Changing the Times : Irish women journalists 1969-1981 / edited by Elgy Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gillespie, Elgy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Times, Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland).

Irish times (Dublin, Ireland : 1874).

Journalism--Ireland.

Journalism.

Women journalists--Ireland--Biography.

Women journalists.

Women journalists--Ireland--History.

History.

Ireland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

250 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Lilliput Press, 2003.

Summary:

Changing the Times showcases the best of this writing, by Maeve Binchy, Mary Leland, Gabrielle Williams, Geraldine Kennedy, Christina Murphy, Maev Kennedy, Caroline Walsh, Theodora FitzGibbon, Renagh Holohan, Mary Cummins, Nell McCafferty, Elgy Gillespie and others. Issues of the day are articulated and explored: pregnancy, fashion, first loves, sexuality, a burgeoning feminism, an imploding Catholic Church, an exploding North. Nell McCafferty profiles a young Ian Paisley, visits New York, and talks to the mother of a girl tarred and feathered in Derry; Maeve Binchy interviews Samuel Beckett and Iris Murdoch; Renagh Holohan describes being caught in an explosion in Belfast; Caroline Walsh meets Seamus Heaney and Edna O'Brien; Elgy Gillespie encounters Muhammad Ali, Tyrone Guthrie and Robert Lowell. As the mirror of a confident young nation, and a window onto one of the most eventful decades in recent Irish history, Changing the Times grants these writings the afterlife they deserve, and offers the reader an enriching view of the past.

Contents:

Introduction: Coming of Age with a Vengeance / Mary Maher 11

Chapter 1 First Times

Baby Blue: My First Best Dress / Maeve Binchy 15

First Dance / Nell McCafferty 18

All Our Easterdays: New Dresses, Picnics, and a Retreat / Mary Cummins 20

Two Marys Go to the Dance / Mary Leland 22

First Love: Teenage Idol / Christina Murphy 26

All Write: Portrait of the Artist as a Suffering Daughter / Maev Kennedy 29

Women Seek Real Quality / Elgy Gillespie 32

A Day I Spent with Paisley / Nell McCafferty 36

Return to Bowen's Court / Mary Leland 40

First Ink: Visiting Tony Guthrie / Elgy Gillespie 43

Chapter 2 End of an Era

How's the Ms? / Mary Maher 50

My Mother's Money / Nell McCafferty 53

Night of the Killer Cabbage / Mary Maher 55

Liberation Is a State of Mind / Theodora FitzGibbon 57

Our Compliments to the Cook / Maeve Binchy 59

How Much Mothering? Noel Browne's View / Mary Maher 64

A Nurse at the Rotunda / Mary Cummins 67

Baby Factories / Mary Maher 71

What's in a Bag? / Gabrielle Williams 73

All Our Yesterdays: Coat Tales / Nell McCafferty 75

The Timeless Little Black Dress / Gabrielle Williams 77

What Will the Well-Dressed Man Wear during 1974? / Nell McCafferty 79

Muhammad Ali / Elgy Gillespie 82

Dr Lucey: A Rock against Change / Mary Leland 90

Mosley Foresees a United Ireland within the European Community / Eileen O'Brien 95

Chapter 3 Out and Proud

The Christmas Rush: Once More with Feeling / Mary Cummins 101

On the Road Again / Elgy Gillespie 104

Mugged, Raped, and Killed / Nell McCafferty 108

First Encounter with a Leper / Geraldine Kennedy 113

Midnight Cowgirl: New York on a J-1 Visa / Elgy Gillespie 116

Seamus Heaney: "A situation both gross and delicate..." / Caroline Walsh 126

Robert Lowell in Kilkenny / Elgy Gillespie 132

Chapter 4 Our Bodies, Ourselves

Father Marx and Abortion / Mary Leland 142

Surveying the Married Woman / Mary Maher 145

Bachelor Girl or Sour Spinster? / Christina Murphy 147

The Contraceptive Debate: Ending or Beginning? / Christina Murphy 150

The Forty Foot Campaign: Two Views / Rosine Auberting, Christina Murphy 153

In Defence of Eroticism / Mary Leland 156

Will Unmarried Fathers Please Stand Up? / Elgy Gillespie 160

Suitable for Motherhood? / Mary Cummins 163

My So-Called "Condition" / Christina Murphy 166

The Critics and Edna O'Brien: Envy, Envy, Envy / Caroline Walsh 174

Here's To You! Senator Robinson / Christina Murphy 177

Shy Miss Murdoch Faces the BallyHoo / Maeve Binchy 182

Chapter 5 The North Erupts

Bernadette Devlin Expecting Baby in Autumn / Mary Cummins 187

No Surrender: So Far, So Tribal / Elgy Gillespie 192

Second Girl Engaged to Soldier Is Tarred in Bogside / Anon. 195

We're All Terrorists Now: "Jesus Christ Himself Couldn't Stick It" / Nell McCafferty 197

Three Men Die on Barricade: Troops Conduct Described / Nell McCafferty 203

Derry Numbed and Restless in Aftermath of Killings / Nell McCafferty 205

Visitor to Long Kesh / Mary Cummins 207

Explosion Wrecks Belfast Station: Night of the Big Bangs / Renagh Holohan 213

Aces that Whitelaw Can Play in Direct Rule / Mary Holland 217

Second Thoughts on Sunningdale / Mary Holland 221

Gospel of Two Union Jacks on High / Elgy Gillespie 223

Gerry "Bloomsday" Davis: "I'll Show Them!" / Rose Doyle 228

The Toughest Not Only Survive but Win / Renagh Holohan 232

Beckett Finally Gets Down to Work as the Actors Take a Break / Maeve Binchy 234.

ISBN:

1843510189

OCLC:

56913349