Böcker av Mary O'Dowd

Nine writers trace the public and private lives of nine sets of sisters. Artists, publishers, writers, educationalists, philanthropists, revolutionaries, suffragists - thinkers all. Independent women with hopes and ideals who overcame barriers, even within their own families, to their participation in public life. Their stories have often been overlooked by the mainstream historical record. These essays take readers on a journey through the centuries from the 1600s to the turbulent years of the independence struggle in 1900s Ireland and uncover the influence, support and rivalries of family. Nualaidh, Mire and Mairghrad DomhnaillAlice, Sara, Lettice, Joan, Katherine, Dorothy and Mary BoyleKatherine, Jane and Mary ConynghamDeborah, Margaret, Mary and Sarah ShackletonLady Sydney Morgan and Lady Olivia ClarkeAnna and Fanny ParnellConstance and Eva Gore-BoothSusan and Elizabeth YeatsHanna, Margaret, Mary and Kathleen Sheehy

This volume presents the results of original research into women's lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of considerable change in Ireland as English colonisation, religious reform and urbanisation transformed society on the island.