Re-examining Wilde in The Woman’s World
Eleanor Fitzsimons How to cite: Fitzsimons, E. (2024) ‘Re-examining Wilde in The Woman’s World’, IWWN Blog, date of posted entry, Available at https://irishwomenswritingnetwork.com/blog/ (Accessed date) ‘Society began to take Oscar Wilde seriously when he became editor of the Woman’s World.’ Anna de Brémont in Oscar Wilde and His Mother…
Mary Banim and Goldsmith’s Country
Dr Geraldine Brassil How to cite: Brassil, G (2024) ‘Mary Banim and Goldsmith’s Country’, IWWN Blog, date of posted entry, Available at https://irishwomenswritingnetwork.com/blog/ (Accessed date) Kilkenny brothers and writing partners John (1798-1842) and Michael (1796-1874) Banim are described by James H. Murphy as ‘important Catholic writers.’[1] However,…
Online Saturday Writing Group
The Irish Women’s Writing Network (1880-1920) has recently started a virtual writing group which takes places one Saturday a month. This writing group provides a virtual space for like-minded researchers and creative areas with an interest in Irish women’s writing to set some individual…
Teaching Irish Women’s Writing Abroad
Maureen 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. Hedderman
Theo 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 Revaluation
Julia 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…
WINIFRED M. LETTS (1882-1972): The Writer I Knew
Bairbre O’Hogan My interest in the poet, novelist, dramatist and superb children’s writer, Winifred M. Letts, is more of a personal interest than an academic one. I would like her to be rediscovered for herself – not just to claim a stake in literary…
With Hannah Lynch in Tinos
Iliana Theodoropoulou “here is at last forgetfulness of sorrow and unrest”[1] Hannah Lynch visited Greece twice in her relatively short life. Her Greek island was Tinos. Her first journey there was a long stay of two years, from September (probably) 1885 to September 1887. …
Emerging Voices 6: Éadaoin Regan
Éadaoin Regan is currently in the final year of her PhD in the School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork. Her thesis, A method to the madness?: Representations of psychological disorder in Irish women’s fiction 1870-1914, employs feminist psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory…
Daisy Bates: ‘’Saviour of the Aborigines’
Ann Moroney The Irish writer Daisy Bates (1859- 1951), successful and infamous in equal measure in her time, left a journalistic legacy that remains virtually unknown today. Born in Tipperary in 1859 but residing for the majority of her life in the Australian outback,…
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