Gender, Race and Publishers in Irish Times Poetry Reviews 2013-2018

RESEARCH PIONEERS: A Series Number 4: Heidi Hansson

Irish Women's Writing (1880-1920) Network

"Only the Dead Can be Forgiven": Contemporary Women Poets and Environmental Melancholia by Lucy Collins

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Collins, L 2017 ‘Only the Dead Can Be Forgiven’: Contemporary Women Poets and Environmental Melancholia. C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 5(1): 3, pp. 1–21, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/ c21.12 Published 30 January 2017 Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the CreativeCommons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4. ...

RESEARCH PIONEERS: A Series Number 3: James H. Murphy

Irish Women's Writing (1880-1920) Network

A series of interviews by scholars who have focused on Irish Women's writing 1880 through 1920 gave interviews regarding such scholarship.

'I Am Not Yet Delivered of the Past': The Poetry of Blanaid Salkeld by Dr. Moynagh Sullivan

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Originally published in Irish University Review , Vol. 33, No. 1, Special Issue: New Perspectives on the Irish Literary Revival (Spring - Summer, 2003), pp. 182-200 (19 pages) Irish University Review Online URL : https://www.jstor.org/journal/irisunivrevi Edinburgh University Press Online URL : https://www.jstor.org/publisher/eup

Why Uncomplicated Recovery Isn't Enough: Rhoda Coghill, Her Letters, and the Fired! Movement.

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Features Honest Ulsterman (June 2020). The feature includes a reproduction of the Coghill poem 'Hail Posterity', a discussion on the setting up of Fired! and allusions to the health of women poets who suffered possibly somatisation-related disorders. The poets who included Coghill were aware that their work was not valued, nor would it make it into the wider conversations about Irish poetry. The b ...

Hidden Collections: The Value of Irish literary archives

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

"Yet in spite of a deepening interest in the work of Irish women writers, reinvigorated by #WakingTheFeminists (2016) and ‘ Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon’ (2017), the archival profile of individual women writers has not been significantly raised. Fired! draws particular attention to the neglect of earlier generations of Irish women poets, and to the fact that their work is both out of pri ...

Periodical Codes: ‘Centre’, ‘Margin’ and Gender in Poetry Ireland Review During the early 1980s

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Keywords : Field Theory, Irish Studies, Gender, Periodical Studies, Twentieth Century Contemporary Poetry “Periodical Codes: ‘Centre’, ‘Margin’ and Gender in Poetry Ireland Review during the early 1980s” by Laura Loftus 4th Annual Postgraduate Conference, Prague, 2018 URL : https://www.academia.edu/42800122/Periodical_Codes_Centre_Margin_and_Gender_in_Poetry_Ireland_Review_During_the_early_1980s?e ...

RESEARCH PIONEERS: A Series

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

The publication in 2002 of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Women’s Writing and Traditions volumes 4 and 5 was a watershed moment in Irish literary history. Gerardine Meaney was among the principal co-editors of this endeavour, which evolved in response to the failure of the initial three volumes of The Field Day Anthology to dedicate due attention to women’s contribution to Irish literat ...

RESEARCH PIONEERS: A Series

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

About the Research Pioneers Series by Anna Pilz & Whitney Standlee, "Evidence of the surge in interest in Irish women’s writing came recently during a conference staged by the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, which celebrated its 50th anniversary at Trinity College Dublin in July 2019. This conference brought together a global community of scholars to reflect on the to ...

The Irish Women Poets of Elliptical Movements

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Irish Women Poets, an Elliptical Movements Category Lizzie Twigg: Irish Woman Poet Number 101 URL: https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/lizzie-twigg-irish-woman-poet-number-100/ Henrietta Nethercott: Irish Woman Poet URL: https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/henrietta-nethercott-irish-woman-poet/ Lucy Spring-Rice: Irish Woman Poet URL: https://ellipticalmovements.wo ...

MEAS, Measuring Equality in the Arts Sector: Literature in Ireland

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

MEAS , Measuring Equality in the Arts Sector was established in 2018. From their website: Interim Reports MEAS prepares interim reports focused on monitoring equality in the literary arts in Ireland, and is open to proposals regarding the preparation of similar reports examining the arts sector in Ireland more generally. These interim reports are subject to revision and finalised versions are publ ...

