800) and ending with Jennifer Johnston's The Railway Station (1980), she surveys the best of the Ireland's female literature to show its artistic and historic significance and to demonstrate that it has its own themes and traditions related to, yet separate from, that of male Irish writers. Weekes examines the work of writers like E.OE. Sumerville and Martin Ross (pen names for cousins Edith Somerville and Violet Martin), Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Mary Lavin, and Molly Keane, among others. She teases out the themes that recur in these writers' works, including the link between domestic and political violence and re-visioning of traditional stories, such as Julia O'Faolain's use of the Cuchulain and Diarmuid and Grainne myths to reveal the negation of women's autonomy. In doing so, she demonstrates that the literature of Anglo- and Gaelic-Irish women presents a unified tradition of subjects and techniques, a unity that might become an optimistic model not only for Irish literature but also for Irish people.

Author : Kathryn Laing,Sinéad Mooney,Pilar Villar-Argaiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1911454218

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Irish Women - Writers - At the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Kathryn Laing,Sinéad Mooney,Pilar Villar-Argaiz Pdf

This collection presents international research on the work of Irish women writers at the turn of the twentieth century. These essays make a key contribution to contemporary feminist recovery projects and remapping the landscape of Irish literature of this period.

Author : Linda Anderson,Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1848406428

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Female Lines by Linda Anderson,Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado Pdf

Northern Irish women's writing is going from strength to strength and this anthology captures its current richness and audacity.

Author : Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803299979

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Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland by Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey Pdf

Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women’s life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England—even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English—and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women’s narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape. This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde—women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland—also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers’ construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.

Author : Sally Barr Ebest,Kathleen H. McInerney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015073667241

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Too Smart to be Sentimental by Sally Barr Ebest,Kathleen H. McInerney Pdf

Through a series of critical and biographical essays, this work offers a feminist literary history of twentieth-century Irish America.

Author : Matthew L. Reznicek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954323

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The European Metropolis by Matthew L. Reznicek Pdf

Building on the long-standing image of Paris as the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century" and the "Capital of Modernity," this book examines the city's place in the imagination of Irish women writers in the long nineteenth century. By reasserting the centrality of Paris, this book draws connections between Irish and European writers, expanding the map of Irish Studies and forging new points of contact between Irish literature and canonical figures like Goethe, Balzac, and Zola through the shared interest in the socio-economic development of modernity.

Author : Heather Ingman,Cliona O Gallchoir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1107578833

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A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature by Heather Ingman,Cliona O Gallchoir Pdf