Bibliography of Irish Women’s Studies

University of Ulster Library Catalogue - Feminist Listings (1997)
  • Bibliography of Women’s Studies ZHG 1180
  • Women in Ireland HQ1600.3
  • Women in Lit. PN 56.W6 [Cixous]
  • Women in English Fiction PR 830
  • Women in Victorian Lit. PR 8078
  • Women Authors PN 471
  • Women auths - Anglo-Irish collections PR 8836
  • Women auths. - Anglo-Irish prose PR 8876
  • Women in Film PN 1995
  • Women Suffrage -Ireland JN 1533

Bibliographies
  • Loeb, Catherine, Women’s Studies: Recommended Core Bibliography, 1980-85 [vol ii] (Winsconsin 1987)
  • Stineman, Esther, Women’s Studies: Recommended Core Bibliography [Vol I] (Winsconsin 1979).

Literary Biographies of Women
  • Banks, Olive, Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists, vol. I 1800-1930 (NY 1985)
  • Crawford, Anne, Europa Dictionary of British Women (19??)
  • Blair, V., P. Clements & I. Grundy , eds., The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present (Yale UP & Batsford, London 1990) 7 PR 111 F45
  • Magill, Frank, ed., Great Women Writers: The Lives and Works of 135 of the World’s Most Important Women Writers, from antiquity to the present day (Hales 1994).
  • Showalter, Elaine, A Literature of their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1978; rev. 1984)
  • Showalter, Elaine,, Daughters of Decadence: women writers of the fin de siecle (Virago 1993), 326pp.
  • Todd, Janet, ed., A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1600-1800 (n.d. [as cited in FDA1]).

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Irish Biographies of Women
  • Blackbourne [Casey] Elizabeth, Illustrious and Notable Irishwomen (1877)
  • Byrne, Art, & Sean MacMahon, eds., Lives: 113 Great Irishmen and Irishwomen (Poolbeg 1990)
  • Concannon, Helena Walsh, Women of Ninety-Eight (1919)
  • Concannon, Helena Walsh, Daughters of Banba (1930)
  • Coxhead, Elizabeth, Daughters of Erin: Five Women of the Irish Renascence (London: Secker & Warburg, [1965]).
  • Eccles, C[harlotte] O’Conor, ‘Some Irishwomen in London’, in Donahue, 54 (1905)
  • Fox, R[ichard[] M[ichael], Rebel Irishwomen (Talbot 1935)
  • Gerard, Frances H., Some Celebrated Irish Beauties of the last Century (1895), with port. plates.
  • Gerard, Frances H., Women Writers, Their Works and Ways (London 1892-3, 2nd series).
  • Gerard, Frances H., Some Fair Hibernians, suppl. vol to Celebrated Beauties, supra (1897), 279pp.
  • Hamilton, C[atherine] J[ane], Notable Irishwomen [n.d. 1904].
  • McCormack, Malachi , trans., Herself Long Ago: Six Irish Women One Thousand Years Ago (Stone St. Press NY 1991).
  • McCraith, L.M., Romance of Irish Heroines (London 1913), 174pp [myth. and historical]
  • O’Kelly, Seamus G., Sweethearts of the Irish Rebels (Dublin:A1 Books 1968)
  • O’Toole , L. M., ‘Women Writers of The Nation,’ in Thomas Davis and Young Ireland, ed. MJ MacManus, pp. 119-122 (Dublin 1945).
  • Sharp, Mrs. William, ed., Women’s Voices: An Anthology of the Most Characteristic Poems by English, Scotch, and Irish Women (1887)
  • Staley, Thomas, ed., 20th century Women Novelists, (NJ, 1982).
    Tynan, Katherine, Cabinet of Irish Literature (1904 ed.) [lists 71 women writers]
    Quinlan, Carmel, Genteel Revolutionaries: Anna and Thomas Haslam, Pioneers of Irish Feminism (Cork UP 2002).
    Ward, Margaret, The Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism (1983).
  • Wiltscher, A., Most Dangerous Women: Feminist Peace Campaigners of the Great War (Lon. 1985).

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Irish Anthologies of Women Writers
  • Archer, Nuala, ed. Contemporary Irish Women Poets (Oklahoma UP 1986).
  • Casey, Daniel & Linda M. Casey, eds., Stories by Contemporary Irish Women (Syracuse 1990).
  • Henry, P. L, sel. & trans., Dánta Ban: Poems of Irish Women, Early and Modern (Cork: Mercier Press 1992).
  • Kelly, A. A., Pillars of the House, Anthology of Verse by Irish Women, 1690 to the Present (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1988).
