Our series celebrating 50 years of women’s writing surveys the fiction, poetry and nonfiction of the early 1980s
Women writers
Follow-up to much-admired debut Stay with Me focuses on characters from opposite sides of the track
Our series celebrating 50 years of women’s writing surveys the fiction, poetry and nonfiction of the second half of the 1970s
These are the authors who exposed the patriarchal bias in English literature in the 1970s
Irish Times Blook Club: Novelist has chronicled the family across a century of troubled Irish history
The Irish language poet is famously private, but her work is anything but witholding, full of love and laughter, amazement and hope
Irish women writers: ‘A skilled wordsmith capable of wielding an inked scalpel to delightful and dastardly effect’
Irish Women Writers: ‘Ní Chonchúir doesn’t shrink from tackling life’s pain, compromises and savagery, but her rich, original imagery captures its sensual delights also’
Irish Women Writers: one of the great writers in English, her relationship as a southern Protestant exile with the land of her birth, as explored in both her fiction and personal life, was conflicted but fascinating
The Women Writers’ Club hung out in Robert’s Cafe and Jammet’s, not McDaid’s or the Palace Bar, but this radical group fostered a distinctive, modern and decidedly female literary canon
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘she conveys a poetic, often elegiac, sense of place and portrays characters with richness and depth’
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘she challenges stereotypical representations of femininity and interrogates nationalist tropes of Ireland as woman’
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘she gave voice to the preoccupations of a large section of the Irish-American community’
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘Rather than constantly dealing with the same material and the same human dilemmas, she seeks out new horizons’
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