The soc.culture.irish Reading List

Books recommended by various denizens of soc.culture.irish. Suggestions welcome.

Recommended by Karen E. Dennis

Land of Women: Tales of Sex & Gender From Early Ireland.
Lisa M. Bitel
1996, Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0-8014-3095-X [hardbound], 0-8014-8544-4 [paperback]

"Women & Piracy in Ireland: from Gráinne O'Malley to Anne Bonny"
J. C. Appleby, pgs. 53-68 in
Women in Early Modern Ireland
ed., Margaret MacCurtain & Mary O'Dowd
1991, Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0-7486-0223-2

Recommended by s.c.i.'s own Pirate Queen

Granuaille, The Life and Times
of Grace O'Malley c. 1530 - 1603
Anne Chambers
ISBN 0-86327-631-8

She Captains
Heroines and Hellions of the Sea
Joan Druett
ISBN 0-684-85690-5

Women of Ireland,
A Biographic Dictionary
by Kit and Cyril Ó Céirín.
ISBN 0-937702-16-1


29.10.2003
Tom Walsh