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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13110-1 — a History of Modern Irish Women's Literature Edited by Heather Ingman , Clíona Ó Gallchoir Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13110-1 — A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature Edited by Heather Ingman , Clíona Ó Gallchoir Index More Information Index Page numbers in bold indicate a detailed reference Abbey heatre, 126, 136, 144, 153, 313, 315 Backscheider, Paula, 51 abortion, 9, 10, 15, 124, 245, 261, 262, 273, Backus, Margot, 237 315, 429, 431 Balfour, Mary, 64 abuse, 193, 260 ‘Fairy Queen, he’, 64 domestic, 124, 253, 287, 340 Hope: A Poetical Essay; with Various Other institutional, 9, 394 Poems, 66 of children, 15, 267, 287, 291, 428, 430, 432 Banim, John and Michael (The Banim Act of Union, 7, 59 Brothers), 64 Adams, Bernard (Bishop of Limerick), 29 banshee. See bean sí Æ. See Russell, George Banville, John, 206 Aisling Ghéar heatre Company, 350 Barber, Mary, 51 AkiDwA, 400 Poems on Several Occasions, 51, 52 Akinjobi, Olutoyin Pamela, 399 ‘Written for my Son, and Spoken by Him at Herstory: migration stories of African women in School’, 52 Ireland (editor), 400 ‘Written for my Son, and Spoken by him on Akpoveta, Ebun Joseph, 399, 400 irst putting on his Breeches’, 52 Trapped: Prison Without Wall, 442 bardic schools, 19 Alcock, Deborah, 99 Bardwell, Leland Alexander, Mrs. See Hector, Annie French Diferent Kinds of Love, 287 Amharclann de hÍde, 349 Girl On a Bicycle, 265 amhrán, 19 Restless Life, A, 384 Anderson, Linda hat London Winter, 265 To Stay Alive, 368 here We Have Been, 265 Anglo- Irish, the, 7, 37, 207, 266, 283, 384, 433 Barlow, Jane Antares Skorpios (pseudonym). See Barlow, Jane Creel of Irish Stories, A, 140 anthologies, 93, 97, 184, 198, 294 History of a World of Immortals without a Anú Productions, 10 God, 140 Laundry, 10, 322, 325 Irish Idylls, 140, 143, 280 Arlen House, 198, 260 Irish Ways, 140 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 326 Kerrigan’s Quality, 101 Attic Press, 260 Barnard, Toby, 150 Atwood, Margaret Barnett, Anne Alias Grace, 420 Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine, he, 375 Austen, Jane, 61 Barr, Fiona autobiography, 5, 27 ‘Wall- Reader, he’, 289 and nation, 384 Barrington, Margaret Blasket, 339 My Cousin Justin, 366 Gaeltacht, 338, 345 Battier, Henrietta, 54 spiritual, 27 Bean na hÉireann, 136, 141 473 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13110-1 — A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature Edited by Heather Ingman , Clíona Ó Gallchoir Index More Information 474 Index bean sí, 21 Object Lessons, 6, 385 Beckett, Mary Outside History, 297 Belfast Woman, A, 288 book history, 4 Give hem Stones, 270, 368 Borthwick, Norma Beckett, Samuel, 174 Leabhairín na Leanbh, 340 Behrendt, Stephen, 65 Boss, Owen, 325 Bell, he, 170, 179, 210 Bourke, Angela, 40, 417 Bennett, Andrew, 206 Bourke, Hannah Maria Bennett, Clare- Louise O’Donoghue, Prince of Killarney, 65 Pond, 292 Bourke, Siobhan, 316 Big House novel, the, 106, 192, 194–95, 197, Bowden, Martha, 48 210, 260, 271 Bowen, Elizabeth, 13, 14, 106, 187, 204–23 in Northern Ireland, 372–75 ‘Back Drawing- Room, he’, 283 Binchy, Maeve, 261 Bowen’s