num_pages: 348
description: Writers killers nuns patriots artists healers pirates politicians entertainers saints courtesans leaders revolutionaries lovers warriors witches record-breakers and eccentrics are among the eclectic roster of Irishwomen resurrected from the dustbins of history by this rollicking read (according to Books Ireland ).In times when women were expected to marry and have children they traveled the world and sought out adventures. In times when women were expected to be seen and not heard they spoke out against oppression and used every creative means available to express their ideas and beliefs. Editor and writer Marian Broderick provides us with a series of lively portraits of seventy-five unorthodox Irishwomen. In these pages you will meet women you will never Maria Edworth Lady Jane Wilde Lady Augusta Gregory Peig Sayers Nora Barnacle Kitty Kiernan Anne Bonny Anne Devlin Mother Jones Countess Constance Markievicz Hanna Sheey Skeffington Fanny and Anna Parnell Maud Gonne St. Brighid Margaret Leeson Lady Betty Queen Maeve of Connacht Molly Brown Kathleen Behan Lola Monez Daisy Bates Greer Garson Lilly and Lolly Yeats and many more.Co-published with the O'Brien Press DublinWisconsin edition is for sale only in the U.S.A. it's territories and dependencies and Canada.
language: English
title: Wild Irish Women
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press