Book Launch and Public Lecture:What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s

Thu, 05 May 2016 17:00:00 IST - Thu, 05 May 2016 18:30:00 IST, 17.00

At The Hardiman Research Building, G011 Seminar Room

Organised by Gender ARC and the Centre for Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway

Gender ARC and the Centre for Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to the following Book Launch and Public Lecture: What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s Presented by Dr Caitriona Clear, Senior Lecturer in History at NUI Galway to mark the launch of her upcoming book: Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s With an introduction by poet and playwright Mary Coll Date: Thursday 5 May 2016 Time: 5.00pm - 6.30pm Venue: The Hardiman Research Building, G011 Seminar Room Light refreshments - all welcome …………………………..


………………….………… Caitriona Clear is a Senior Lecturer in modern Irish and European history at NUI, Galway. Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s, (Bloomsbury 2016) is her fourth book, following Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland 1850-1922 (Manchester University Press 2007), Women of the House: women’s household work in Ireland 1926-1961 (Irish Academic Press 2000) and Nuns in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Gill & Macmillan 1987). She has also published research on homelessness in post-Famine Ireland, Irish women during the First World War, twentieth-century Irish women writers, and clothes and fashion in Ireland. She is a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge History of Ireland edited by Thomas Bartlett. Mary Coll is a Limerick poet, playwright and broadcaster. Publications include All Things Considered (Salmon 2002) numerous contributions to RTE Radio One and RTE Lyric FM. She has had stage productions of Excess Baggage (2007) and Anything But Love (2010) at The Belltable Arts Centre, radio plays commissioned by RTE Drama On One, lyrics for the Choral Work ‘Spirestone’ and two art song cycles in association with the composer Fiona Linnane, a new play Diamond Rocks: Sunset, commissioned by The Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick (2014) and a second collection of poems entitled Silver due for publication in 2016. For questions about this event, please contact NUI Galway’s Gender ARC Convenor and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Women’s Studies: Dr Niamh Reilly, niamh.reilly@nuigalway.ie



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