Editors: Tina O'Toole is a lecturer in English at the University of Limerick. Her publications include The Irish New Woman (2013), Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives (2008; co-edited with Patricia Coughlan), Documenting Irish Feminisms (2005; co-authored with Linda Connolly), and The Dictionary of Munster Women Writers (2005). Her journal publications include a special issue of Eire-Ireland 2012 on 'Irish Migrancies'-(co-edited with Piaras Mac Einri), and essays in Modernism/Modernity, New Hibernia Review, and Irish University Review, among others; Gillian Mcintosh is a social and Cultural historian. Her research interests include all aspects of Irish social and cultural history, in particular ritual, symbolism, commemoration, the arts and the state, and the history of broadcasting. Her publications reflect these interests, and include Irish Women at War (2010; co-edited with Diane Urquhart), Belfast City Hall: A Hundred Years (2006), and The Force of Culture: Unionist Identities in Twentieth-Century Ireland (1999). She is currently the BBC Industry Fellow at ICRH, Queen's University; Muireann O'Cinneide is a lecturer in English at NUI Galway, where she is programme director for the MA in Culture and Colonialism. She is the author of Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1868 (2008) with Palgrave Macmillan, and has edited two volumes (2013-14) in the Pickering and Chatto Selected Works of Margaret Oliphunt series. She is currently working and publishing 'on empire, women's travel writing and imperial conflict narratives.

'This book comprises essays by female writers about war, from the Land War to the Civil War, from Anna Parnell's Ladies Land League to the early years of the Irish Free State and subsequent disillusionment. Heidi Hansson's essay is a delight, showing how unionist Emily Lawless's gardening diary mixed concern about the progress of the Boer War with concern about her budding shoots, often in the same sentence. Jody Allen Randolph is particularly interesting on Peggie Kelly, who wrote under the pen name of Garrett O'Driscoll.' Irish Times, 10 June 2017 'Lucy Collins examines the war poetry of Winifred Letts and in a splendid piece of literary criticism shows how she sheds new light on the moral ambiguities of violent conflict.' The Irish Catholic, June 2017 'Some thought-provoking books about 1916 and all that have been published this year, both fiction and non-fiction. Women Writing War edited by Tina O'Toole, Gillian McIntosh and Muireann O'Cinneide (University College Dublin Press) is one of my favourites.' Martina Devlin, Irish Independent, 25 December 2016

• Margaret Ward: Preface; Contributors; Introduction; Diane Urquhart: 'The Ladies" Land, League have [sic] a crust to share with you": The Rhetoric of the Ladies' Land League's British Campaign, 1881-2; Muireann O'cinneide: Anne Blunt, Arabi Pasha and the Irish Land Wars; Heidi Hansson: Battles in the Garden: Emily Lawless's A Garden Diary 1899-1900 and the Boer War; Lucy Collins: Winifred Letts and the Great War: A Poetics of Witness; Tina O'toole: The New Women of the Glens: Writers and Revolutionaries; Maureen O'connor: Eva Gore-Booth's Art of War; Riona Nic Congail: 'An Cros-Bhethar': Agnes O'Farrelly's Political Poetry (1918-27); Lucy Mcdiarmid: Uncomfortable Bodies in Women's Accounts of 1916; Jody Allen Randolph: 'If No one Wanted to Remember': Margaret Kelly and the Lost Battalion; Writing the Rising: Lia Mills on Fallen (2014).

Editors: Tina O'Toole is a lecturer in English at the University of Limerick. Her publications include The Irish New Woman (2013), Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives (2008; co-edited with Patricia Coughlan), Documenting Irish Feminisms (2005; co-authored with Linda Connolly), and The Dictionary of Munster Women Writers (2005). Her journal publications include a special issue of Eire-Ireland 2012 on 'Irish Migrancies'-(co-edited with Piaras Mac Einri), and essays in Modernism/Modernity, New Hibernia Review, and Irish University Review, among others; Gillian Mcintosh is a social and Cultural historian. Her research interests include all aspects of Irish social and cultural history, in particular ritual, symbolism, commemoration, the arts and the state, and the history of broadcasting. Her publications reflect these interests, and include Irish Women at War (2010; co-edited with Diane Urquhart), Belfast City Hall: A Hundred Years (2006), and The Force of Culture: Unionist Identities in Twentieth-Century Ireland (1999). She is currently the BBC Industry Fellow at ICRH, Queen's University; Muireann O'Cinneide is a lecturer in English at NUI Galway, where she is programme director for the MA in Culture and Colonialism. She is the author of Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1868 (2008) with Palgrave Macmillan, and has edited two volumes (2013-14) in the Pickering and Chatto Selected Works of Margaret Oliphunt series. She is currently working and publishing 'on empire, women's travel writing and imperial conflict narratives.

