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Women of war

Women Writing War includes collaborations between sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Countess Markievicz.
Women Writing War includes collaborations between sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Countess Markievicz. Women Writing War includes collaborations between sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Countess Markievicz.

WOMEN'S literary expressions of war have long been neglected in Irish scholarship, but the latest publication from UCD Press seeks to redress this imbalance.

Edited by Tina O'Toole, Gillian McIntosh and Muireann O'Cinneide, Women Writing War: Ireland 1880­–1922 reveals many of these 'forgotten' women as culturally active and deeply invested in the political and military struggles of those volatile times.

From the land wars and Boer Wars to the First World War, Easter Rising, War of Independence and Civil War, the women considered in this provocative volume on the relationship between women and conflict offer an experiential representation of their turbulent times.

With a preface by historian Margaret Ward, Women Writing War includes the political rhetoric and experiences of Anna Parnell and Anne Blunt during the Land War, Emily Lawless's Boer War diary, eye-witness accounts of 1916, Winifred Letts' First World War poetry, the cultural nationalism of northern Protestant 'New Women' of the Glens of Antrim, Irish language activism in and beyond the Gaelic League, as well as the dramatic collaboration of sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Countess Markievicz.

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