Lizz Murphy, We Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (1996)

Lizz Murphy, We Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (Australia: Spinifex 1996), 373pp.

Bibliographical details: Lizz Murphy, ed., We Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (Australia: Spinifex 1996), 373pp.

CONTENTS: Introduction, xv; Robyn Rowland, ‘Searching’ [2]; ‘The Beginning’ [4]; ‘Changing’ [7]; ‘The Final Season’ [9]. Mary Dorcey, ‘My Grandmother’s Voice’ [12]; ‘The Breath of History’ [15]; ‘The Gaelic Poets Warned Me’ [18]; ‘The Whiteness of Snow’ [19]; ‘Learning to Live With it’ [20]; ‘I Cannot Love You as You Want to be Loved’ [22]; ‘I Saw a Fish this Morning’ [25]. Helena Mulkerns, ‘Famine Fever’ [27]; ‘The Whole Nine Yards’ [36]; ‘Colleen Burke A Shadow on the Heart’ [51]; ‘To Whom it May Concern’ [53]; ‘A Joyous Day’ [57]. Linda Anderson, ‘The Making of a Writer’ [68]; ‘The Marvellous Boy’ [70]. Nuala Archer, ‘Sheela-Na-Gigging Around’ [91]. Siobhan McHugh, ‘Power Cuts’ [101]. Maeve Binchy, ‘Extract from Echoes’ [122]. Mary Daly, ‘Extract from Outercourse’ [134]. Sue Reidy, ‘Being Irish’ [150]; ‘Belief’ [157]. Jill Jones, ‘How I Might Write Irish’ [170]; ‘Broken Language’ [173]; ‘Lunch Music Cafe’ [177]; ‘Among Trees’ [178]; ‘Invisible Ink’ [179]; ‘Ideas of Sirens’ [181]; ‘Antipodean Geography’ [182]; ‘The Pure in Heart’ [183]. Medbh McGuckian, ‘Drawing Ballerinas: How Being Irish has Influenced Me as a Writer’ [185]; ‘The Mast Year’ [204]; ‘Road 32; Roof 13-23; Grass 23’ [205]; ‘The Dead are More Alive’ [207]; ‘Rathlin Road’ [210]. Cherry Smyth, The Roadside’ [212]; ‘Maybe it was 1970’ [214]; ‘Summer Breeze’ [217]. Joan Bridget, ‘Seeing Stars’ [ 232]; ‘Falling Asleep with Strangers’ [234]. Ailbhe Smyth, ‘Girl Beaming in a White Dress’ [239]. Lizz Murphy, ‘Growing a Language’ [250]; ‘Paper Petals’ [253]; ‘White Petals’ [255]; ‘Good Fairy Bad Fairy’ [257]; ‘My Irishness’ [258]; ‘Wee Girls’ [260]; ‘Sentiments’; ‘Millies; ‘Tatts; ‘Bobbing for Apples’; ‘Speaking of Eve’; ‘Sabbath’; ‘Good Women’; Dying’ [262]; ‘Deadmen’s Eyes’ [266]; ‘Time Out’ [267]; ‘The Planet Next Door’ [269]. Bub Bridger, ‘Once Upon a Time’ [272]; ‘A Wedding’ [275]; ‘Skeletons’ [286]; ‘Coming Back Down to Earth’ [289]; ‘Priorities’ [291]. Francesca Rendle-Short, ‘Loop the Loop’ [293]. Pam Lewis, ‘Potatofah-Minirish’ [318]; ‘Lifo’ [321]. Bronwyn Rodden, ‘On Being an Irish Woman Writer’ [335]; ‘Tomato Time’ [337]; ‘Long Drive to Work; Snowy via Canberra’ [343]; ‘Lamb-marking’ [344]; ‘Rites’ [345]; ‘Bee Yellow Native’ [347]; ‘Circling Dublin’ [348]. Rita Ann Higgins, ‘The Flogger’ [351]; ‘Prism’ [354]; ‘The Taxi Man Knows’ [355]; ‘Mothercare’ [356]; ‘Higher Purchase’ [358]; ‘The Flute Girl’s Dialogue’ [359]. Eavan Boland, ‘Anna Liffey’ [362]; ‘Making the Difference’ [370]; ‘The Emigrant Irish’ [373].