An edition of Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present
(1995)
Ireland's women
writings past and present
by A. Norman Jeffares
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Modern Irish women are outspoken on the issues that rouse their passion - love and sex, marriage and divorce, abortion and adoption. In this they revert to earlier times, earlier ways, though there have always been rebels against whatever was the contemporary conformity. This book celebrates the vast range of their thought and activity, their spirituality and materialism.
The women who appear in these pages are both well-known and unknown, real and invented. They include, for instance, the fiery Elizabeth Fitzgerald who defended her castle so successfully, and Granuaile, the pirate queen from Galway.
The editors have drawn freely upon translations of the mythological tales and later Irish poems, upon letters, biographies, and newspapers as well as prose and poetry, plays, recordings and songs, in order to present a multilayered view of a subject never before treated in this way.
Ireland's Women includes the writings of Julia O'Faolain, Edna O'Brien, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, William Trevor, and many others - a superbly sympathetic selection that conveys fresh insights into the varied and vital experience of Irish women.
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Table of Contents
Introductions
Page xvii
1.
Bodies
Katie-Ellen Takes on the World
Page 3
From Ulysses
Page 4
Blodewedd
Page 6
Abortion
Page 7
Content and Tasteful
Page 9
The Lady's Dressing-Room
Page 10
From The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Page 14
Curves
Page 15
A Vision
Page 16
The Redemptorist
Page 17
From Rosa Amorosa
Page 18
It Is My Belief That Armagh Is a Feminist Issue
Page 19
From Journal of a Lady of Fashion
Page 22
Coming Out
Page 23
Lay Your Arms Aside
Page 25
From Lisa: The Story of an Irish Drug Addict
Page 26
From The Newton Letter
Page 27
From Report on the Kilkenny Incest Case
Page 28
From Night
Page 30
From Possibilities
Page 31
Potato Cakes
Page 32
From Attracta
Page 33
From Dress in Ireland
Page 35
From Stir Fry
Page 36
From Acts of Subversion
Page 38
2.
Girly Years
From Good Behaviour
Page 43
From The Long Way Home
Page 44
From Miss Makebelieve of Dublin
Page 45
From Hush-a-Bye Baby
Page 48
From There's Something About a Convent Girl
Page 53
From Farewell to Youth
Page 54
From The Homesick Garden
Page 56
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl
Page 58
Stella To Dr Swift
Page 60
From The Cloven Rock
Page 62
From All for Hecuba
Page 64
From Sisters by Rite
Page 67
From Roz, Danny, Henry and Mum
Page 68
From Orange Horses
Page 69
From Seventy Years Young
Page 70
From The Price of My Soul
Page 73
From The Bridge
Page 75
Going to the Gaiety
Page 76
From Daisy Chain War
Page 77
From A Lady's Child
Page 79
Golden Stockings
Page 82
3.
Love
From The Playboy of the Western World
Page 85
Hate Goes Just as Far as Love
Page 87
Reconciliation
Page 88
The Coolun
Page 89
Afterlove
Page 90
From On Our Backs
Page 91
From Woodbrook
Page 92
From Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert 1170-1806
Page 94
From Keynotes
Page 95
Men and Women
Page 96
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Page 97
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
Page 98
The Spinning Wheel
Page 98
From The Crock of Gold
Page 100
I Shall Not Die for Thee
Page 101
By Design
Page 102
Dear Dark Head
Page 103
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
Page 104
The Story of Sarah Curran
Page 105
Donall Oge: Grief of a Girl's Heart
Page 107
[I Would Like My Love to Die]
Page 109
From Cal
Page 109
From Ellen
Page 111
The Death of Aillil
Page 113
Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers
Page 114
4.