'This book comprises essays by female writers about war, from the Land War to the Civil War, from Anna Parnell's Ladies Land League to the early years of the Irish Free State and subsequent disillusionment. Heidi Hansson's essay is a delight, showing how unionist Emily Lawless's gardening diary mixed concern about the progress of the Boer War with concern about her budding shoots, often in the same sentence. Jody Allen Randolph is particularly interesting on Peggie Kelly, who wrote under the pen name of Garrett O'Driscoll.' Irish Times, 10 June 2017 'Lucy Collins examines the war poetry of Winifred Letts and in a splendid piece of literary criticism shows how she sheds new light on the moral ambiguities of violent conflict.' The Irish Catholic, June 2017 'Some thought-provoking books about 1916 and all that have been published this year, both fiction and non-fiction. Women Writing War edited by Tina O'Toole, Gillian McIntosh and Muireann O'Cinneide (University College Dublin Press) is one of my favourites.' Martina Devlin, Irish Independent, 25 December 2016

• Margaret Ward: Preface; Contributors; Introduction; Diane Urquhart: 'The Ladies" Land, League have [sic] a crust to share with you": The Rhetoric of the Ladies' Land League's British Campaign, 1881-2; Muireann O'cinneide: Anne Blunt, Arabi Pasha and the Irish Land Wars; Heidi Hansson: Battles in the Garden: Emily Lawless's A Garden Diary 1899-1900 and the Boer War; Lucy Collins: Winifred Letts and the Great War: A Poetics of Witness; Tina O'toole: The New Women of the Glens: Writers and Revolutionaries; Maureen O'connor: Eva Gore-Booth's Art of War; Riona Nic Congail: 'An Cros-Bhethar': Agnes O'Farrelly's Political Poetry (1918-27); Lucy Mcdiarmid: Uncomfortable Bodies in Women's Accounts of 1916; Jody Allen Randolph: 'If No one Wanted to Remember': Margaret Kelly and the Lost Battalion; Writing the Rising: Lia Mills on Fallen (2014).

Editors: Tina O'Toole is a lecturer in English at the University of Limerick. Her publications include The Irish New Woman (2013), Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives (2008; co-edited with Patricia Coughlan), Documenting Irish Feminisms (2005; co-authored with Linda Connolly), and The Dictionary of Munster Women Writers (2005). Her journal publications include a special issue of Eire-Ireland 2012 on 'Irish Migrancies'-(co-edited with Piaras Mac Einri), and essays in Modernism/Modernity, New Hibernia Review, and Irish University Review, among others; Gillian Mcintosh is a social and Cultural historian. Her research interests include all aspects of Irish social and cultural history, in particular ritual, symbolism, commemoration, the arts and the state, and the history of broadcasting. Her publications reflect these interests, and include Irish Women at War (2010; co-edited with Diane Urquhart), Belfast City Hall: A Hundred Years (2006), and The Force of Culture: Unionist Identities in Twentieth-Century Ireland (1999). She is currently the BBC Industry Fellow at ICRH, Queen's University; Muireann O'Cinneide is a lecturer in English at NUI Galway, where she is programme director for the MA in Culture and Colonialism. She is the author of Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1868 (2008) with Palgrave Macmillan, and has edited two volumes (2013-14) in the Pickering and Chatto Selected Works of Margaret Oliphunt series. She is currently working and publishing 'on empire, women's travel writing and imperial conflict narratives.

'This book comprises essays by female writers about war, from the Land War to the Civil War, from Anna Parnell's Ladies Land League to the early years of the Irish Free State and subsequent disillusionment. Heidi Hansson's essay is a delight, showing how unionist Emily Lawless's gardening diary mixed concern about the progress of the Boer War with concern about her budding shoots, often in the same sentence. Jody Allen Randolph is particularly interesting on Peggie Kelly, who wrote under the pen name of Garrett O'Driscoll.' Irish Times, 10 June 2017 'Lucy Collins examines the war poetry of Winifred Letts and in a splendid piece of literary criticism shows how she sheds new light on the moral ambiguities of violent conflict.' The Irish Catholic, June 2017 'Some thought-provoking books about 1916 and all that have been published this year, both fiction and non-fiction. Women Writing War edited by Tina O'Toole, Gillian McIntosh and Muireann O'Cinneide (University College Dublin Press) is one of my favourites.' Martina Devlin, Irish Independent, 25 December 2016

• Margaret Ward: Preface; Contributors; Introduction; Diane Urquhart: 'The Ladies" Land, League have [sic] a crust to share with you": The Rhetoric of the Ladies' Land League's British Campaign, 1881-2; Muireann O'cinneide: Anne Blunt, Arabi Pasha and the Irish Land Wars; Heidi Hansson: Battles in the Garden: Emily Lawless's A Garden Diary 1899-1900 and the Boer War; Lucy Collins: Winifred Letts and the Great War: A Poetics of Witness; Tina O'toole: The New Women of the Glens: Writers and Revolutionaries; Maureen O'connor: Eva Gore-Booth's Art of War; Riona Nic Congail: 'An Cros-Bhethar': Agnes O'Farrelly's Political Poetry (1918-27); Lucy Mcdiarmid: Uncomfortable Bodies in Women's Accounts of 1916; Jody Allen Randolph: 'If No one Wanted to Remember': Margaret Kelly and the Lost Battalion; Writing the Rising: Lia Mills on Fallen (2014).