Tackling the catastrophic canonical neglect of Irish women poets and writers (Irish Times)

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

A response to articles by Sinead Gleeson " A profound deafness to the female voice (The Irish Times, April 18th, 2018) and Deirdre Falvey "“ Two-thirds of published poets are male, so does poetry have a gender issue? ” (The Irish Times, August 17th, 2019) URL : https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-profound-deafness-to-the-female-voice-1.3467144 This article was originally published as ' The ...

Ewart Map Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The Ewart Map Collection is one of 3 core map collections held by Special Collections at Queen's University Belfast. It was originally assembled by Belfast collector and linen merchant, Lavens M. Ewart J. P. (1845-1898). It was formally presented to Queen's University in 1954 by Ewart's grandchildren, Dr. Vivian Lutwyche, Dr. Violet Lutwyche, and Miss Lenore Dawson. A number of complementary maps ...

The Jewish Gazette

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The opening paragraph of the first Jewish Gazette editorial neatly summarises the aims: "Briefly, our purpose is to record and comment on Jewish activities in Ireland in every sphere, whether charitable, religious, cultural, or Zionist; to crystallise Jewish opinion in Ireland on subjects of controversial or general communal interest; and also to act as the forum from which every shade of Jewish o ...

Belfast Jewish Record

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The Record begins as a monthly magazine published by and for the Belfast Jewish community in 1954, gradually reducing to three issues per year by 2015. It offers a fascinating insight into an important but often overlooked community in Northern Ireland. Issues of the Belfast Jewish Record from 1954-2015 are currently available online: http://digital-library.qub.ac.uk/digital/collection/p15979coll2 ...

Website Archive (2019)

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Archived pages from the Fired! Irish Women Poets website URL : https://thepledgearchived.home.blog/

Murphy family, Ballinamona collection

Tipperary Studies

This is a collection of family and estate papers from the Murphys of Ballinamona. The official Return of Owners of Land published in 1876 lists William Murphy of Ballinamona as having an estate of 856.75 acres. The family continued at Ballinamona until the death of Kathleen Murphy in 1975, the last of the family. What made the Murphy family different from their ‘Big House’ neighbours and which giv ...

Poor Law Union Records

Tipperary Studies

In 1838 the Irish Poor Law Act was passed, introducing an entirely new system of state welfare in Ireland. The result was the establishment of over one hundred Poor Law Unions throughout the country. Each Union had a Workhouse, financed by the payment of rates on landholders in the Union. The vast bulk of the Poor Law Union (PLU) sources comprise Minute and Rate Books. Minute Books contain the rec ...

Fired! Bibliography

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

This bibliography was collated by Laura Loftus. First published and made accessible Via the RASCAL website. Related papers (URLs) http://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/fired-irish-women-poets-and-canon/pledge-related-documents-0 http://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/fired-irish-women-poets-and-canon/pledge-critical-works-cited http://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/fired-irish-women-poets-and-canon/wh ...

Now I am a tower of Darkness; Emerging genealogies by Walt Hunter

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Emerging genealogies WALT HUNTER The most interesting thing I read during a weekend of convalescence, under a March sun that seemed surprised at its own intensity, was this interview with Emma Penney on the website The Bogman's Cannon about an Irish modernist poet, Freda Laughton. Although Laughton was born in 1907, I feature the interview and her poems here because critical genealogies of twentie ...

New Irish Poetry Anthology of Essays receives accusations of sexism

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Published / Digitised / Open Access / Lagan Online Digital article on The Cambridge Companion To Irish Poets (P ublished 30th November, 2017 ) ISBN: 978-1108414197, price £26.99 Lagan Online URL: http://laganonline.co/new-irish-poetry-anthology-of-essays-receives-accusations-of-sexism/ Related Page URL : http://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/fired-irish-women-poets-and-canon/anthologies-show-lack-r ...

