The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fi

Studies of Irish nationalism have been primarily historical in scope and overwhelmingly male in content. Too often, the ‘shadow of the gunman’ has dominated

This collection presents international research on the work of Irish women writers at the turn of the twentieth century. These essays make a key contribution to

Based on original research with Irish women both at home and in England, this book explores how questions of mobility and stasis are recast along gender, class,

After a decade in which women writers have gradually been given more recognition in the study of Irish literature, this collection proposes a reappraisal of Iri