Full Description
Margaret Mac Curtain - feminist, educator, activist, Dominican nun - has, since the 1960s, been an influential and respected commentator on Irish society. In this book of essays - the sister collection to her acclaimed Ariadne's Thread: Writing Women into Irish History (Arlen House, 2008) - she engages, in her uniquely insightful and frequently challenging way, with feminism, culture, Irish history and politics, mathematics, activism, spirituality and theology, education and women's history, in essays written from the 1960s to the 2010s. In a writing style that makes the complicated accessible and elevates the local to the international, these essays shine a spotlight on both the individual and collective experiences of women and men in Irish society over many centuries.
Contents
The Nun Coming Through the Gap by Diarmaid Ferriter
Irish Material in Fondo Santa Sede, Madrid (1963)
Thoughts on Sunday (1964)
The Geraldine War - Rebellion or Crusade? (1965)
An Irish Agent of the Counter--Reformation, Dominic O'Daly (1967)
From the Renaissance to Bourbaki (1968)
Youth and Dissent (1970)
Education: A Church-State Problem in Twentieth-Century Ireland (1973)
Women - Irish Style (1974)
Pre-Famine Peasantry in Ireland: Definition and Theme (1974)
The Fall of the House of Desmond (1975)
Rural Society in Post-Cromwellian Ireland (1979)
The Roots of Irish Nationalism (1981)
Women of Eccles Street (1982)
Women: The Historical Image (1985)
Sisters (1985)
Women: Part of the Laity? (1986)
The Flight of the Earls (1986)
Reconciliation of Histories (1988)
A Lost Landscape: The Geraldine Castles and Tower Houses of the Shannon Estuary (1988)
Breaking the Mould (1989)
Mary Robinson: Metaphor for Change (1990)
Speaking after (the) Tone (1991)
An Agenda for Women's History in Ireland, 1500-1800 by Margaret Mac Curtain and Mary O'Dowd (1992)
The Role of Religion in Ireland: The Historical Dimension (1993)
Sister Act (1994) by Margaret Mac Curtain and Thomas O'Loughlin
Ennistymon (1994)
The Challenge of Researching Nuns' Lives (1994)
Hogan and Tudor Ireland (2001)
Religion, Science, Theology and Ethics, 1500-2000 (2002)
Education in Ireland before 1800 (2002)
Tending the Wells of Memory: Sharing Sources of Hope (2004)
Late Medieval Nunneries of the Irish Pale (2006)
The Abbess and the Cailleach in Medieval Irish Culture (2010)
The 1940s: Women Academics at University College Cork (2010)
Index
