Posted on June 18, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
In 2011, Elke D’hoker co-edited a ground-breaking collection of essays entitled Irish Women Writers: New Critical Perspectives (Peter Lang). Seminal in the field, this work helped to shape the critical framework of Irish women’s writing and acted to lead the way for future researchers….
Category: Network Blog, Research Pioneers Tags: publishing, Research Pioneers, short stories
Posted on June 15, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
Kathleen Williams, Network Team In 2016 staff at the John J. Burns Library at Boston College had opportunity to review a large collection of materials related to Irish women during the revolutionary period in Ireland that had been assembled by collector Loretta Clarke Murray. …
Category: Network Blog Tags: Annie MP Smithson, archives, civil war, Letters
Posted on June 8, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
Edited by Kathryn Laing and Sinéad Mooney Introduction: “A Palpable Energy” Kathryn Laing and Sinéad Mooney Silenced female voices, the gendered gaps and absences in archives and literary histories, and silence as theme and technique, all feature in many of the essays included in…
Category: Network Blog Tags: Irish Women Writers, Kathryn Laing, publications, Sinead Mooney
Posted on May 27, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
Dr Paul O’Brien (MIC, Limerick) Lady Virginia Sandars (17 March 1828 – 26 January 1922) Lady Virginia Frances Zerlina Taylour was the youngest daughter of Thomas Taylour, the 2nd Marquess of Headfort and Olivia Stevenson. A member of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, Virginia lived in…
Category: Network Blog Tags: Argosy, biography, Oscar Wilde, spectator, virginia sandars, writers
Posted on May 6, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
David Clare, Fiona McDonagh and Justine Nakase are in the final stages of a project that promises to be a milestone in scholarship on women’s contribution to Irish theatre. They are co-editing the weighty two-volume collection The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights (1716-2016), forthcoming…
Category: Network Blog, Research Pioneers Tags: publishing, Research Pioneers, Theatre
Posted on April 27, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
We asked members to share their experiences of life in lockdown. In these strange times, we wonder, how quarantine is impacting our lives as scholars, students, and academics. Working from home is now the reality for so many globally. New work and research practices…
Category: Network Blog Tags: archives, community, coronavirus, Covid19, ISOLATION, PhD Research, Research
Posted on April 14, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
Margaret Kelleher’s first monograph on The Feminization of Famine and her co-edited volume on Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, both published in 1997, had gender questions at the very heart of her research. Her seminal work interrogated questions of tradition and canonicity in such…
Category: Network Blog, Research Pioneers Tags: digital humanities, historiography, margaret kelleher, Research Pioneers
Posted on March 31, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
The publication in 2002 of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Women’s Writing and Traditions volumes 4 and 5 was a watershed moment in Irish literary history. Gerardine Meaney was among the principal co-editors of this endeavour, which evolved in response to the…
Category: Network Blog, Research Pioneers Tags: digital humanities, gerardine meaney, Research Pioneers
Posted on February 17, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
Lucy Collins’ Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870-1970, published by Liverpool University Press in 2012, has made a crucial intervention in the field of Irish women’s literary history. As one reviewer described it, it reveals ‘a hitherto hidden history of poetry’…
Category: Network Blog, Research Pioneers Tags: anthology, editing, Lucy Collins, poetry, publishing, Research Pioneers
Posted on January 20, 2020 by Dr Deirdre Flynn
Heidi Hansson’s edited collection New Contexts: Re-Framing Nineteenth-Century Irish Women’s Writing (2007) has been praised by reviewers for its call for the field of literary studies to be augmented and for ‘addressing women’s literature as a “distinct tradition”’. Together with her monograph Emily Lawless…
Category: Network Blog, Research Pioneers Tags: Emily Lawless, Heidi Hansson, publishing, Research, Research Pioneers
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