Ireland's women
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
Published: 1994
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: Introductions
pagenum: xvii
authors: the editors; label: 1
title: Bodies; title: Katie-Ellen Takes on the World
pagenum: 3
authors: Moy McCrory; title: From Ulysses
pagenum: 4
authors: James Joyce; title: Blodewedd
pagenum: 6
authors: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill; title: Abortion
pagenum: 7
authors: Patricia McCarthy; title: Content and Tasteful
pagenum: 9
authors: Julie O'Callaghan; title: The Lady's Dressing-Room
pagenum: 10
authors: Jonathan Swift; title: From The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
pagenum: 14
authors: Brian Moore; title: Curves
pagenum: 15
authors: Áine Ní Ghlinn; title: A Vision
pagenum: 16
authors: Tadgh Dall O'Huiginn; title: The Redemptorist
pagenum: 17
authors: Austin Clarke; title: From Rosa Amorosa
pagenum: 18
authors: George Egerton; title: It is My Belief That Armagh is a Feminist Issue
pagenum: 19
authors: Nell McCafferty; title: From Journal of a Lady of Fashion
pagenum: 22
authors: Countess of Blessington; title: Coming Out
pagenum: 23
authors: Máighréad Medbh; title: Lay Your Arms Aside
pagenum: 25
authors: Pierce Ferriter; title: From Lisa: The Story of an Irish Drug Addict
pagenum: 26
authors: 'Lisa'; title: From The Newton Letter
pagenum: 27
authors: John Banville; title: From Report on the Kilkenny Incest Case
pagenum: 28
authors: Susan McKay; title: From Night
pagenum: 30
authors: Edna O'Brien; title: From Possibilities
pagenum: 31
authors: Mary Morrissy; title: Potato Cakes
pagenum: 32
authors: Theodora Fitzgibbon; title: From Attracta
pagenum: 33
authors: William Trevor; title: From Dress in Ireland
pagenum: 35
authors: Mairead Dunlevy; title: From Stir Fry
pagenum: 36
authors: Emma Donoghue; title: From Acts of Subversion
pagenum: 38
authors: Liz McManus; label: 2
title: Girly Years; title: From Good Behaviour
pagenum: 43
authors: Molly Keane; title: From The Long Way Home
pagenum: 44
authors: Moya Roddy; title: Miss Makebelieve of Dublin
pagenum: 45
authors: James Stephens; title: From Hush-a-Bye Baby
pagenum: 48
authors: Margo Harkin; title: From There's Something About a Convent Girl
pagenum: 53
authors: Mary Kenny; title: From Farewell to Youth
pagenum: 54
authors: Peig Sayers; title: From The Homesick Garden
pagenum: 56
authors: Kate Cruise O'Brien; title: From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl
pagenum: 58
authors: Maeve Binchy; title: Stella to Dr Swift
pagenum: 60
authors: Esther Johnson; title: From The Cloven Rock
pagenum: 62
authors: Mary O'Malley; title: From All for Hecuba
pagenum: 64
authors: Micheál mac Liammóir; title: From Sisters by Rite
pagenum: 67
authors: Joan Lingard; title: Roz, Danny, Henry and Mum
pagenum: 68
authors: Ivy Bannister; title: From Orange Horses
pagenum: 69
authors: Maeve Kelly; title: From Seventy Years Young
pagenum: 70
authors: Daisy Fingall; title: From The Price of My Soul
pagenum: 73
authors: Bernadette Devlin; title: From The Bridge
pagenum: 75
authors: Emma Cooke; title: Going to the Gaiety
pagenum: 76
authors: Sheila O'Hagan; title: From Daisy Chain War
pagenum: 77
authors: Joan O'Neill; title: From A Lady's Child
pagenum: 79
authors: Enid Starkie; title: Golden Stockings
pagenum: 82
authors: Oliver St John Gogarty; label: 3
title: Love; title: From The Playboy of the Western World
