Research Catalog

Title

My self, my muse : Irish women poets reflect on life and art / edited by Patricia Boyle Haberstroh.

Publication

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle.

Description

xiii, 167 pages : portraits; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Irish studies

Uniform Title

Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Subjects

• Women and literature > Ireland > History > 20th century
• English poetry > Irish authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Ireland > In literature
• Irish poetry > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• English poetry > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Poetry > Authorship
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Poets, Irish > 20th century > Biography
• Women poets, Irish > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-163) and index.

Contents

Prologue: Not Your Muse / Paula Meehan -- Introduction / Patricia Boyle Haberstroh -- J'ai Mal a nos Dents -- Nuns: A Subject for a Woman Writer / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain -- Weakness -- "Between the Snow and the Huge Roses" / Mary O'Malley -- In Memoriam Elly Ni Dhomhnaill (1884-1963) -- Ce Leis Tu? / Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill -- Crypt -- An Appetite for Fasting? / Catherine Byron -- The Mahonys Observed -- Married to the Enemy / Eithne Strong -- From Anna Liffey -- The Irish Woman Poet: Her Place in Irish Literature / Eavan Boland -- Apple -- Coming of Age / Joan Newmann -- Night -- The Poetry of What Happens / Moya Cannon -- Crystal Night -- Rescuers and White Cloaks: Diary, 1968-1969 -- Epilogue: Poetry Doesn't Pay / Rita Ann Higgins.

ISBN

• 0815629095 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0815629109 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00068772

OCLC

• ocm45604002
• SCSB-4162508

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries