Remarkable Irish wives behind famous historic men
Nicola Pierce brings ten overlooked Irish wives out of the shadows, from Matilda Tone to Sinéad de Valera and George Yeats. Through vivid, accessible biography she shows how these women powered the lives, work and legends of the men history remembered first.
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Great Irish Wives
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Remarkable Irish wives behind famous historic men
Nicola Pierce brings ten overlooked Irish wives out of the shadows, from Matilda Tone to Sinéad de Valera and George Yeats. Through vivid, accessible biography she shows how these women powered the lives, work and legends of the men history remembered first.
- Book Synopsis
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Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been overshadowed by those of men. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of their husband's work, as collaborators, muses, carers and managers of the family domain.
Great Irish Wives shines a spotlight on ten such wives: Matilda Tone, Mary O'Connell, Constance Wilde, Charlotte Shaw, Emily Shackleton, Annette Carson, Sinéad de Valera, Margaret Clarke, George Yeats and Beatrice Behan.
The men in this book are household names, from Wolfe Tone and Daniel O'Connell to Oscar Wilde and Brendan Behan, and they all have one thing in common: they married women who enabled them to pursue their dreams, even if that meant courting death or outrage.
Nicola Pierce tells the stories of these truly remarkable women.
- About The Author
- Nicola Pierce published her first book for children, Spirit of the Titanic, to rave reviews and five printings within its first twelve months. City of Fate, her second book, transported the reader deep into the Russian city of Stalingrad during World War II. The novel was shortlisted for the Warwickshire School Library Service Award, 2014. Nicola went on to bring seventeenth-century Ireland vividly to life in Behind the Walls (2015), a rich emotional novel set in the besieged city of Derry in 1689, followed by Kings of the Boyne (2016), a moving and gritty account capturing the Battle of the Boyne (1690), which was shortlisted for the Literacy Association of Ireland (LAI) awards. In 2018 Nicola delved in to the true stories of the passengers, crew and the legacy of the fated ship Titanic, in her illustrated book of the same name. To read more about Nicola, go to her Facebook page, www.facebook.com/NicolaPierce-Author and on Twitter @NicolaPierce3.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781788494779
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The O'Brien Press, (08 September 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 588 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 225 x 155 x 28.7 mm
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