pagenum: 85
authors: J. M. Synge; title: Hate Goes Just as Far as Love
pagenum: 87
authors: translated by Brendan Kennelly; title: Reconciliation
pagenum: 88
authors: translated by Brendan Kennelly; title: The Coolun
pagenum: 89
authors: translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson; title: Afterlove
pagenum: 90
authors: Moya Cannon; title: From On Our Backs
pagenum: 91
authors: Rosita Sweetman; title: From Woodbrook
pagenum: 92
authors: David Thomson; title: From Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert 1170-1806
pagenum: 94
authors: Dorothea Herbert; title: From Keynotes
pagenum: 95
authors: George Egerton; title: Men and Women
pagenum: 96
authors: translated by Frank O'Connor; title: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
pagenum: 97
authors: W. B. Yeats; title: Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
pagenum: 98
authors: W. B. Yeats; title: The Spinning Wheel
pagenum: 98
authors: John Francis Waller; title: From The Crock of Gold
pagenum: 100
authors: James Stephens; title: I Shall Not Die for Thee
pagenum: 101
authors: translated by Douglas Hyde; title: By Design
pagenum: 102
authors: Siobhan Campbell; title: Dear Dark Head
pagenum: 103
authors: translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson; title: The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
pagenum: 104
authors: Sinéad O'Connor; title: The Story of Sarah Curran
pagenum: 105
authors: Geraldine Haverty; title: Donall Oge: Grief of a Girl's Heart
pagenum: 107
authors: translated by Augusta Gregory; title: [I Would Like My Love to Die]
pagenum: 109
authors: Samuel Beckett; title: From Cal
pagenum: 109
authors: Bernard MacLaverty; title: From Ellen
pagenum: 111
authors: Ita Daly; title: The Death of Aillil
pagenum: 113
authors: Francis Ledwidge; title: Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers
pagenum: 114
authors: W. B. Yeats; label: 4
title: Marriage and Family; title: Pillow Talk
pagenum: 117
authors: translated by Joseph Dunn; title: The Pattern
pagenum: 119
authors: Paula Meehan; title: A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage
pagenum: 122
authors: Jonathan Swift; title: Charlotte's Delivery
pagenum: 125
authors: Medbh McGuckian; title: From Elizabeth Fitzgerald
pagenum: 126
authors: Jonah Barrington; title: Terrorist's Wife
pagenum: 127
authors: Angela Greene; title: From Happy Days
pagenum: 128
authors: Samuel Beckett; title: Silence
pagenum: 130
authors: Biddy Jenkinson; title: The Red-haired Man's Wife
pagenum: 131
authors: James Stephens; title: The Snoring Bedmate
pagenum: 133
authors: translated by John V. Kelleher; title: Prayer for a Little Child
pagenum: 135
authors: Winifred Letts; title: From Home Before Night
pagenum: 136
authors: Hugh Leonard; title: Devoted Mothers
pagenum: 137
authors: Derry Jeffares; title: From Sisters
pagenum: 137
authors: June Levine; title: From The Book of Irish Curses
pagenum: 138
authors: Patrick C. Power; title: From Amongst Women
pagenum: 139
authors: John McGahern; title: From Stranger in Aran
pagenum: 141
authors: Elizabeth Rivers; title: From The Dupe
pagenum: 142
authors: Frances Sheridan; title: From Castle Rackrent
pagenum: 145
authors: Maria Edgeworth; title: The Mother's Lament at the Slaughter of the Innocents
pagenum: 147
authors: translated by Kuno Meyer; title: From The Excursion
pagenum: 149
authors: Mary Beckett; title: Her Sister
pagenum: 150
