Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2004 - 348 páginas
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 forget: 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, Dublin
Wisconsin edition is for sale only in the U.S.A., it's territories and dependencies, and Canada.

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INTRODUCTION
9
Marguerite Countess of Blessington
24
Marie Louise Louison OMorphi
59
Sarah Curran
73
Kitty Kiernan
88
WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINE
107
Dr Kathleen Lynn
121
Veronica Guerin
131
Louie Bennett
201
SAINTS AND SINNERS
214
Lady Betty
226
Queen Maeve of Connacht
239
Iníon Dubh
252
Lola Montez
268
Beatrice Grimshaw
284
George Anne Bellamy
306

AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
135
Mary Ann McCracken
150
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
166
Gormlaith
179
Siobhán McKenna
319
Grace Gifford
332
BIBLIOGRAPHY
345
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