{"id":775,"date":"2020-12-07T20:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T01:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-hesburgh\/?p=775"},"modified":"2020-12-07T20:21:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T01:21:28","slug":"emphasis-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/irish-hesburgh\/2020\/12\/07\/emphasis-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Emphasis on Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s many months since I’ve reported on new books in the library, and, hoping to display some of our new books in the coming weeks, I thought it would be interesting to begin with a selection of new books on women, women’s affairs, and women’s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruth Carr and Natasha Cuddington, eds. Her Other Language: Northern Irish Women Address Domestic Violence and Abuse.<\/em> Arlen House. PR 8836 .W6 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elaine Farrell. Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland: Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison.<\/em> Cambridge University Press. -ebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Walsh. Irish Servicewomen in the Great War: From the Western Front to the Roaring Twenties.<\/em> Pen & Sword.  D 639 .W7 W35 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celia de Fr\u00e9ine, Mn\u00e1 D\u00e1na.<\/em> Arlen House. PB 1399 .D37 M63 2009 (and a second copy in Special Collections for use in the Library.)
This is a collection of three plays by Celia de Fr\u00e9ine, the common thread being the title, ‘Mn\u00e1 D\u00e1na’, or ‘bold women’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Liddy. Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers. <\/em>Cork University Press. PN 1995.9 .W6 L54 2020 (Also online at Project Muse.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margaret MacCurtain. Metaphors for Change<\/em>. Arlen. DA 913 .M2475 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not specifically about women, but as the late Margaret MacCurtain was one of the most important voices in Irish women’s history, her essays on Irish society are relevant here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photograph of Peig Sayers from the National Folklore Collection, UCD. ARCHIVAL REFERENCE
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Peig Sayers. N\u00edl Deireadh R\u00e1ite; Not the Final Word.<\/em> Eagarth\u00f3ir\u00ed\/editors Bo Alquist and P\u00e1draig \u00d3 h\u00c9ala\u00ed. Book with two CDs. New Island. (Not yet cataloged.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann-Maria Walsh. The Daughters of the First Earl of Cork: Writing Family, Faith Politics and Place.<\/em> Four Courts Press. DA 940.5 .C7 W35 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Enright. Actress: A Novel<\/em>. Norton. PR 6055 .N73 A63 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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