Welcome to the Irish Women’s Writing (1880-1920) Network
Our network facilitates international and interdisciplinary connections and exchanges between researchers recovering and studying the lives and work of Irish women writers, artists, historians, scientists and more.
To join the network click here
Are you a postgrad working in the area? Check out our Postgraduate Forum.
Send us updates for the News and Events Page: notifications of forthcoming publications, conferences and other events are welcome. Contribute a blog: tell us about your research, recent conferences attended, or new projects.
Read all about our September 2021 Virtual Symposium here.
Sign up for our quarterly email here.
Check out our archives, bibliography, and our resources for more.
- Teaching Irish Women’s Writing AbroadMaureen O’Connor There are always new audiences for Irish women’s writing of the fin de siècle period, as I discovered when I recently spent six months at the University of Würzburg in Germany, as the Travelling Visiting Professor of Irish Studies, a position funded…
- Writing the Aran Islands: The Curious Case of Nurse B. N. HeddermanTheo Joy Campbell District Nurse B. N. Hedderman’s 1917 memoir, Glimpses of my Life in Aran, was a puzzle I needed to solve.[i] I first stumbled upon it while researching J. M. Synge and his famous 1903 travelogue The Aran Islands. After reading Glimpses,…
- Women Writers of the Catholic Literary Revival in England and Ireland: An Argument for RevaluationJulia Meszaros The large-scale socio-cultural and political shifts of the late nineteenth century are reflected in the era’s vibrant literary culture. In Britain and Ireland, the years between 1860 and 1960 saw a particularly dynamic literary resurgence among Catholic writers. Catholic emancipation, marked by…