  • Madden-Simpson, Janet, ed., Women’s Part: An Anthology of short fiction by and about Irish women 1890-1960 (Dublin 1984).
  • Marcus, D. (1994) Alternative Loves: Irish Gay and Lesbian Stories (Dublin: Martello [q.d.]; rep. as. Cork: Mercier 1994), 232pp. [contribs. incl. Edna O’Brien, William Trevor, and Sean O’Faolain].
  • Ward, Margaret, ed., In their Own Voice: Women and Irish Nationalism (Attic 1996)
Irish Feminist History & Literary Criticism
  • Ap Hwyel, E., ‘Elise and the Great Queens of Ireland: ‘‘Femininity’’ as Constructed by Sinn Féin and the Abbey Theatre, 1901-1907’, in Gender in Irish Writing ed. David Cairns & R. O’Brien Johnston (Milton Keynes: Open UP 1991).
  • Benton, S, ‘Women Disarmed: The Militarization of Politics in Ireland 1913-23’, in Feminist Review, 50 (1995), pp.148-72.
  • Boland, Eavan, A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in the National Tradition (Dublin: Attic 1989).
  • Boland, Eavan, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time (Manchester: Carcanet 1996).
  • Bourke, J., Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland, 1890-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon 1993).
  • Boyd, C., Out for Ourselves: The Lives of Irish Lesbians and Gay Men (Dublin: Dublin Lesbian and Gay Men’s Collectives and Women’s Community Press 1986).
  • Bourke, Joanna, Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic change, and Housework in Ireland 1890-1914 (OUP 1993).
  • Canadian Journal of Irish Studies [Special Issue: Women in Ireland], Vol. 18, No. 1 (1992).
  • Cairns, David & Shawn Richards, ‘Woman in the Discourse of Celticism’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 13, 1 (1987), pp.43-60.
  • Cairns, David & Shawn Richards, ‘Tropes and Traps: Aspects of ‘‘Woman’’ and Nationality in Twentieth-century Irish Drama’, in D. Cairns and T. O’Brien Johnson (eds) Gender in Irish Writing (Milton Keynes: Open UP 1991), [q.p.].
  • Cairns, David and T. O’Brien Johnson, eds. (1991) Gender in Irish Writing, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
  • Carroll, Clare, ‘Representations of Women in Some Early Modern English Tracts on the Colonization of Ireland’, in Albion 25, 3 (1993), pp.379-94.
  • Cote, J., ‘Writing Women Out of History: Fanny and Anna Parnell and the Irish Ladies’ Land League’, in Etudes lrlandaises, 17, 2 (1992), pp.123-34.
  • Crone, J., ‘Lesbian Feminism in Ireland’, Women’s Studies Internanonal Forum, 11, 4 (1988), pp.343-47.
  • Cullen, Mary, and Maria Luddy, Women, Power, and Consciousness in 19th c. Ireland (Attic 1996)
  • Cullen, Mary, ‘Redefining Knowledge: Women’s Studies in Ireland’, in Council News (Council for the Status of Women 1986), q.pp.
  • Cullen, Mary, ‘Women’s History in Ireland’, in K. Offen, R. Roach Pierson and J. Rendall, eds., Writing Women’s History: International Perspectives (Bloomington: Indiana UP 1991)
  • Cullen, Mary, & Maria Luddy, Women, Power and Consciovsness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Eight Biographical Studies (Dublin: Attic 1995).
  • Cullinan, M., ‘Bibliography: Irish Women’, Journal of Women’s History, 6, 4 and 7, 1 (1995), pp.250-77.
  • Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler, Ireland’s Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish literature and Popular Culture (Cork UP 2001), 260pp.
  • Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler, ‘‘‘Thinking of her as Ireland’’: Yeats, Pearse and Heaney’, in Textual Practice 4, 1 (1987), pp.443-60.
  • Cummins, P., Jones B., Murphy P. and Smyth Ailbhe, ‘Image Making, Image Breaking’, Circa 32 (1987), pp.13-19.
  • Curtin, C., P. Jackson & B. O’Connor, Gender in Irish Society (NUI Galway [Officina Typographica] 1987);
  • Diner, H. R., Erin's Daughters in America: Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (John Hopkins UP 1983).
  • Evason, Eileen, Against the Grain: The Contemporary Women’s Movement in Northern Ireland (Dublin: Attic Press 1991), 63pp.
  • Finn, C., ‘A Question of Identity’, in Off Our Backs, 25, 4 (1995), pp.1 & 6-7.