authors: Moira O'Neill; title: From A Drama in Muslin
pagenum: 151
authors: George Moore; title: The Hero's Sleep
pagenum: 156
authors: Maire Mhac an tSaoi; title: The Family Breaks Up
pagenum: 157
authors: Mrs Kathleen Behan; title: Any Woman
pagenum: 159
authors: Katharine Tynan; title: The Bit O' Strange
pagenum: 163
authors: translated by A. H. Leahy; title: A Learned Mistress
pagenum: 167
authors: translated by Frank O'Connor; title: From Letters of an Irish Parish Priest
pagenum: 168
authors: John B. Keane; title: From No Country for Young Men
pagenum: 169
authors: Julia O'Faolain; title: From The 'Act of Trust' in a Middle-Irish Story
pagenum: 171
authors: David Greene; title: From Memoirs of Mrs Letitia Pilkington
pagenum: 172
authors: Letitia Pilkington; title: From December Bride
pagenum: 173
authors: Sam Hanna Bell; title: Deirdre
pagenum: 175
authors: W. B. Yeats; title: From Thine in Storm and Calm
pagenum: 175
authors: Amanda McKittrick Ros; title: From The History of Betty Ireland
pagenum: 176
authors: Anon; title: From Mary Lavelle
pagenum: 178
authors: Kate O'Brien; title: From The Invisible Worm
pagenum: 180
authors: Jennifer Johnston; title: From The Faithless Wife
pagenum: 182
authors: Sean O'Faolain; title: From The Woman's Daughter
pagenum: 185
authors: Dermot Bolger; title: From Dora
pagenum: 187
authors: Polly Devlin; title: From A Time to Love
pagenum: 188
authors: Brid Mahon; title: From Encounter
pagenum: 191
authors: translated by Patrick C. Power; title: From Eclipsed
pagenum: 192
authors: Patricia Burke Brogan; title: The Portable Virgin
pagenum: 194
authors: Anne Enright; label: 6
title: Money and Power; title: Pep-Talk to Poets from Their Sales Manager
pagenum: 197
authors: Julie O'Callaghan; title: Two Letters
pagenum: 198
authors: W. R. O'Hegarty; title: The Constitution and the Role of Women
pagenum: 200
authors: Dr Yvonne Scannell; title: From Directions to the Waiting-Maid
pagenum: 202
authors: Jonathan Swift; title: In View of the Circumstances
pagenum: 203
authors: Nell McCafferty; title: From The Red and the Green
pagenum: 205
authors: Iris Murdoch; title: From Wanderjahre
pagenum: 207
authors: E. B. d'Auverge; title: From The Factory Girls
pagenum: 208
authors: Frank McGuinness; title: Spindle and Shuttle
pagenum: 211
authors: May Morton; title: From Across the Bitter Sea
pagenum: 214
authors: Eilis Dillon; title: From The Plough and the Stars
pagenum: 216
authors: Sean O'Casey; title: Prostitution and Rescue Work in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
pagenum: 217
authors: Maria Luddy; title: From Edna O'Brien Interview
pagenum: 218
authors: Julia Carlson; title: Biddy Mulligan
pagenum: 219
authors: Seamus Kavanagh; title: Some People Know What It Is Like
pagenum: 220
authors: Rita Ann Higgins; title: From Workhouses and Irish Female Paupers
pagenum: 221
authors: Dympna McLoughlin; title: From Women and Property
pagenum: 223
authors: Aileen O'Meara; title: Songs of Peace
pagenum: 225
authors: Mary Dorcey; title: From The Flowering
pagenum: 227
authors: Eilis Ni Dhuibhne; title: From Women and Madness
pagenum: 228
authors: Elizabeth Malcolm; title: From Mr Brennan's Heaven
pagenum: 230
authors: Victoria White; title: From The Feminine Animal
pagenum: 231
authors: Charlotte Grace O'Brien; title: From Irish Women and Property in the Sixteenth Century
pagenum: 233
authors: K. W. Nicholls; title: From The Hamster Wheel