Court, 211 Circle of Friends, 273 Death of the Heart, he, 207, 214, 218–19 Dublin 4, 287 ‘Disinherited, he’, 216 Firely Summer, 273 Encounters, 208 Light a Penny Candle, 273 Eva Trout, 221, 222 Bingham, Margaret (Countess of Lucan), 54 Friends and Relations, 214–15 Verses on the present state of Ireland, 53 ‘Happy Autumn Fields, he’, 282 Bird, Charlie Heat of the Day, he, 200, 206, 209, 210, 219–21 Day in May, A: Real Lives, True Stories, 392 ‘Her Table Spread’, 283 Blackburne, E. Owens, 101 Hotel, he, 208, 212 Heart of Erin, he, an Irish Story of To- day, 108 House in Paris, he, 210, 214, 217–18 Molly Carew, 102 Last September, he, 208, 209, 212–14, 221 Way Women Love, he, 103 Little Girls, he, 208, 221 Blackstaf Press, 198 Look At All hose Roses, 283 Blackwood, Caroline short stories, 282–84 Great Granny Webster, 372 ‘Summer Night’, 283 Blackwood, Helena (née Sheridan, baroness of Sunday Afternoon’, 283 Duferin and Clandeboye), 79, 91 To the North, 208, 215–16 ‘Lament of the Irish Emigrant, he’, 79 ‘Tommy Crans, he’, 217 Blair, Kirstie, 90 World of Love, A, 210, 221 Blaugdone, Barbara, 28 Boyd, Pom, 316 Blessington, Lady. See Gardiner, Marguerite Boylan, Clare (Margaret) (née Power, Countess of Black Baby, 268 Blessington) Concerning Virgins, 287 blogs, 15, 399 Holy Pictures, 268 Blood, Gertrude Elizabeth. See Campbell, Lady Home Rule, 268 Colin Last Resorts, 268 Blundell, Mary Sweetman. See Francis, M. E. Nail on the Head, A, 287 Blythe, Ernest, 315, 348 Bracken, Claire, 428, 437, 441 body, the, 9, 199, 256, 294, 297 Braidotti, Rosi, 222 in performance, 315 Breen, Mary, 237 in theatre, 10 Brennan, Deirdre, 355 Boehmer, Elleke, 118, 123 Brennan, Maeve, 285–86, 417 Boland, Eavan, 3, 6, 12, 309 ‘Devil in Us, he’, 285 ‘Anna Lifey’, 299 Visitor, he, 285, 410, 422 ‘Emigrant Irish, he’, 301, 412 Brew, Margaret, 100 In Her Own Image, 297 Burtons of Dunroe, he, 100 ‘Irish Childhood in England, An: 1951’, 413 Chronicles of Castle Cloyne, he, 100 ‘Lava Cameo’, 299 Brighton, Pam, 326 ‘Mise Eire’, 413 Bristow, Amelia, 61 ‘Mother Ireland’, 299 Maniac, he, 61 ‘Muse Mother’, 299 British empire, the, 7, 115 Night Feed, 297 in iction, 100, 115, 263 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13110-1 — A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature Edited by Heather Ingman , Clíona Ó Gallchoir Index More Information Index 475 Briver, Mrs, 26 canon, the, 2, 3, 8, 10, 14, 16, 171, 247, 256, Brogan, Patricia Burke, 10 277, 410, 429 Eclipsed, 10, 322, 324, 395 Anglocentric, 31 Brontë, Charlotte, 99 national, 4 Jane Eyre, 99 poetic, 93 Brooke, Charlotte, 7, 55 caoineadh, 20, 21, 39, 40 Mäon: A Tale, 54 Carbery, Ethna, 93 Reliques of Irish Poetry, 54 journalism, 141 Brooke, Stopford, 88 Carleton, William, 60 Browne and Nolan, 155 Carpenter, Lynette, 252 Browne, Frances, 99 Carr, Marina, 329 Granny’s Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy By the Bog of Cats, 329 Times, 151 Phaedra Backwards, 329 Hidden Sin, he, 99 Portia Coughlan, 329 My Share of the World, 99 Carson, Jan Browne, Mabel, 26 Malcolm Orange Disappears, 375 Browne, Mother Mary Bonaventure, 22 Carter, Angela, 125 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Casey, John Keegan, 77 Sonnets from the Portuguese, 134 Casey, Juanita Bryce, Colette Horse