The Pledge [Related Documents]

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Keywords: streaming options, xml , torrent, docx , meta. sqlite , meta.xml, Fired!, digital access, works cited, A ilbhe Darcy , the pledge, women poets, Irish women poets, canonical exclusion

Dunn Family Collection

Ward Irish Music Archives

The Dunn Family Collection, c. 1904 - c. 1935 Donated to WIMA by David K. Dunn, this collection contains the manuscripts, books, sheet music, recordings, artifacts and ephemera collected by Michael J. Dunn. Musician and instrument maker/repairer Michael J. Dunn (1855 - 1935), also a captain of the Milwaukee Fire Department, was a contemporary and associate of the famed Irish music collector, Franc ...

The Pledge [Signatories]

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Published / Digitised / Open Access Landing Page for The Pledge A list of signatories to a pledge of non-participation in literary activities including conferences, reviews, anthologies and journals that do not make good faith efforts to increase gender-participation in Irish poetry and in the literary arts. URL : https://thepledgearchived.home.blog/

Anthologies show lack of representation from female Irish writers

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Published / Digitised / Open Access / Lagan Online URL: http://laganonline.co/anthologies-show-lack-of-representation-for-female-irish-writers/ Lagan Online investigates current and historical anthological exclusion of Irish Women Poets.

Why Has Poet Lola Ridge Disappeared? On The Historical Erasure Of Political Women Artists

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Published / Digitised / Open Access URL: https://lithub.com/why-has-poet-lola-ridge-disappeared/ Terese Svoboda on her biography of Lola Ridge Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic, and videomaker. She is the author of five collections of poetry, five no ...

I am a poet without a landscape, a woman poet without a narrative heritage. (Irish Times)

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

A meditation on publishing in an Irish Poetry landscape which has disavowed the woman poet's voice in numerous iterations throughout the writing life of the poet, by C. Murray for the Irish Times. The landscape of Irish women's poetry is fragmented and incomplete, we lack familiarity with the poet's image and with their words. The problems extend into anthologizing, indexing and archiving the work ...

"The Influence of Absences" by Moyra Donaldson

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Moyra Donaldson delineates her response to Alex Pryce, “Ambiguous Silences? Women in Anthologies of Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry”, Peer English 9 (2014). This is memoir /personal response and pertinent to Moyra Donaldson's input to and support of Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon. The piece is published/ digitised /open access (online) URL: http://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/fired-iri ...

A prosaic lack of women in the Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Media : Published / Digitised / Open Access Irish Times Article, Feature Title: 'A prosaic lack of women in the Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets' by Mary O'Donnell Article URL : https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-prosaic-lack-of-women-in-the-cambridge-companion-to-irish-poets-1.3336413 Cambridge Companion, Irish Poets, Women Poets, Teaching Editions, Field Day Anthology, Preamble, Irish ...

The Pledge: Critical Works Cited

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Published / Digitised / Open Access Published: The Pledge website at URL : https://awomanpoetspledge.com/critical-works-cited/ Related Papers URL : http://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/fired-irish-women-poets-and-canon/fired-bibliography

The White Blackbird; The Marginalisation of Irish Women Poets from Literary Magazines During the 1980s

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Article URL: http://humag.co/features/the-white-blackbird

Alex Pryce Papers

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

“Selective traditions: feminism and the poetry of Colette Bryce, Leontia Flynn and Sinead Morrissey”, University of Oxford, DPhil (2014). URL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3cff3422-3046-48d1-b765-05a815963ecd

A Meditation on Ireland, Women, Poetry and Subversion

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Published, The Honest Ulsterman (February 2018) Online URL: http://humag.co/features/a-meditation-on-ireland-women-poetry-and-subversion#.Vt3NW1d6x4B.twitter Related link: http://www.rascal.ac.uk/institutions/fired-irish-women-poets-and-canon/why-uncomplicated-recovery-isnt-enough-rhoda-coghill

Irish Women Poets [Papers]

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Irish Women Poets, Tradition, Generational Influences, Colette Bryce, Leontia Flynn, Sinéad Morrissey

Dublin Castle Collection

Houses of the Oireachtas Library

The Dublin Castle collection (6,800 items) contains a variety of formats including historical monographs, maps, periodicals, cartoons, prints and pamphlets. The collection is particularly distinct in its holdings of visual and periodical material. Given the wide range of publication dates, major themes and topics of Irish history are represented. These include materials relating to: The 1641 rebel ...