pagenum: 234
authors: Marie Jones; title: From On Our Backs
pagenum: 236
authors: Rosita Sweetman; title: The Woman of Three Cows
pagenum: 237
description: Translated by James Clarence Mangan; title: From Women in Gaelic Society
pagenum: 239
authors: Katharine Simms; title: From A Kind of Scar
pagenum: 241
authors: Eavan Boland; title: Those People
pagenum: 242
authors: Eilean Ní Chuilleanaín; title: From The Women Who Won
pagenum: 243
authors: Una Claffey; title: Career Girl
pagenum: 244
authors: Anthony Blinco; title: From Community Women's Action
pagenum: 245
authors: Eileen Evason; title: Them's Your Mother's Pills
pagenum: 247
authors: Leland Bardwell; title: From To Be a Pilgrim
pagenum: 249
authors: Joyce Cary; title: From A Great Day for the Women of Ireland
pagenum: 251
authors: Ailbhe Smyth; title: From The Inaugural Speech
pagenum: 253
authors: Mary Robinson; label: 7
title: Shapechangers; title: From The War for the Bull of Cuailgne
pagenum: 259
description: Translated by Augusta Gregory; title: Pygmalion's Image
pagenum: 263
authors: Eilean Ní Chuilleanaín; title: From Alice Kyteler
pagenum: 264
authors: Edmund Lenihan; title: Act of Union
pagenum: 266
authors: Seamus Heaney; title: The Horned Women
pagenum: 267
authors: Lady Wilde; title: Ordinary Dragonfly Flicks
pagenum: 268
authors: Nuala Archer; title: The Gay Old Hag
pagenum: 269
authors: Anon; title: Bread
pagenum: 270
authors: Brendan Kennelly; title: The Shannon Mermaid
pagenum: 271
authors: Anon; title: The Song of Wandering Aengus
pagenum: 273
authors: W. B. Yeats; title: The Lure
pagenum: 274
authors: John Boyle O'Reilly; title: Purgation
pagenum: 274
authors: Deirdre Brennan; title: From Cathleen Ni Houlihan
pagenum: 276
authors: W. B. Yeats; title: To the Daughters of Erin
pagenum: 278
authors: Susan Mitchell; title: From Cathleen to Anorexia
pagenum: 279
authors: Edna Longley; title: From The Story of Eochaid's Sons
pagenum: 283
authors: translated by Standish O'Grady; title: The Beach
pagenum: 285
authors: Sara Berkeley; title: From Finnegans Wake
pagenum: 286
authors: James Joyce; title: From The Golden Apple
pagenum: 288
authors: Augusta Gregory; title: Sheela-na-Gig
pagenum: 290
authors: John Montague; title: Dreams
pagenum: 290
authors: Cecil Frances Alexander; title: Ireland Delineated
pagenum: 291
authors: Justice Luke Gernon; title: A Priestess of the Woods
pagenum: 292
authors: A. E.; title: From Aoibheall the Banshee
pagenum: 295
authors: Edmund Lenihan; title: Kundalini
pagenum: 297
authors: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill; label: 8
title: Practical Heroism; title: The Agricultural Irish Girl
pagenum: 301
authors: Anon; title: From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands
pagenum: 301
authors: Beatrice Grimshaw; title: From The Annals of Ballitore
pagenum: 305
authors: Mary Leadbeater; title: From My Cousin Justin
pagenum: 307
authors: Margaret Barrington; title: Cot Death
pagenum: 308
authors: Mary O'Donnell; title: From Juno and the Paycock
pagenum: 309
authors: Sean O'Casey; title: Unforgettable Meeting of Life and Art
pagenum: 311
authors: Mary Holland; title: From Care of the Emigrants
pagenum: 314
authors: Charlotte Grace O'Brien; title: In Fields I Hear Them Sing
pagenum: 316
authors: Jo Slade; title: From The Move to Crumlin
pagenum: 319
authors: Mrs. Kathleen Behan; title: From Joyriders
pagenum: 321
authors: Christina Reid; title: For D. W.
