Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs / Women

Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published sixteen stories in The New Yorker. It was a prolific time for the writer, helped in no small part by her close working relationship...

The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books.One of the earliest known Scottish queens...

From every county in Ireland Bold, Brilliant & Bad draws together the stories of over 120 amazing Irish women. Marian Broderick is back to explore the histories of remarkable Irish Women in history....

Explore an historical event celebrating the achievements of Irish women for every single day of the year.

For over sixty years, Alice Taylor has lived in the village of Innishannon. But her childhood was spent on a farm in north Cork, near the Kerry border, and her memories of that homeplace are vivid. Here, she recalls the people and places from those days with her trademark warmth and wit.

Caught between these covers is the authentic, forthright voice of Christian Watt, servant girl, lady’s maid and fishwife. Born in 1833, her working life began in domestic service before the age of...

"I leaned over the edge to let anyone see and touch the medal that Northern Ireland had brought away from the Olympics. It wasn't mine, it was ours."In September 1972, after years of hard work, sacrifice...

"Writers live as the work dictates, a solitary, sometimes deeply frustrating life, with moments of secret joy when the sentence hits the note, gets the meaning exactly as required."For over five decades,...

A highly readable, in-depth analysis of the public life of Dame Margaret as wife of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. After a brief intro on her wartime public activities, the book brings to the fore her active political campaigning during Lloyd George's peacetime Premiership from 1918 to 1922.

The Horizontal Oak is an intensely moving and uplifting autobiography from acclaimed author an naturalist Polly Pullar. She reflects on how the love of nature has shaped her life, given her the strength to forgive and understand her parents, and help her find an equilibrium.