Bøger af Hilary Pyle

Described by Yeats as 'the nearest ... they have to a true poet' Mitchell (1866-1926) rebelled against privileged society and the Protestant Church. Dublin from the Easter Rising, the signing of the Treaty and the Civil War is seen through her eyes. Objective despite her republican views, she lampooned contemporary politics and the literary world.

The artist Frances Georgiana Chenevix Trench, better known as Cesca, kept a detailed diary of her involvement in the nationalist movement as a member of Cumann na mBan, as well as a personal account of her presence in the Howth gun-running incident and the events of Easter Week 1916.

Kate Cullen's riveting account of the close-knit life of Protestant Ireland, a society absorbed in its own triumphs and misfortunes, in its religion and fashions, and yet conscious that history was being made. During the 1840s she lived in Dublin and visited Sligo, Donegal and Leitrim. She witnessed the Famine, though was cushioned from it.