Emerging Voices 2: Shirley-Anne Godfrey
Shirley-Anne Godfrey is an emerging Irish playwright, currently researching how drama and theatre can be used as methodologies in rehabilitating the literary legacies of Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) and Frances Browne (1816-1879) for her PhD at NUI Galway. Funded by the Irish Research Council,…
Rosa Mulholland republished on the centenary of her death
James H. Murphy Rosa Mulholland, Lady Gilbert (1841-1921), died in the spring of 1921. Spring 2021, the centenary of her death, marks the publication of Rosa Mulholland: Feminist, Victorian, Catholic and Patriot, published by Edward Everett Root and edited by James H. Murphy. This reader…
Emerging Voices 1: Nora Moroney
Nora Moroney has a research specialism in Irish literary cultures and their influence on and connection with the late-Victorian British periodical press. Her publications to date include articles on Irish women journalists in the Victorian Periodicals Review, focusing particularly on the writings of Alice Stopford Green…
From Bushy Park to Elsinore: Noëlle Ffrench Davies
Mary Turley-McGrath In January 1924, a young Irish woman arrived in Denmark to take up her position as a lecturer in the International People’s College in Elsinore. Born into a wealthy farming background in Co. Roscommon, she could have opted for a leisurely life….
Research Pioneers 13: Kathryn Laing
Kathryn Laing has a career-long research expertise in women’s writing and Irish women’s writing in particular. Her wide-ranging publications focus on the works of Hannah Lynch, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, and Edna O’Brien. Together with Faith Binckes, she’s co-written the study Hannah Lynch, 1859-1904:…
Away with the Fairies: Irish Folklore and Fin-De-Siècle Motherhood in Katharine Tynan’s Ballads and Lyrics (1891)
Sadbh Kellett, University of St. Andrews The Irish writer Katharine Tynan was remarkable in her personal and literary embodiment of the ‘New Woman’. An educated member of Dublin’s Catholic middle-class, Tynan’s formidable literary career resulted in her financial independence, which she maintained alongside her…
Rockmahon, Blackrock Co. Cork: Family home of Novelist and Short Story writer Ethel Colburn Mayne (1865-1941)
Elke D’hoker, University of Leuven This is Rockmahon[i], one of the original nineteenth-century properties along Castle Road in Blackrock, Cork. Built around 1820, the house is adjacent to the river Lee. It faces north towards the docks and the Tivoli hills and east towards…
Chambers’s Journal and Irish Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle: The Case of Magdalen Rock
Alexis Easley, University of St. Thomas From its founding in 1832, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal strove to reach a national audience. This meant employing a corps of writers who could speak to both national and regional concerns. As David Masson noted in 1851, the Chambers…
Hope and Hunger in a Stricken Land: Jane Wilde and the Great Hunger
Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University This is an extract from Professor Christine Kinealy’s article ‘Hope and Hunger in a Stricken Land: the Wilde Family and the Great Hunger’ in Reading Ireland, issue 12, edited by Adrienne Leavy. Speranza…
The Unravelling of Old Certainties: Elizabeth Bowen and the Search for Stability in Times of Flux
Orlaith Darling, Trinity College Dublin In the U.S. post-script to The Demon Lover and Other Stories (1945), Elizabeth Bowen expresses the human yearning for security-in-placement: The search for indestructible landmarks in a destructible world led many down strange paths […] The violent destruction of…
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CFP: Retro & Hetero with the Housewife of the Year (1968-1995). Come join me, Trish McTighe and Gemma Carney for a symposium that will explore the Housewife of the Year contest and the evolving role of women in the domestic sphere. 26 &27 May at QUB: https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/events/CriticalDomesticitiesSymposiumRetroHeterowiththeHousewifeoftheYear1968-1995CFP.html
Today is #worldtheatreday2023🎠Here’s a selection of drama and theatre books from our collection. There are also some great theatrical performances available to watch on Drama Online https://libraryproxy.mic.ul.ie/login?url=https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/
This event is sure to be of interest to members.
Inaugural symposium to shine a light on the Yeats Sisters
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