Irish Women's Letters
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This wide-ranging selection, from St Brigid, who founded a monastery in the 5th century, up to the 1990s, offers us a captivating insight into Irish women's lives through the centuries. Maud Gonne McBride writes to W.B. Yeats in 1916 of being 'overwhelmed by the tragedy & the greatness of the sacrifice our countrymen & women have made'; Irish emigrant Mary Cumming tells of her longing 'to breathe once more my native air in darling healthy Ireland'; Kitty Kiernan reveals to Michael Collins how she 'almost shudder(s) at the strength of my love'; and many lesser-known women write of their day-to-day lives and the times through which they lived.
