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Ok so better late than never (5 days behind the #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 here - hey, we're on #WestCork time).
So, book with a twist: Elizabeth Bowen's _Eva Trout_ (several, in fact, as the subtitle "changing scenes" suggests).
So, book with a twist: Elizabeth Bowen's _Eva Trout_ (several, in fact, as the subtitle "changing scenes" suggests).
2. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 I've been looking forward to the third instalment in Lisa McInerney'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!
3. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 book with a character you'd love to meet; no contest
4. Book where mothers are important: Emma Donoghue's Room
5. Illness: I've heard very good things about Louise Nealon's forthcoming novel, Snowflake, which asks questions about mental health - looking forward to reading that ...
6. #RIWC2021 (I'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'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'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'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'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.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandoutdoors/arid-20451642.html
https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandoutdoors/arid-20451642.html
10. Play @RoughMagicIRL powerful production of Hecuba by Marina Carr, dir. Lynn Parker 2019 @projectarts @DubTheatreFest https://www.roughmagic.ie/archive/hecuba/
11. Book I could quote from (aka one of my abiding favourites): Paula Meehan's 1991 collection, The Man Who Was Marked by Winter.
12. Book set in a place I'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'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'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'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.
... 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'Briens', Hoult's, Laverty's banned books has already been rehearsed today!
16. Book by an author I'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
17. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 the TBR pile - SO many excellent new books by Irish women recently, we readers can't keep up! I've latest from @JanCarson7280 and @NualaNiC on order too, already looking forward to both, and to this little lot ...
18. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 Elizabeth Bowen's young protagonists, spiky and knowing but vulnerable too, as they figure out how society works - we learn a lot about the world we'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's Creative Vegetable Gardening
20/22 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 (ie playing catch-up) anthology / poetry: Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi's _Writing Home_ anthology, which I've used quite a bit in MA modules over the past year, and Leeanne Quinn's _Some Lives_ which I've just recently begun to read and enjoy.
23 biography #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 Angela Bourke'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's a whole life-world created in Maggie O'Farrell'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'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
27. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021 climate: Emily Lawless's Grania, The Story of an Island (1892), might be described as a foundational ecofeminist novel, set on Inishmaan (it's available to read gratis on the Project Gutenberg site https://dev.gutenberg.org/files/58443/58443-h/58443-h.htm)
28. #ReadIrishWomenChallenge2021di four books by authors you’d invite to a fantasy night out: given the year we've just had, a night out with any of this lot - among others - would see me right!
