Product Description: Exploring two centuries of Irish women's writing, contributors from Ireland and the United States show how these women have struggled against both colonialism and their own patriarchal nation.Writing in the shadows of Joyce and Yeats, Irish women have long contributed to the ongoing formation of Irish identities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "I long to study the purely national, purely natural character of an Irishwoman." When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for his dissipated ways, he goes off in search of adventure...read more