Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Dr. Kathryn Laing lectures in the Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Her teaching and research interests are principally in late nineteenth-century Irish women's writing, New Woman fiction, modernist women writers, periodical and print culture. Her co-written literary biography, Hannah Lynch: Irish Writer, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, is forthcoming from Cork University Press. She is the co-organizer and administrator of the Irish Women's Writing Network. The network features in a recent essay: '"Only Connect": Irish Women's Voices, Latin America and the Irish Women's Writing Network' in a special issue of Irish Migration Studies in Latin America (2018). Dr. Sinad Mooney is a senior lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester. Her research interests are in modernism, women's writing, and Irish literature, and she also teaches creative writing. She has published widely on the work of Samuel Beckett and Irish women's writing, especially the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Molly Keane, and Mary Lavin. Her monograph A Tongue Not Mine: Samuel Beckett and Translation (Oxford University Press, 2011) won the ACIS Robert Prize for Irish Writing. She is currently working on Katherine Cecil Thurston, and on turn-of-the-twentieth-century speculative fiction by Irish women. The Series Editor is Dr. Pilar Villar Argiz, Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Literature in the Department of English Philology at the University of Granada.
She has published extensively on Irish poetry and fiction, in relation to questions of gender, race, migration and 'interculturality'. Her edited collections include Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature (Manchester University Press, 2014), Irishness on the Margins: Minority and Dissident Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), the special issue
of Irish Studies Review (entitled "Irish Multiculturalism in Crisis",
co-edited with Jason King, 2015), and the special issue of Nordic Irish
Studies (entitled "Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic
Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland", 2016).
She is the author of the books Eavan Boland's Evolution as an
Irish Woman Poet: An Outsider within an Outsider's Culture (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007) and The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading (Academica Press, 2008).
Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals of her field such as New Hibernia Review, Irish University Review, Contemporary Women's Writing (Oxford Journal), An Sionnach, Estudios Irlandeses and tudes Irlandaises, among others. In March 2010, she was awarded by her University the Prize of Outstanding Research in the field of Humanities. Dr. Villar Argiz is currently a member of the board of AEDEI (Spanish Association of Irish Studies) and the Head of the EFACIS Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Granada.

New Perspectives

Maureen O’Connor, Nation and Nature in the Work of First-Wave Irish Feminists / Seán Hewitt, Emily Lawless: The Child as Natural Historian /  Christopher Cusack, Sunk in the Mainstream: Irish Women Writers and Famine Memory, 1892-1910 / Whitney Standlee, ‘Emigrants-Beware!’: M. E. Francis’s The Story of Mary Dunne (1913), White Slavery and the Myth of the Ruined Woman / Lia Mills, A Country of the Mind: Eva Gore-Booth and the Easter Rising, 1916 / Kate Louise Mathis,  ‘Dividing many spirits from their peace’: The voices of Deirdre in the poetry and drama of Eva Gore-Booth and Moírín Cheavasa / Julie Anne Stevens, International Relations in the Writing and Artwork of Edith Œ Somerville and Martin Ross / Anne Jamison, ‘Land, Hunting and the Irish New Girl: Edith Somerville’s “Little Red Riding Hood in Kerry”’ / Matthew Reznicek, A Thing of Possibilities: The Railroad and Cosmopolitical Belonging in Thurston’s Max / Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka, ‘Modernist Silence’ in Irish New Woman Fiction

Recoveries

Heidi Hansson, Intellectual Journals and the Irish Women Writer: The Case of the Nineteenth Century 1877-1900 / Elke D’hoker, Anglo-Irish Relations in the Short Stories of Ethel Colburn Mayne

Mary Pierse, Rediscovering Elizabeth Priestley:  spirited writer, feminist, and suffragist. / Patrick Maume,  Education, Love, Loneliness, Philanthropy: The Ambivalences of Erminda Rintoul Esler

Lindsay Janssen,  From Special Correspondence to Fiction: Memory and Veracity in Margaret McDougall’s Writings on Ireland / Barry Montgomery, Hannah Berman (1885-1955): Jewish Lithuania and the Irish Literary Revival / Lisa Weihman, Mothers of the Insurrection: Theodosia Hickey’s Easter Week / Nadia Smith, Retrieving Rosamond Jacob’s Early Unpublished Novels