The Overlooked Wives Behind Famous Irish Lives
Ten remarkable women step out from the margins in this engaging work of Irish history, which explores the labour, loyalty and intelligence behind famous Irish lives. Thoughtful and often moving, it will appeal to readers interested in women’s history and the stories too often left untold.
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The Overlooked Wives Behind Famous Irish Lives
Ten remarkable women step out from the margins in this engaging work of Irish history, which explores the labour, loyalty and intelligence behind famous Irish lives. Thoughtful and often moving, it will appeal to readers interested in women’s history and the stories too often left untold.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Want Irish history that brings overlooked women back into view.
- Are interested in the lives behind famous names and public achievements.
- Care about marriage, partnership and the hidden labour behind political and literary history.
- Prefer accessible biography that is thoughtful, revealing and easy to read.
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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