pagenum: 321
authors: Eva Bourke; title: From The Chapel Woman
pagenum: 322
authors: Alice Taylor; title: From Aunt Harriet
pagenum: 324
authors: Hubert Butler; title: From The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met
pagenum: 325
authors: Elizabeth Bowen; title: From Preface to Reliques of Ancient Irish Poetry
pagenum: 327
authors: Charlotte Brooke; title: From Constance Markievicz
pagenum: 329
authors: Anne Haverty; label: 9
title: Religion; title: Churching
pagenum: 335
authors: Catherine Byron; title: From The Midnight Court
pagenum: 336
authors: Brian Merriman; title: In That Garden of Paradise
pagenum: 337
authors: Anne Le Marquand Hartigan; title: From The Serpent and the Goddess
pagenum: 338
authors: Mary Condren; title: Litany to Our Lady
pagenum: 339
authors: Anon; title: Prayer to the Virgin
pagenum: 341
authors: Attributed to St Columchille; title: A Heretic's Pilgrimage
pagenum: 343
authors: Eva Gore-Booth; title: Cut the Cake
pagenum: 344
authors: Ruth Hooley; title: Unmarried Mothers
pagenum: 345
authors: Austin Clarke; title: From The Land of Cockaigne
pagenum: 345
authors: Anon; title: From The Irish Sisters of Charity Centenary Brochure (1959)
pagenum: 347; title: Taking the Veil
pagenum: 349
authors: Roz Cowman; title: Saint Brigid's Prayer
pagenum: 350
authors: Translated by Brendan Kennelly; title: From On Our Backs
pagenum: 351
authors: Rosita Sweetman; title: Bishop Casey and the Conflict of Public and Private Lives
pagenum: 353
authors: Nuala O Faolain; title: From Sunday Brings Sunday
pagenum: 357
authors: Mary Lavin; title: From The Great Hunger
pagenum: 359
authors: Patrick Kavanagh; title: Mother Mary Martin
pagenum: 360
authors: Art Byrne; Sean McMahon; title: A Prayer
pagenum: 361
authors: Translated by Giolla Brighde MacNamee; title: From No Mate for the Magpie
pagenum: 361
authors: Frances Molloy; title: From The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
pagenum: 363
authors: George Bernard Shaw; title: Underneath Our Skirts
pagenum: 365
authors: Katie Donovan; title: From For the Time Being
pagenum: 367
authors: Clairr O'Connor; title: The Twelve Apostlettes
pagenum: 368
authors: Brendan Kennelly; title: Lent
pagenum: 369
authors: W. R. Rodgers; title: The Irish Dancer
pagenum: 371
authors: Anon; label: 10
title: Women Alone; title: Mise Eire
pagenum: 375
authors: Eavan Boland; title: From The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
pagenum: 376
authors: Brian Moore; title: From The Real Charlotte
pagenum: 378
authors: Somerville and Ross; title: From Tea with Mrs Klein
pagenum: 380
authors: Ronit Lentin; title: From Wheels Within Wheels
pagenum: 383
authors: Dervla Murphy; title: Runaway
pagenum: 386
authors: Rhoda Coghill; title: She Is Far From the Land
pagenum: 387
authors: Thomas Moore; title: The Palatine Daughter Marries a Catholic
pagenum: 388
authors: Louise C. Callaghan; title: The Broken Step
pagenum: 389
authors: Aine Ní Ghlinn; title: Celebrating the Light of the Moon
pagenum: 390
authors: Jean O'Brien; title: From A Land Not Theirs
pagenum: 391
authors: David Marcus; title: Her Table Spread
pagenum: 393
authors: Elizabeth Bowen; title: Grania
pagenum: 395
authors: translated by Frank O'Connor; title: Lily
pagenum: 397
authors: Susan Connolly; title: Stanzas on Woman
pagenum: 398
authors: Oliver Goldsmith; title: From The Plough and the Stars
pagenum: 398
authors: Sean O'Casey; title: Let Him Go, Let Him Tarry
pagenum: 400
authors: Anon; title: Blinding - Lucy
pagenum: 401
authors: Linda Anderson; title: A Cry for Art
pagenum: 403
authors: O'Leary Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill; title: The Lament for Arthur Cleary
pagenum: 406
authors: Dermot Bolger; title: Poem IX
pagenum: 408
authors: Gormlaith; title: After Aughrim
pagenum: 409
authors: Emily Lawless; title: Middle of the Island
pagenum: 411
authors: Christy Moore and Nigel Rolfe; title: From Towards a Feminist Morality of Choice
pagenum: 411
authors: Ruth Riddick; title: Yuppie Considering Life in Her Loft Apartment