Marriage and Family
Pillow Talk
Page 117
The Pattern
Page 119
A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage
Page 122
Charlotte's Delivery
Page 125
From Elizabeth Fitzgerald
Page 126
Terrorist's Wife
Page 127
From Happy Days
Page 128
Silence
Page 130
The Red-haired Man's Wife
Page 131
The Snoring Bedmate
Page 133
Prayer for a Little Child
Page 135
From Home Before Night
Page 136
Devoted Mothers
Page 137
From Sisters
Page 137
From The Book of Irish Curses
Page 138
From Amongst Women
Page 139
From Stranger in Aran
Page 141
From The Dupe
Page 142
From Castle Rackrent
Page 145
The Mother's Lament at the Slaughter of the Innocents
Page 147
From The Excursion
Page 149
Her Sister
Page 150
From A Drama in Muslin
Page 151
The Hero's Sleep
Page 156
The Family Breaks Up
Page 157
Any Woman
Page 159
The Bit O' Strange
Page 163
A Learned Mistress
Page 167
From Letters of an Irish Parish Priest
Page 168
From No Country for Young Men
Page 169
From The 'Act of Trust' in a Middle-Irish Story
Page 171
From Memoirs of Mrs Letitia Pilkington
Page 172
From December Bride
Page 173
Deirdre
Page 175
From Thine in Storm and Calm
Page 175
From The History of Betty Ireland
Page 176
From Mary Lavelle
Page 178
From The Invisible Worm
Page 180
From The Faithless Wife
Page 182
From The Woman's Daughter
Page 185
From Dora
Page 187
From A Time to Love
Page 188
From Encounter
Page 191
From Eclipsed
Page 192
From The Portable Virgin
Page 194
6.
Money and Power
Pep-Talk to Poets from Their Sales Manager
Page 197
Two Letters
Page 198
The Constitution and the Role of Women
Page 200
From Directions to the Waiting-Maid
Page 202
From In View of the Circumstances
Page 203
From The Red and the Green
Page 205
From Wanderjahre
Page 207
From The Factory Girls
Page 208
Spindle and Shuttle
Page 211
From Across the Bitter Sea
Page 214
From The Plough and the Stars
Page 216
Prostitution and Rescue Work in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Page 217
From Edna O'Brien Interview
Page 218
Biddy Mulligan
Page 219
Some People Know What It Is Like
Page 220
From Workhouses and Irish Female Paupers
Page 221
From Women and Poverty
Page 223
Songs of Peace
Page 225
From The Flowering
Page 227
From Women and Madness
Page 228
From Mr Brennan's Heaven
Page 230
From The Feminine Animal
Page 231
From Irish Women and Property in the Sixteenth Century
Page 233
From The Hamster Wheel
Page 234
From On Our Backs
Page 236
The Woman of Three Cows
Page 237
From Women in Gaelic Society
Page 239
From A Kind of Scar
Page 241
Those People
Page 242
From The Women Who Won
Page 243
Career Girl
Page 244
From Community Women's Action
Page 245
Them's Your Mother's Pills
Page 247
From To Be a Pilgrim
Page 249
From A Great Day for the Women of Ireland
Page 251
From The Inaugural Speech
Page 253
7.
Shapechangers
From The War for the Bull of Cuailgne
Page 259
Pygmalion's Image
Page 263
From Alice Kyteler
Page 264
Act of Union
Page 266
The Horned Women
Page 267
Ordinary Dragonfly Flicks
Page 268
The Gay Old Hag
Page 269
Bread
Page 270
The Shannon Mermaid
Page 271
The Song of Wandering Aengus
Page 273
The Lure
Page 274
Purgation
Page 274
From Cathleen Ni Houlihan
Page 276
To the Daughters of Erin
Page 278
From Cathleen to Anorexia
Page 279
From The Story of Eochaid's Sons
Page 283
The Beach
Page 285
From Finnegans Wake
Page 286
From The Golden Apple
Page 288
Sheela-na-Gig
Page 290
Dreams
Page 290
Ireland Delineated
Page 291
A Priestess of the Woods
Page 292
From Aoibheall the Banshee
Page 295
Kundalini
Page 297
8.
Practical Heroism
The Agricultural Irish Girl
Page 301
From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands
Page 301
From The Annals of Ballitore
Page 305
From My Cousin Justin
Page 307
Cot Death
Page 308
From Juno and the Paycock
Page 309
Unforgettable Meeting of Life and Art
Page 311
From Care of the Emigrants
Page 314
In Fields I Hear Them Sing
Page 316
From The Move to Crumlin
Page 319
From Joyriders
Page 321
For D. W.
Page 321
From The Chapel Woman
Page 322
From Aunt Harriet
Page 324
From The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met
Page 325
From Preface to Reliques of Ancient Irish Poetry
Page 327
From Constance Markievicz
Page 329
9.