  • Fielding, S., Class and Ethnicity: Irish Catholics in England, 1880-1939 (Open University 1993).
  • Fletcher, R., ‘Silences: Irish Women and Abortion’, in Feminist Review, 50 (1995), pp.44-56.
  • Foley, Timothy P., Lionel Pilkington, Sean Ryder, and Elizabeth Tilley, eds., Gender and Colonialism [sel. papers from ‘Gender and Colonialism’ Conference, UCG 1992] (Galway UP 1995) [contributions from Carol Coulter, Anne Fogarty, David Lloyd, and Patrick Williams].
  • Gaffney, Maureen, Glass Slippers and Tough Bargains: women, men and power (Attic Press 1991), 23pp.
  • Gallagher, S. F., Women in Irish Legend, Life, and Literature (Gerrards Cross 1982).
  • Gardiner, E., ‘Political Interest and Participation of Irish Women 1922-1992: The Unfinished Revolution’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 18, 1 (1991), pp.15-39.
  • Hadfield, Andrew and John McVeagh, Strangers to That Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1994).
  • Hargreaves, Tamsin, ‘Women’s Consciousness and Identity in Four Women Novelists,’ in Michael Kenneally, ed., Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms in Contemporary Irish Literature (1988), 328pp.
  • Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle, Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets (Dublin: Attic Press; Syracuse UP 1996), 250pp.
  • Healy, G., & A. Smyth, ‘Women’s Studies Irish Style’, in RFR/DRF, 16, 4 (Toronto 1987). Innes, C. L., Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society, 1880-1935 (NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1993).
  • Jones, A. R. & P. Stallybrass, ‘Dismantling Irena: The Sexualising of Ireland in Early Modern England’, in A. Parker, M. Russo, Sommer D., & R. Yaeger, eds., Nationalisms and Sexualities (London: Routledge 1992).
  • Kearney, Richard, Myth and Motherland, Field Day Pamphlet No. 5 (Derry 1984).
  • Kilmurrey, A., ‘Women in the Community in Northern Ireland: Struggling for their Half of the Sky’, Studies, 76 (1987), pp.177-84.
  • Kirkpatrick, Kathyrn, Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 316pp. [essays on Lady Morgan, Lady Gregory, Lawless; Katherine Tynan; Eliz. Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Mary Beckett; Emma Donoghue, et al.]
  • C. L. Innes, Woman and Nation in Irish Literaure, 180-1935 (Athens, Ga.: Georgia UP; Hemel Hempstead:Harvester 1993), p.174.
  • Jackson, Pauline, and Barbara O’Connor, eds., Gender in Irish Society (Galway UP 1989).
  • Leonard, M., ‘The Politics of Everyday Living in Belfast’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 18, 1 (1991), pp.83-94.
  • Leonard, M., Mother Ireland (Coventry: Coventry Museums and Galleries 1994).
  • Luddy, Maria, ‘An Outcast Community: The "wrens" of the Curragh’, Women’s History Review, 1, 3 (1992), pp.341-55.
  • Luddy, Maria, ‘An Agenda for Women’s History in Ireland, Part II: 1800-1900’, in Irish Historical Studies, 28 (1992-93), pp.19-37.
  • Luddy, Maria, Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Cambridge UP 1995).
  • Luddy, Maria & Christina Murphy, eds. Women Surviving: Studies in Irish Women’s History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1989).
  • Lubbers, Klaus, ‘Emancipatory Women in Late Nineteenth Century Anglo-Irish Fiction: a Note on the Emergence of a Motif’, in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 12 no. 1 (June 1986), pp.53-58.
  • Luddy, Maria, Women in Ireland 1800-1918: A Documentary History (Cork UP 1996).
  • MacCarthy, B G, The Female Pen: Women Writers and Novelists 1621-1818 [first issued in 2 vols, 1944, 1947] (Cork UP 1994), 530pp.
  • MacCurtain, Margaret, ‘The "ordinary heroine": women into history’, in Ten Dublin Women (Dublin: Women’s Commemoration and Celebration Committee 1991).
  • MacCurtain, Margaret, ‘Late in the Field: Catholic Sisters in twentieth-century Ireland and the new religious history’, in Journal of Women’s History 6, 4 & 7, 1 (1995), pp.49-63.
  • MacCurtain, Margaret, & Mary O’Dowd, ‘An Agenda for Women’s History in Ireland, Pt I: 1500-1800’, in Irish Historical Studies 28 (1992-93), pp.1-19.
  • MacCurtain, Margaret & Mary O’Dowd, eds., Women in Early Modern Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1991).
