Wild Atlantic Women

Walking Ireland's West Coast

Gráinne Lyons (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2024 | 2nd edition
New Island Books (Verlag)
978-1-84840-928-6 (ISBN)

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A second-generation London Irishwoman walks the Wild Atlantic Way in the footsteps of eleven pioneering women, beginning with her great-grandmother, a lacemaker on Cape Clear Island, and including Ellen Hutchins, Edna O'Brien, Granuaile, Queen Meabh and Easkey Britton.

At a crossroads in her life, Gráinne Lyons set out to travel Ireland’s west coast on foot. She set a simple intention: to walk in the footsteps of eleven pioneering Irish women deeply rooted in this coastal landscape and explore their lives and work along the way. As a Londoner born to Irish parents, she also sought answers in her own identity.

As Gráinne heads north from Cape Clear Island where her great-grandmother was a lacemaker, she considers Ellen Hutchins, Maude Delap, Edna O’Brien, Granuaile and Queen Maeve among others from her unique perspective. Their homes – in places that are famously wild and remote – are transformed into sites of hope, purpose, opportunity and inspiration. Walking through this history, her journey reveals unexpected insight into emigrant identity, travelling alone, femininity and the trappings of an ‘ideal’ life.

Against the backdrop and power of this great ocean, Wild Atlantic Women will inspire the twenty-first-century reader and walker to keep going, regardless of the path.

GRÁINNE LYONS is a writer and documentary-maker from London, where she lives. She holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmith’s University and a BA in English Literature from the University of York. Her work has been published in The Irish Times and Aesthetica magazine and she was shortlisted for the Mslexia first novel competition in 2017. As a documentary producer, she has produced numerous arts and history films, including A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol for BBC4; Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens and Bedlam for BBC 2 and The Art of Japanese Life, also for BBC4. Most recently, she was writer on The People's Piazza: A History of Covent Garden, presented by David Olusoga and broadcast on BBC 2. Gráinne’s family live in her father’s home place of County Sligo, where she lives when she’s not in London.

Prologue: Banba’s Crown

Malin Head, County Donegal

1. South Harbour

Ellen Cotter: Cape Clear Island, County Cork

2. A Remote Country

Ellen Hutchins: Bantry Bay, County Cork

3. Miss Delap

Maude Delap: Valentia Island, County Kerry

4. Big Peig

Peig Sayers: The Great Blasket Island, County Kerry

5. The Ships

Charlotte Grace O’Brien: Foynes, County Limerick

6. The Cliff Edge

Edna O’Brien: The Cliffs of Moher, County Clare

7. On Aran

Úna McDonagh: Inisheer, County Galway

8. Glassala

Kate O’Brien: Roundstone, Connemara, County Galway

9. Queen of Clew Bay

Granuaile: Clare Island, County Mayo

10. Maeve’s Cairn

Queen Maeve of Connacht: Knocknarea, County Sligo

11. Cold Water Mountains

Easkey Britton: Rossnowlagh, County Donegal

Epilogue: Due North

Malin Head, County Donegal

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

About the author

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2024
Verlagsort	Dublin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	1-84840-928-1 / 1848409281
ISBN-13	978-1-84840-928-6 / 9781848409286
Zustand	Neuware