Product Description: This book offers a collection of Margaret Mac Curtain's pioneering essays in the field of Irish women's history. Subjects range from marriage and education in early modern Ireland to female spirituality and representations in art and literature.

Product Description: In 1889 two young girls left the relative security of their convent boarding school in Dublin to embark on a journey into the unknown. The diaries they kept of that journey and their new lives as Dominican nuns forms the basis of this book. A riveting read. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Assessing the role of women in Ireland between 1500 and 1800 - a period of considerable social and economic change, this volume examines Irish women in their domestic, political and religious activities. It looks at prejudices against women in the medical texts of the period; women's experience of education; the impact upon women of Gaelic law; women and childbirth; and the different opportunities offered by Catholicism and Protestantism, amongst other subjects...read more

Product Description: Book by Mac Curtain, Margaret, O Corrain, Donncha