pagenum: 413
authors: Julie O'Callaghan; title: Ciara
pagenum: 414
authors: Sinéad Morrissey; title: No Vacancies
pagenum: 415
authors: Heather Brett; title: From Sea Legs
pagenum: 416
authors: Rosita Boland; title: Report of the Tribunal of Enquiry into the Kerry Babies Case
pagenum: 418; title: From Riders to the Sea
pagenum: 422
authors: J. M. Synge; label: 11
title: Talk; title: From Granuaile
pagenum: 429
authors: Anne Chambers; title: Juxtaposition
pagenum: 431
authors: Eithne Strong; title: The Love-Talker
pagenum: 431
authors: Ethna Carbery; title: The Curse
pagenum: 433
authors: J. M. Synge; title: Aphorism
pagenum: 433
authors: George Bernard Shaw; title: Killyburn Brae
pagenum: 433
authors: Anon; title: How O'Connell Won the Championship of Billingsgate
pagenum: 435
authors: Madden; title: The Gentleman Who Sneaked In
pagenum: 437
authors: Richard Kell; title: Women and Abortion in Republic of Ireland, 1992
pagenum: 438
authors: Ailbhe Smyth; title: From Tristram Shandy
pagenum: 441
authors: Laurence Sterne; title: Dicey Reilly
pagenum: 443
authors: Anon; title: Dialogue III: The Ladies at Their Tea
pagenum: 444
authors: Jonathan Swift; title: Letter to Michael Collins, 1921
pagenum: 446
authors: Kitty Kiernan; title: Misogynist
pagenum: 448
authors: Michael Harding; title: From The Recruiting Officer
pagenum: 450
authors: George Farquhar; title: From The Commitments
pagenum: 453
authors: Roddy Doyle; title: An Interview with Romulus and Remus
pagenum: 454
authors: Maireád Byrne; title: From Dancing at Lughnasa
pagenum: 455
authors: Brian Friel; title: From Leaves for the Burning
pagenum: 457
authors: Mervyn Wall; title: Neighbours
pagenum: 459
authors: Maura Dooley; title: From Low in the Dark
pagenum: 460
authors: Marina Carr; title: From The Importance of Being Earnest
pagenum: 462
authors: Oscar Wilde; title: From The Playboy of the Western World
pagenum: 463
authors: J. M. Synge; title: Two Letters to W. B. Yeats
pagenum: 464
authors: Maud Gonne; title: While You Are Talking
pagenum: 466
authors: Micheál O Siadhail; title: To Him Who Said, 'You Live Only for the World'
pagenum: 467
authors: Lady Morgan; title: I Deserve a Brandy and Port
pagenum: 468
authors: Evelyn Conlon; title: Letters from France, 1802
pagenum: 470
authors: Maria Edgeworth; title: The Names
pagenum: 472
authors: Brendan Kennelly; title: From The Real Charlotte
pagenum: 472
authors: Somerville and Ross; title: Let the Toast Pass
pagenum: 473
authors: Richard Brinsley Sheridan; label: 12
title: Time; title: I Shall Not Go to Heaven
pagenum: 477
authors: Helen Waddell; title: Immortality
pagenum: 478
authors: Susan Mitchell; title: The Old Woman of Beare
pagenum: 479
authors: translated by Brendan Kennelly; title: From The Birds of the Innocent Wood
pagenum: 481
authors: Deirdre Madden; title: Change
pagenum: 483
authors: Julie O'Callaghan; title: Stella's Birthday
pagenum: 484
authors: Jonathan Swift; title: Statement to Offspring
pagenum: 486
authors: Eithne Strong; title: A Leitrim Woman
pagenum: 487
authors: Lyle Donaghy; title: After Death
pagenum: 489
authors: Fanny Parnell; title: From Glass Slippers and Tough Bargains
pagenum: 490
authors: Maureen Gaffney; title: Optimism
pagenum: 492
authors: Blanaid Salkeld; title: From Out of My Head
pagenum: 493
authors: Trudy Hayes; title: From Very Like a Whale
pagenum: 495
authors: Val Mulkerns; title: The Irish Emigrant
pagenum: 497
authors: Helen Selina Blackwood; title: To Crinog
pagenum: 499
authors: translated by Kuno Meyer; title: Into Whiteness
pagenum: 501
authors: Philip Casey; title: An Old Woman of the Roads
pagenum: 502
authors: Padraic Colum; title: From The Awkward Girl
pagenum: 503
authors: Mary Rose Callaghan; title: A Woman is a Branchy Tree
pagenum: 506
authors: James Stephens; title: From A Belfast Woman
pagenum: 506
authors: Mary Beckett; title: Scene-Shifter Death
pagenum: 508
authors: Mary Devenport O'Neill; title: Notes on the Writers
pagenum: 509; title: Index of Writers
pagenum: 549