  • McCurtain, Margaret, and Donncha Ó Corrain, eds., Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension (Dublin: Arlen House 1978)
  • McWilliams, Monica, ‘Struggling for Peace and Justice: Reflections on Women’s Activism in Northern Ireland’, in Journal of Women’s History, 6, 4 & 7, 1 (1995), pp.13-39.
  • Manning, Maurice, ‘Women and the Elections’, in Ireland at the Polls, ed. Howard R. Penniman (Washington: AEI [American Enterprise Inst. for Public Relations] 1978);
  • Manning, Maurice, ‘Women and Politics in Ireland’, in Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, ed. Margaret McCurtain & Donncha Ó Corrain (Dublin: Arlen House 1978).
  • Manning, Maurice, Meaney, Gerardine, Sex and Nation: Women in Irish Culture and Politics (Dublin: Attic Press 1991), 23pp.
  • Meek, C., & Katherine Simms, The Fragility of her Sex? Medieval Irish women in their European context (Dublin: Four Courts 1996), symposium.
  • Mullin, M., ‘Representations of History, Irish Feminism and the Politics of Difference’, in Feminist Studies, 17, 1 (1991), pp.29-50.
  • Mulvey, A., ‘Irish Women’s Studies and Community Activism: Reflections and Exemplars’, in Women’s Studies International Forum, 15, 4 (1992).
  • Murphy, Christina, The Women’s Suffrage and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century, (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1989).
  • Murphy, Christina, ‘Women’s History, Feminist History or Gender History’, in Irish Review, 12 (1992), q.pp.
  • Nash, Catherine, ‘Embodied Irishness: Gender, Sexuality and Irish Identities’, [q. source], pp.180-27.
  • Ní Brolchain, M., ‘Women in Early Myths and Sagas’, in The Crane Bag, 4-5 (1980-81).
  • Ní Chuileanain, Eiléan, ed. Irish Women, Image and Achievement: Women in Irish Culture from the Earliest Times (Dub:Arlen House 1985).
  • Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, ‘An t-Anam Mothala: The Feeling Soul’, in The Cultures of Europe: The Irish Contribution, ed. J. P. Mackey (Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies 1994).
  • O’Brien Johnson, T., and David Cairns, ed., Gender in Irish Writing (Gerrards Cross:Colin Smythe 1991).
  • Owens, R. C., Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Suffrage Movement (Dublin: Attic Press 1977);
  • Owens, R. C., ‘Votes for Women: Irish Women’s Campaign for the Vote 1876-1915’ (MA Thesis UCD 1977).
  • Rhodes, Ruth, Women and the Family in Post-Famine Irelan: Status and Opportunity in a Patriarchal Society (Garland Pub. 1992).
  • Rieder, Ines, Feminism and Eastern Europe (Dublin: Attic Press 1991), 23pp.
  • Rooney, E., ‘Political Division, Practical Alliance: Problems for Women in Conflict’, in Journal of Women’s History 6, 4 & 7, 1 (1995), pp.40-48.
  • Rose, C[hristina], The Female Experience: The Story of the Woman’s Movement in Ireland (Galway 1975).
  • Rossiter, A., ‘Bringing the Margins into the Centre: A Review of Aspects of Irish Women’s Emigration’, in Ireland’s Histories: Aspects of State, Society and Ideology, ed. Sean Hutton and R[obert] Stewart (London: Routledge 1991)
  • Ryan, L., ‘Traditions and Double Moral Standards: The Irish Suffragists’ Critique of Nationalism’, in Women’s History Review 4, 1 (1995), pp.487-503.
  • Sawyer, Roger, We Are But Women: Women in Ireland’s History [rev. Aisling Foster, TLS, Mar. 4, 1994; with letter in riposte, B. O Seaghda, Dublin, 18 Mar.]
  • Scannell, Yvonne, ‘The Constitution and the Role of women’, in De Valera’s Constitution and Ours, ed. Brian Farrell (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988).
  • Scott, et al., Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender, Space (London: Routledge [2001]), 208pp.
  • Sharkey, S., Ireland and the Iconography of Rape: Colonisation, Constraint and Gender, (London: N. London UP 1994).
  • Smith, B., ‘Racism and Women’s Studies’, in All the Women are White: All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women’s Studies (NY: Feminist Press 1982).
  • Smyth, Ailbhe, ‘The Contemporary Women’s Movement in the Republic of Ireland’, in Women’s Studies International Forum, 11, 4 (1988), pp.331-41.
