A History of Irish Women's Poetry

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Introduction: why foremothers? Ailbhe Darcy and David Wheatley
1. The reception of Irish women poets Anne Fogarty
2. Women in the medieval poetry business Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha
3. Seventeenth century women's poetry in Ireland Danielle Clarke and Sarah McKibben
4. The oral tradition Tríona Ni Shíocháin
5. Archipelagic Ireland: women's anglophone poetry from the eighteenth century Sarah Prescott
6. Irish Romanticism Catherine Jones
7. Mary Tighe in life, myth, and literary vicissitude Stephen Behrendt
8. Masculinity, nationhood and the Irish woman poet, 1860–1922 Lucy Collins
9. The eclipse of Dora Sigerson Matthew Campbell
10. Between revivalist lyric and Irish modernism Sarah Bennett
11. The other 'northern renaissance' Jaclyn Allen
12. Rematriating mid-century modernism: Carla Lanyon Lanyon Moynagh Sullivan
13. Accidental Irishness and the transnational legacy of Lola Ridge Daniel Tobin
14. Crisis and renewal: Irish-language poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Daniela Theinová
15. The poetry of Máire Mhac an tSaoi and the indivisibility of love Patricia Coughlan
16. Voices from limbo: Biddy Jenkinson David Wheatley
17. Bilingual poetry Kenneth Keating
18. Catholicism in modern Irish women's poetry Catriona Clutterbuck
19. 1970s–80s feminism Kit Fryatt
20. The art of fabrication: reading Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin Maria Johnston
21. Eavan Boland, history and silence Guinn Batten
22. Paula Meehan and the public poem Kathryn Kirkpatrick
23. Formalism and contemporary women's poetry Tara McEvoy
24. Susan Howe, Maggie O'Sullivan, Catherine Walsh Nerys Williams
25. Irish women's poetry beyond the now Anne Mulhall.

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