Dorothy Macardle
Subtitle: a life
By: Nadia Clare Smith.
Publisher: Woodfield Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781905094035
Subjects: Macardle, Dorothy, -- b. 1889.; Women authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography.; Women historians -- Ireland -- Biography.; Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Mainly remembered for The Irish Republic and her close association with Eamon de Valera, Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was one of the most popular and influential Irish historians of her time. She was also a journalist, playwright, novelist, and political activist. This first biography of Macardle 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 international human rights work. An Irish nationalist writer with an international reputation, Dorothy Macardle was a woman of many facets, and her career sheds light on modern Irish political history, interwar-era women's history, and Irish historiography and literature. -- Publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-149) and index.