Religion
Churching
Page 335
From The Midnight Court
Page 336
In That Garden of Paradise
Page 337
From The Serpent and the Goddess
Page 338
Litany to Our Lady
Page 339
Prayer to the Virgin
Page 341
A Heretic's Pilgrimage
Page 343
Cut the Cake
Page 344
Unmarried Mothers
Page 345
From The Land of Cockaigne
Page 345
From The Irish Sisters of Charity Centenary Brochure (1959)
Page 347
Taking the Veil
Page 349
Saint Brigid's Prayer
Page 350
From On Our Backs
Page 351
Bishop Casey and the Conflict of Public and Private Lives
Page 353
From Sunday Brings Sunday
Page 357
From The Great Hunger
Page 359
Mother Mary Martin
Page 360
A Prayer
Page 361
From No Mate for the Magpie
Page 361
From The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
Page 363
Underneath Our Skirts
Page 365
From For the Time Being
Page 367
The Twelve Apostlettes
Page 368
Lent
Page 369
The Irish Dancer
Page 371
10.
Women Alone
Mise Eire
Page 375
From The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Page 376
From The Real Charlotte
Page 378
From Tea with Mrs Klein
Page 380
From Wheels Within Wheels
Page 383
Runaway
Page 386
She is Far From the Land
Page 387
The Palatine Daughter Marries a Catholic
Page 388
The Broken Step
Page 389
Celebrating the Light of the Moon
Page 390
From A Land Not Theirs
Page 391
From Her Table Spread
Page 393
Grania
Page 395
Lily
Page 397
Stanzas on Woman
Page 398
From The Plough and the Stars
Page 398
Let Him Go, Let Him Tarry
Page 400
Blinding - Lucy
Page 401
From A Cry for Art
Page 403
From The Lament for Arthur Cleary
Page 406
Poem IX
Page 408
After Aughrim
Page 409
Middle of the Island
Page 411
From Towards a Feminist Morality of Choice
Page 411
Yuppie Considering Life in Her Loft Apartment
Page 413
Ciara
Page 414
No Vacancies
Page 415
From Sea Legs
Page 416
From Report of the Tribunal of Enquiry into the Kerry Babies Case
Page 418
From Riders to the Sea
Page 422
11.
Talk
From Granuaile
Page 429
Juxtaposition
Page 431
The Love-Talker
Page 431
The Curse
Page 433
Aphorism
Page 433
Killyburn Brae
Page 433
How O'Connell Won the Championship of Billingsgate
Page 435
The Gentleman Who Sneaked In
Page 437
Women and Abortion in Republic of Ireland, 1992
Page 438
From Tristram Shandy
Page 441
Dicey Reilly
Page 443
Dialogue III: The Ladies at Their Tea
Page 444
Letter to Michael Collins, 1921
Page 446
From Misogynist
Page 448
From The Recruiting Officer
Page 450
From The Commitments
Page 453
An Interview with Romulus and Remus
Page 454
From Dancing at Lughnasa
Page 455
From Leaves for the Burning
Page 457
Neighbours
Page 459
From Low in the Dark
Page 460
From The Importance of Being Earnest
Page 462
From The Playboy of the Western World
Page 463
Two Letters to W. B. Yeats
Page 464
While You Are Talking
Page 466
To Him Who Said, 'You Live Only for the World'
Page 467
I Deserve a Brandy and Port
Page 468
Letters from France, 1802
Page 470
The Names
Page 472
From The Real Charlotte
Page 472
Let the Toast Pass
Page 473
12.
Time
I Shall Not Go to Heaven
Page 477
Immortality
Page 478
The Old Woman of Beare
Page 479
From The Birds of the Innocent Wood
Page 481
Change
Page 483
Stella's Birthday
Page 484
Statement to Offspring
Page 486
A Leitrim Woman
Page 487
After Death
Page 489
From Glass Slippers and Tough Bargains
Page 490
Optimism
Page 492
From Out of My Head
Page 493
From Very Like a Whale
Page 495
The Irish Emigrant
Page 497
To Crinog
Page 499
Into Whiteness
Page 501
An Old Woman of the Roads
Page 502
From The Awkward Girl
Page 503
A Woman is a Branchy Tree
Page 506
From A Belfast Woman
Page 506
Scene-Shifter Death
Page 508
Notes on the Writers
Page 509
Index of Writers
Page 549
Edition Notes
Originally published: Great Britain : Kyle Cathie, Ltd., 1994.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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