  • Smyth, Ailbhe, ‘"The floozie in the jacuzzi"’, in Feminist Studies 17, 1 (1991), pp.7-28.
  • Smyth, Ailbhe, ed., The Abortion Papers (Dublin: Attic Press 1992).
  • Smyth, Ailbhe, ‘"A Great Day for the Women of Ireland": The Meaning of Mary Robinson’s Presidency for Irish Women’, in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 18, 1 (1992), pp.61-75.
  • Smyth, Ailbhe, ed., Irish Women’s Stvdies Reader (Dublin: Attic Press 1993), 279pp. [contents].
  • Smyth, Ailbhe, ‘States of Change: Reflections on Ireland in Several Uncertain Parts’, in Feminist Review 50 (1995), pp.24 43.
  • Smyth, C., ‘Cherry Smyth’, in Leading Lives: Irish Women in Britain, ed. Richard Wall (Dublin: Attic Press 1991).
  • TeBrake, J., ‘Irish Peasant Women in Revolt: The Land League Years’, in Irish Historical Studies 28 (1992), pp.63-80.
  • Valente, Joseph, ‘The Myth of Sovereignty: Gender in the Literature of Irish Nationalism’, in ELH 61 (1994), pp.189-210.
  • Valiulis, Maria G., ‘Power, Gender and Identity in the Irish Free State’, in Journal of Women’s History 6, 4 & 7, 1 (1995), pp.117-36.
  • Walsh, L., ‘Thoughts on Justice and Snakes’, in In A State: An Exhibition in Kilmainham Gaol on National Identity, ed. J. Graeve ( Dublin: Project Press 1991).
  • Ward, Margaret, Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism (Dingle: Brandon Press 1983).
  • Ward, Margaret, ‘The Women’s Movement in the North of Ireland: Twenty Years On’, in Ireland’s Histories: Aspects of State, Society and Ideology, ed. Sean Hutton & Robert Stewart (London: Routledge 1991).
  • Ward, Margaret, The Missing Sex: Putting Women into Irish History [LIP pamph.] (Dublin: Attic Press 1992), 24pp.
  • Ward, Margaret, ‘Marginality and Militancy: Cumann na mBan 1914-1936’, in Ireland: Divided Nation, Divided Class, ed. A. Morgan & P. Purdie (London: Inklinks 1980);
  • Weekes, Ann Owen, Irish Women Writers (Kentucky UP 1990).
  • Weekes, Ann Owen, Unveiling Treasures: The Attic Guide to the Published Works of Irish Women Literary Writers (Dublin:Attic Press 1993), 368pp., index.
  • Wilson, Rebecca E., ed., Sleeping with Monsters: Conversations with Scottish and Irish Women Poets (Wolfhound 1991) [interviews with Medbh McGuckian, et al.]
  • Wilford, R., ‘Women and politics in Northern Ireland’, in Parliamentary Affairs, 49, 1 (1996), pp. 41-54.
  • Women’s Studies Centre Review [NUI Galway] (1992- )

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Bibliographical details
Ailbhe Smyth, ed., Irish Women’s Studies Reader (Attic Press 1993), CONTENTS: Introduction [i]; Jo Murphy-Lawless, ‘The Silencing of Women in Childbirth or Let’s Hear it for Bartholemew and the Boys’ [9]; Margaret Ward, ‘Suffrage First: Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement’ [20]; Frances Gardiner, ‘Political Interest and Participation of Irish Women 1922-1992: The Unfinished Revolution’ [45]; Monica McWilliams , ‘The Church, the State and the Women’s Movement in Northern Ireland’ [79]; Mary Robinson, ‘Women and the Law in Ireland’ [100]; Madeleine Leonard, ‘Rape: Myths and Reality’ [107]; Mary Daly, ‘The Relationship Between Women’s Work and Poverty’ [122]; Anne Byrne. ‘Revealing Figures? Official Statistics and Rural Irish Women’ [140]; Eileen Evason, ‘Women and Poverty’ [162] ; Ann Rossiter, ‘Bringing the Margins Into the Centre: A Review of Aspects of Irish Women’s Emigration’ [177]; Margaret MacCurtain, ‘Moving Statues and Irish Women’ [203]; Mary O’Malley Madec, ‘The Irish Travelling Woman: Mother and Mermaid’ [214]; Gerardine Meaney, Sex and Nation: Women in Irish Culture and Politics’ [230]; Ailbhe Smyth, ‘The Women’s Movement in the Republic of Ireland 1970-1990’ [245]. About the Contributors’ [270]. Acknowledgements and Sources of Chapters’ [272]; Index’ [273]

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