of Selene, he, 416 ‘1981’, 308 Casey, Maude Whole and Rain- domed Universe, he, 308 Over the Water, 416 Buckley, Christine, 394 Casserley, Anne Bunbury, Selina, 72, 99 Barney the Donkey, 155 Bunting, Edward, 66 Whins on Knockattan, he, 155 Burke, Edmund, 69–70 Cath Finntrágha (he Battle of Venry), 22 Burke- Kennedy, Mary Elizabeth, 314, 316 Cathleen Ni Houlihan, 135, 251, 295 Burnell, Eleanora, 30 Catholic church, the, 90, 124, 236, 252, 291, Burns, Anna 374, 428 No Bones, 371 Catholic Emancipation, 59, 72, 87 Butler, Eleanor (Countess of Desmond), 25 Catholicism, 39, 79, 87, 88, 236, 247, 251 Butler, Elizabeth (née Preston, Countess of Celtic Tiger, the, 9, 15, 386, 411, 421, 427, Ormond), 25 433 Butler, Sarah, 42 Celticism, 90 Irish Tales, 42 censorship, 13, 14, 143, 170, 188, 189, 190, Buttimer, Neil, 39 193, 200, 230, 235, 238, 246, 248, 252, Byers, Margaret, 126 320, 327 Byron, Kristine, 246, 247 Censorship of Publications Act (1929), 155, 170, 230 Cafyn, Kathleen Mannington (née Hunt). See Chadamoyo, Neltah, 400 Iota Chapone, Sarah, 41 Cahill, Susan, 421 Hardship of English Laws in Relation to Wives, Caitilín Dubh, 20 he, 41 Caldwell, Lucy, 376 Charabanc heatre Company, 325 All the Beggars Riding, 376 Charles II (King), 25 Meeting Point, he, 376 chick lit, 15, 437, 439 Where hey Were Missed, 376 Children’s Press, the, 160 Callaghan, Mary Rose, 261 children’s literature, 15, 142, 149–63, 191 Mothers, 273 ‘Big House’ in, 152 Cambridge History of Irish Literature, historical iction, 158, 160 he, 4, 5 Irish- language, 158, 340–41 Campbell, Lady Colin (née Gertrude Elizabeth Northern Ireland Troubles in, 159–60 Blood), 98 picturebooks, 153 Cannon, Moya proselytising, 149 ‘Between the Jigs and the Reels’, 303 Revivalist themes in, 153 ‘Treasure’, 303 rural settings in, 156 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-13110-1 — A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature Edited by Heather Ingman , Clíona Ó Gallchoir Index More Information 476 Index children’s literature (cont.) Costello, Mary (b. 1955) school stories, 117, 154 Titanic Town, 327, 368 social issues in, 162, 163 Costello, Mary (b. 1963) Church of Ireland, 79 Academy Street, 418 citizenship, 441 China Factory, he, 292 Civil Rights movement (Ireland), 370, 390 Coughlan, Patricia, 3, 339, 427, 429 Civil War, the, 187, 188, 194, 366 Counter- Reformation, the, 31 Claidheamh Soluis, An, 342 Cousins, James, 142 Clarke, Austin, 123 Cox, Walter, 62 Clarke, Frances Bellenden. See Grand, Sarah Tears of Erin, he, 62 Clarke, Justice Maureen Harding Coyle, Kathleen, 190 Report on the Symphysiotomy Redress Flock of Birds, A, 13, 195–97, 366 Scheme, 398 Craoibhin Aoibhinn, An. See Hyde, Douglas Clarke, Olivia, 60 Cregan, Máirín Irishwoman, he, 60 Old John, 155 class, 97, 104, 114, 132, 204, 206, 265, 323, Creighton, Kelly 365, 384, 386, 387, 392 Bones of Us, he, 378 Classical Irish period, 18 crime iction, 15, 191, 438 Coghill, Rhoda, 168, 170, 182–84 Croker, B. M., 100 Bright Hillside, he, 182 Croker, homas Crofton, 63 ‘Burren, Co. Clare’, 182 Researches in the South of Ireland, 63 ‘In the City’, 182 Cromwell, Oliver, 25, 28 ‘Summer in Sheephaven’, 182 Crone, Anne ‘To His Ghost, Seen after Delirium’,
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