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Charts the development of second wave feminism in Ireland, from the 1970s to the 1990s, including the emergence of pioneering feminist groups and organisations; reproductive rights and activism; the legal system and the State; the development of cultural projects; feminism and Northern Ireland; lesbian activism; class and education.

Biographical essays of women who were significant figures in Irish political life in the twentieth century. These studies recount the lives and work of trade unionists and political activists who campaigned on numerous significant issues, from suffrage to pacifism, republicanism, trade unionist, socialism and health reform.

Described by Yeats as 'the nearest ... they have to a true poet' Mitchell (1866-1926) rebelled against privileged society and the Protestant Church. Dublin from the Easter Rising, the signing of the Treaty and the Civil War is seen through her eyes. Objective despite her republican views, she lampooned contemporary politics and the literary world.

Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was a political activist, journalist, novelist, broadcaster, playwright and influential historian. This first biography traces her life from her involvement in the War of Independence to her role as a leading civil libertarian in the 1950s, and discusses her literary career and her international human rights work.

The artist Frances Georgiana Chenevix Trench, better known as Cesca, kept a detailed diary of her involvement in the nationalist movement as a member of Cumann na mBan, as well as a personal account of her presence in the Howth gun-running incident and the events of Easter Week 1916.

Kate Cullen's riveting account of the close-knit life of Protestant Ireland, a society absorbed in its own triumphs and misfortunes, in its religion and fashions, and yet conscious that history was being made. During the 1840s she lived in Dublin and visited Sligo, Donegal and Leitrim. She witnessed the Famine, though was cushioned from it.

In these dark, witty stories, award-winning author David Butler follows the lives of characters who are driven to the edge, and shines a light on the many sides of what it means to be Irish in the twenty-first century.

Known for tense and often troubling stories in her award-winning debut, When Black Dogs Sing, Farrelly enters darker and murkier places in her second collection. Unsettling, often disturbing, these stories follow the lives of characters who, finding themselves in fearful situations, triumph against the odds.

The fifth short story collection by Belfast author writer and playwright, Rosemary Jenkinson, who is renowned for being one of the sharpest and boldest chroniclers of contemporary life. These lyrical, witty, and glittering stories are all bound together by the luminescence of Jenkinson's peerless prose.

Tells the story of two young people whose lives are changing. They are both trying to make their way in the world. Rachel's estranged father has just come back into her life, and Frank is trying to find his feet as a newly qualified barrister. Circumstances lead both to the West of Ireland.

Although Tory Island, a small island off the north coast of Ireland, has been a stronghold of the Irish language for centuries, the island has no literary tradition. This recently discovered manuscript, written over 100 years ago, is a major literary find. Written in a rich Tory dialect, the novel is a story full of travel and adventure.

Mary Turley-McGrath's new collection is grounded in contemplations of her natural surroundings. Clearly aware of the darkness overshadowing the beauty of the natural world in our time, the poet confronts us with the full and paradoxical image of human experience.

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 accounts of their experiences as women writing.

A Yeatsian dream of escape from the mind-numbing banalities and demands of adult and modern life. In these poems, the poet locates some temporary shelter from the storm in memories of childhood, sacred sites of personal pilgrimage, and life-affirming muses.

Love is the central force in Birdie, a collection of 16 flash fictions that sing with the voices of women loving, losing, learning. The characters here find strength, despite the sorrows of death & deceit: a ghost-child returns to Massachusetts to comfort her grieving mother; a Spanish orange tycoon's daughter regrets her mother's terrible choices.

In this debut collection from a poet whose reverence for nature is a constant and comforting aesthetic, the poems explore themes of innocence and experience. From the intimacy of personal loss to war and its cruel consequences, these poems are always surprising, always true.

Here are the stories of boys, mere children, waiting in the square to be hired by a rich farmer who comes and squeezes young muscles before making his choice. Here is talk of hard borders and heartache; the harsh life of the mill workers; the dark secrets of the river; a journey with the poet's father on the last train to Sion Mills.

In this contemporary drama, five women go to a house party for a cosmetics sale. The women soon learn the cosmetic manufacturer has a special formula laid out for the evening, which they insist on being followed. Dissatisfied with the formula, the women break the rules with consequences they couldn't have imagined.

A new collection of poetry by one of Ireland's finest poets. His ongoing affair with his native Donegal landscape is unsurpassed in its subtle understandings of people and place.

Time plays a major role in Imbolg, Maighread Medbh's eighth book of poetry. Change & choice with their shadows, doubt & fear inhabit the book in differing forms, but sensual pleasure is always in the frame with an abiding element of play. Her 'Lockdown Diary', from March /April 2020, encompasses 50 days of meditations on the first Covid-19 lockdown

Geraldine Mitchell's poems offer a timely warning that the planet is mortal and a reassuring reminder of life's cyclical nature. She reflects on a life marked out in distances - between cities; the sky to the sea; the spaces between the paw prints of a wolf; masterfully excavating extraordinary glimpses of the ordinary.