Description
| Product ID: | 9781911479833 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IE |
| Title: | Sisters |
| Authors: | Author: Mary O'Dowd, Siobhan Fitzpatrick |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Ireland |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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, Máire and Mairghréad Ó 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 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, Máire and Mairghréad Ó 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 |
| Imprint Name: | Royal Irish Academy |
| Publisher Name: | Royal Irish Academy |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-20 |