This innovative book reassess the place of Maria Edgeworth within the Irish literary canon by
illuminating the connections between her views on gender and her construction of Ireland …

The very different histories of the North and South are reflected in their literature. While
women in the Republic of Ireland have tended to write about social issuessexism, crime …

What is 'Irish Studies' now? Is it, in fact, just a shorthand term for the interdisciplinary/
intercultural study of 'the Irish'and 'Irishness', or is it a paradigm that has become exclusively …

As publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political
campaigners against censorship and for intellectual freedom, a radical group of twentieth …

What difference has theory made to the study of Irish culture? A turn towards theory, initially
the product of the vigorous efforts of dedicated individuals and groups like Seamus Deane …

Emily Lawless is one of the most important of Ireland's forgotten women writers. From a
Protestant ascendancy background, she combined nationalist feelings with unionist …

Kavanagh was born within three decades of the onset of the French Revolution, so it is not
surprising that, with her French education and her interest in women's lives, she chose to …

Blanaid Salkeld was an Irish poet, essayist, dramatist, translator, actress, and publisher who
lived and worked between 1880 and 1959.2 She was an enterprising and resourceful …

This thesis explores the relationship between fin-de-siècle anti-emigration propaganda and
fiction written by upper middle-class Irish women. Specifically, it examines the ways in which …

M A M C, Matilda Tone,“Eva,”“Mary,”“Speranza,” Anna and Fanny
Parnell, Maud Gonne, Constance Markiewicz: these names, spanning the late eighteenth …