Women writing war : Ireland 1880-1922 / edited by Tina O'Toole, Gillian McIntosh and Muireann O'Cinnéide.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Toole, Tina, editor.

McIntosh, Gillian, editor.

Ó'Cinnéide, Muireann, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and literature--Ireland.

War and literature.

Women authors, Irish.

Ireland--Literatures--19th century--History and criticism.

Ireland.

Ireland--Literatures--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Literatures.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin, Ireland : University College Dublin Press, 2016.

Summary:

Women's literary expressions of war have long been neglected and at times forgotten in Irish scholarship. This book brings many of these forgotten women, and their writings from the 1880-1922 period, to the fore. The women themselves are revealed as active cultural producers and agents, deeply invested in the political and military struggles of their day. From the Land Wars to the Boer Wars, from the First World War to the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, the diverse range of topics in this thought-provoking volume explore the relationship between women and conflict. -- Publisher description

Contents:

Introduction / Tina O'Toole, Gillian McIntosh, Muireann O'Cinnéide

A 'crust to share with you': the rhetoric of the Ladies' Land League's British campaign, 1881-2 / Diane Urquhart

Anne Blunt, 'Arabi Pasha' and the Irish Land Wars, 1880-8 / Muireann O'Cinnéide

Battles in the garden: Emily Lawless's A Garden Diary, 1899-1900 and the Boer War / Heidi Hansson

Winifred Letts and the Great War: a poetics of witness / Lucy Collins

The new women of the glens: writers and revolutionaries / Tina O'Toole

Eva Gore-Booth's queer art of war / Maureen O'Connor

Agnes O'Farrelly's politics and poetry, 1918-27 / Ríona Nic Congáil

Uncomfortable bodies in women's accounts of 1916 / Lucy McDiarmid

'If no one wanted to remember': Margaret Kelly and the Lost Battalion / Jody Allen Randolph

Writing the rising: Lia Mills on Fallen (2014) / Lia Mills

Extract from Fallen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781910820117

1910820113

OCLC:

957385761

Publisher Number:

99973528665