Poet Pauline Hall reading from Cream of the Milk
Channel: Dublin City Libraries
Date: 2014-11-14

The Cream of the Milk is a broadsheet which celebrates thirteen Irishwomen from Irish history and mythology, some of them fair, none of them middling. It is published in a limited edition of 250 with original clerihews (short humorous poems) by Pauline Hall, embellished with full colour illustrations by Alan Nolan, and biographical notes.

The remarkable Irish women included in this handsome broadsheet are: Nora Barnacle, Dr James Barry, Nurse Mamie Cadden, Biddy Early, Grawnawale/Grace O’Malley, Eileen Gray, Iseult the Fair, Lady Hazel Lavery, Constance Countess Markievicz, Marie-Louise O’Murphi, Peig Sayers, Margaret Burke Sheridan, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde “Speranza”.

Recorded at Pearse Street Library on Wednesday, 17th September 2014.