Browsing by Subject "Women"
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'Battle of the Sixes': investigating print media representations of female professional golfers competing in a men's tour event (Pre published)
(SAGE Publications, 2019-04-14)In May 2018, the men’s European Tour invited five female professional golfers to compete in its GolfSixes event in England, against 27 professional male players. This was significant, particularly given the female struggle ... -
"The distant skin": a deconstructive analysis of women and polysemic touch in the writing of John McGahern and Anne Enright
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This thesis, by providing a deconstructive reading of the work of John McGahern and Anne Enright, elucidates the way in which the place, position and representation of women in modern Irish society is profoundly affected ... -
“Only connect”: Irish women’s voices, Latin America & the Irish women’s writing network
(The Society for Irish Latin American Studies, 2018)This essay offers a preliminary sketch of the recent critical attention given to Irish women and the literary interfaces between Ireland and Latin America (e.g. travel writers, immigrant or diasporic writers, and those ... -
A review of 'Irish Women at Work 1930–1960. By Elizabeth Kiely and Máire Leane' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)This exploration of Munster women’s experience in the workplace is based on the stories of forty-two women, representing a broad spectrum of generational, social and employment backgrounds. It is one of two linked outcomes ... -
A review of 'Women of the House: Women's Household Work in Ireland 1922-1961. Discourses, Experiences and Memories by Caitriona Clear'
(Galway Archaeological & Historical Society, 2001)This study is based on exhaustive research in government departmental correspondence and reports, folklore records, newspapers, handbooks, periodicals and prescriptive literature, as well as on the personal testimonies of ...