Wee girls
Subtitle: women writing from an Irish perspective
By: edited by Lizz Murphy.
Contributors: Murphy, Lizz.
Publisher: Spinifex
Published: 1996
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors.; English literature -- Women authors.; English literature -- 20th century.; Irish literature.
Notes: "Women writing from an Irish perspective in Australia, Ireland, England, the United States, Canada and New Zealand."--P. [4] of cover.
Fiction, poetry and autobiographical writings.
Table of contents: title: Searching ; The beginning ; Changing ; The final season / Robyn Rowland; title: My grandmother's voice ; The breath of history ; The Gaelic poets warned me ; The whiteness of snow ; Learning to live with it ; I cannot love you as you want to be loved ; I saw a fish this morning / Mary Dorcey; title: Famine fever ; The whole nine yards / Helena Mulkerns; title: A shadow on the heart ; To whom it may concern ; A joyous day / Colleen Burke; title: The making of a writer ; The marvellous boy / Linda Anderson; title: Sheelan̂aĝigging around / Nuala Archer; title: Power cuts / Siobhán McHugh; title: Extract from Echoes / Maeve Binchy; title: Extract from Outercourse / Mary Daly; title: Being Irish ; Belief / Sue Reidy; title: How I might write Irish ; Broken language ; Lunch music café ; Among trees ; Invisible ink ; Ideas of sirens ; Antipodean geography ; The pure in heart / Jill Jones; title: Drawing ballerinas : how being Irish has influenced me as a writer ; The mast year ; Road 32, roof 13-23, grass 23 ; The dead are more alive ; Rathlin Road / Medbh McGuckian; title: The roadside ; Maybe it was 1970 ; Summer breeze / Cherry Smyth; title: Seeing stars ; Falling asleep with strangers / Joan Bridget; title: Girl beaming in a white dress / Ailbhe Smyth; title: Growing a language ; Paper petals ; White petals ; Good fairy bad fairy ; My Irishness ; Wee girls ; Sentiments ; Millies ; Tarts ; Bobbing for apples ; Speaking of Eve ; Sabbath ; Good women ; Dying ; Deadmen's eyes ; Time out ; The planet next door / Lizz Murphy; title: Once upon a time ; A wedding ; Skeletons ; Coming back down to earth ; priorities / Bub Bridger; title: Loop the loop / Francesca Rendle-Short; title: Potatofah-Minirish ; Lifo / Pam Lewis; title: On bding an Irish woman writer ; Tomato time ; Long drive to work ; Snowy via Canberra ; Lamb-marking ; rites ; Bee Yellow Native ; Circling Dublin / Bronwyn Rodden; title: The flogger ; Prism ; The taxi man knows ; Mothercare ; Higher purchase ; The flute girl's dialogue / Rita Ann Higgins; title: Anna Liffey ; Making the difference ; The emigrant Irish / Eavan Boland.