Read on Twitter
Ok so better late than never (5 days behind the #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 here - hey, we& #39;re on #WestCork time).
So, book with a twist: Elizabeth Bowen& #39;s _Eva Trout_ (several, in fact, as the subtitle "changing scenes" suggests).
So, book with a twist: Elizabeth Bowen& #39;s _Eva Trout_ (several, in fact, as the subtitle "changing scenes" suggests).
2. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 I& #39;ve been looking forward to the third instalment in Lisa McInerney& #39;s Glorious Heresies series, The Rules of Revelation, ever since hearing her read from her work-in-progress @aedei_es two years ago - roll on May!
4. Book where mothers are important: Emma Donoghue& #39;s Room
5. Illness: I& #39;ve heard very good things about Louise Nealon& #39;s forthcoming novel, Snowflake, which asks questions about mental health - looking forward to reading that ...
6. #RIWC2021 (I& #39;m playing catch up here this morning!) another much-anticipated read from @EmmaDabiri
7. #RIWC2021 interesting times: Lia Mills brings the divided loyalties of early-twentieth-century Dublin into play in Fallen; the emotional landscape of c20 wars (shellshock, bereavement and their effect on whole families and communities) very sensitively handled too.
8."Now Spring Has Come" from George Egerton& #39;s iconic 1893 collection, Keynotes. This is one of her more didactic "New Womanish" narratives; it tells the story of the end of an affair, her fling with Knut Hamsun (1920 Nobel prize-winner), whose novel Sult [Hunger] she translated.
![8."Now Spring Has Come" from George Egerton& #39;s iconic 1893 collection, Keynotes. This is one of her more didactic "New Womanish" narratives; it tells the story of the end of an affair, her fling with Knut Hamsun (1920 Nobel prize-winner), whose novel Sult [Hunger] she translated.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyehBdpWEAAk221.jpg "8.\"Now Spring Has Come\" from George Egerton& #39;s iconic 1893 collection, Keynotes. This is one of her more didactic \"New Womanish\" narratives; it tells the story of the end of an affair, her fling with Knut Hamsun (1920 Nobel prize-winner), whose novel Sult [Hunger] she translated.")
9. Ceci n& #39;est pas un jeu de mots ... a book that brings me joy, as you can see from my very battered copy of her indispensable handbook for veg gardeners: Joy Larkcom, garden guru, honorary Irishwoman, and our lovely neighbour. https://www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/top-picks/interviews/joy-larkcom-interview/
https://www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/top-picks... href=" https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandoutdoors/arid-20451642.html">https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/...
https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/..." title="9. Ceci n& #39;est pas un jeu de mots ... a book that brings me joy, as you can see from my very battered copy of her indispensable handbook for veg gardeners: Joy Larkcom, garden guru, honorary Irishwoman, and our lovely neighbour. https://www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/top-picks... href=" https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandoutdoors/arid-20451642.html">https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/...">
https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/..." title="9. Ceci n& #39;est pas un jeu de mots ... a book that brings me joy, as you can see from my very battered copy of her indispensable handbook for veg gardeners: Joy Larkcom, garden guru, honorary Irishwoman, and our lovely neighbour. https://www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/top-picks... href=" https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandoutdoors/arid-20451642.html">https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/...">
10. Play @RoughMagicIRL powerful production of Hecuba by Marina Carr, dir. Lynn Parker 2019 @projectarts @DubTheatreFest https://www.roughmagic.ie/archive/hecuba/ ">https://www.roughmagic.ie/archive/h...
11. Book I could quote from (aka one of my abiding favourites): Paula Meehan& #39;s 1991 collection, The Man Who Was Marked by Winter.
12. Book set in a place I& #39;d like to visit? In the before-times, my answer would be the first of these (ie Cuzco and several other places in South America) but these days, I& #39;d be more than happy to get to Dublin!
13. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 an old favourite: best to go with my first love, research-wise, Kate O& #39;Brien (spot the missing titles - trapped in my office on campus).
14. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 none more beautiful, inside and out, than the new collection from @DoireannNiG
15. Derry Film & Video Co-Op& #39;s 1988 Mother Ireland documentary, dir. Anne Crilly. The film featured an interview with IRA member, Mairéad Farrell, shot in Gibraltar by the SAS, causing Channel 4 to pull the broadcast. https://youtu.be/3glM5PYoB7s ">https://youtu.be/3glM5PYoB...
... and yes, I know, I know but it *does* represent writing / film-making (and activism) by Irish women (right @MargoHarkin?) - moreover, seems to me that the entire list O& #39;Briens& #39;, Hoult& #39;s, Laverty& #39;s banned books has already been rehearsed today!
16. Book by an author I& #39;d love to have met: Anna Livia, activist and multilingual polymath, who brightened the - otherwise pretty grim - lesbian fiction options considerably for us in the early 1990s! https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/26/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007...
17. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 the TBR pile - SO many excellent new books by Irish women recently, we readers can& #39;t keep up! I& #39;ve latest from @JanCarson7280 and @NualaNiC on order too, already looking forward to both, and to this little lot ...
18. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 Elizabeth Bowen& #39;s young protagonists, spiky and knowing but vulnerable too, as they figure out how society works - we learn a lot about the world we& #39;ve made from the young people in The House in Paris.
Falling a bit behind with #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 this week! Combining 19&21 book you want to tell everyone about, and one with great photographs: Joy Larkcom& #39;s Creative Vegetable Gardening
20/22 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 (ie playing catch-up) anthology / poetry: Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi& #39;s _Writing Home_ anthology, which I& #39;ve used quite a bit in MA modules over the past year, and Leeanne Quinn& #39;s _Some Lives_ which I& #39;ve just recently begun to read and enjoy.
23 biography #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 Angela Bourke& #39;s studies of Maeve Brennan and Bridget Cleary: first-class Irish biographical writing.
24 #RIWC2021 periodical: our Elizabeth Bowen special issue of @IrishUniReview is just out, so ... Kudos to the IUR team @emiliepine, @lcollins232 & Paul Delaney. Emilie recently announced: "we want to read essays on these women [writers]; we want to publish them; send them in".
![24 #RIWC2021 periodical: our Elizabeth Bowen special issue of @IrishUniReview is just out, so ... Kudos to the IUR team @emiliepine, @lcollins232 & Paul Delaney. Emilie recently announced: "we want to read essays on these women [writers]; we want to publish them; send them in".](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ez2IItrWQAgSOpE.jpg "24 #RIWC2021 periodical: our Elizabeth Bowen special issue of @IrishUniReview is just out, so ... Kudos to the IUR team @emiliepine, @lcollins232 & Paul Delaney. Emilie recently announced: \"we want to read essays on these women [writers]; we want to publish them; send them in\".")
25. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 there& #39;s a whole life-world created in Maggie O& #39;Farrell& #39;s Hamnet, one of those books I had to consciously pull myself out of when forced to put it down - esp loved the representation of women& #39;s work and gardening, herbal remedies, bee-keeping, etc.
26. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 online events: @CuirtFestival 2020 threw us a lifeline early in the pandemic (nice job @sashadebuyl&al!); the upcoming @CorkMidsummer presents work from @deirdrekinahan @louiselowe3 Marina Carr, Anabelle Comyn, &al https://www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/to-the-lighthouse">https://www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/...
27. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 climate: Emily Lawless& #39;s Grania, The Story of an Island (1892), might be described as a foundational ecofeminist novel, set on Inishmaan (it& #39;s available to read gratis on the Project Gutenberg site https://dev.gutenberg.org/files/58443/58443-h/58443-h.htm)">https://dev.gutenberg.org/files/584...
28. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021di four books by authors you’d invite to a fantasy night out: given the year we& #39;ve just had, a night out with any of this lot - among others - would see me right!