Irish Women Poets [Papers]

National Library of Ireland

Now I am a Tower of Darkness: A Critical History of Poetry by Women in Ireland challenges the critical reception of Eavan Boland and the restrictive criteria, developed in the 1970s, under which poetry by women in Ireland has been assessed. She considers the subversive nature of women’s poetry written between 1921 and 1950, and calls into question the critical assumption that Eavan Boland represen ...

The Pledge [Related Documents]

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

The Pledge https://thepledgearchived.home.blog/ & associated forms garnered responses to the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets ( Cambridge University Press, 2017 )

Irish Women Poets [Pamphlets]

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Geraldine Plunkett Dillon ' "Magnificat" Published The Candle Press, Dublin, 1917 The Internet Archive [PDF/ DAISY, EPUB, KINDLE] formats Open Access URL : https://archive.org/details/magnificat00pluniala/page/n6 Keywords Pamphlets, Irish Women Poets, Irish Writing, The Internet Archive, Geraldine Plunkett Dillon, The Candle Press, Dublin, 1917

Alex Pryce Papers

Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon

Music Library

Libraries NI, Belfast Central Library

Currently, there are 121 titles in the collection. The recorded music collection consists of 19,000 CDs, 1,500 DVDs, 20,000 vinyl records and 500 videos. All genres of classical and popular music are represented in these formats. All CDs, DVDs and a selection of books and scores are in the open access area of the music reading room. The majority of the printed stock is held in closed access. The N ...

Hibernica Collection

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

The Hibernica Collection, or Henry Collection as it was previously known, is a substantial collection of monographs, periodicals and pamphlets of general Irish interest and/or origin, being strongest in history and literature, and also including works of Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton. Officially established in 1929 with a deposit of 1000 volumes from the personal library of R.M. Henry (Profess ...

Séamus Connolly papers

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Séamus Connolly papers document aspects of the music career of Irish traditional fiddle player Séamus Connolly. All materials were donated by Séamus Connolly. The collection highlights Connolly’s career as a performing artist as well as his commitment to preserving Irish traditional music through teaching and community outreach. The collection includes various printed materials, including post ...

Mary O'Hara papers

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

The Mary O'Hara papers document the performances, public career, and personal life of Irish soprano and harpist Mary O'Hara. The collection highlights her early rise to fame in the 1950s until her entrance to Stanbrook Abbey in 1962, as well her return to her music career in 1974 until her retirement in 1994. O'Hara was married to the American poet Richard Selig from 1956 until his death in 1957, ...

Muise Family collection of Cape Breton and Irish music

Boston College, John J. Burns Library

This collection of recordings includes impromptu music sessions that took place in the Muise home in Boston. The recordings document a segment of traditional Cape Breton and Irish music making from circa 1956 through circa 2000. Many of the recordings were made by Johnny and Mary Muise at their home in Dorchester and, later, Roslindale. The collection also includes other recordings from unknown so ...

CAIN

CAIN Project

CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) is a web-based resource which provides a wide range of information and source documents about the Northern Ireland conflict from 1968 to the present day. This information is a combination of text that was specially written for the CAIN site and previously published material, which includes the full-text of important documents, and extracts from books and rep ...

Northern Ireland Place Name Project Sound Archive

Northern Ireland Place-Name Project

Collection of sound recordings and associated transcripts compiled by the Northern Ireland Place name Project at Queen's University Belfast. Established in 1987, the Northern Ireland Place Name Project was set up to "research the origin of all names of settlements and physical features in Northern Ireland appearing on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale map; to indicate their meaning and to note an ...

Special Collections, Main Collections

Queen's University Belfast, Special Collections

There are three main collections grouped by date. These include Early Printed Books (Pre-1701), 18th Century Books and Pamphlets (including the Foster Pamphlet Collection) and 19th and 20th Century book collection of first editions and other rarities. The subject-based collections consist of the Hibernica Collection of books relating to and/or published in Ireland, the MacDouall Collection of earl ...

Government Publications

Ulster University, Jordanstown

Parliamentary legal and other government publications from the UK and Northern Ireland