Women writers



In praise of Jennifer Johnston

Irish Times Blook Club: Novelist has chronicled the family across a century of troubled Irish history


In praise of Nuala Ní Chonchúir by Cathy Dillon

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’



In praise of Iris Murdoch, by Ian d’Alton

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
























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