Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective
A moving and often amusing collection of fiction, poetry and autobiography by top-selling and award-winning authors. Tales of blood and bloodlines – Irish grandmothers, ma’s and da’s, the Famine and the Troubles. Whatever the form, these are the stories, the music, the whispering dreams and the voices that ache to be heard. There is wildness and daring in these voices. They call up legions out of the sea and set fires alight. They hang out over garden fences, move restlessly, are dotey, beaming, weeping, powerful.
1996 | ISBN 9781875559510 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 373 pp
Reviews
… I was an old woman before I got myself back. This book helped me retrace my journey and it will do the same for many women.
–Shelagh Wilkinson, Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme Vol. 17 # 3
Above all I enjoyed this anthology for the quality of writing, particularly Dublin writer, Eavan Boland, whose style and maturity is breathtaking.
–Kathy Kituai, Muse
The writer who surprised and pleased me most is an Australian, Francecsca Rendle-short, who is author of the novel, Imago. In Wee Girls she gives a map of her maternal Irish ancestry in delicate blocks of fiction …
Rendle-Short’s work and Lizz Murphy’s introduction, which is a funny, anecdotal piece coming down heavily in favour of Ulysses, make Wee Girls hang together, albeit in an Irish sort of way.
–Anne Kennedy, Listener
'Wee Girls is wide ranging, geographically and conceptually, and a good read …'
–Helen Horton, Imago
'… it is simply worth reading because the writing is resoundingly good.’
–Veronica Gleeson, Ariel View
'A remarkable collection.'
–Phillip Adams
' … a nice big fat value-for-money anthology with an extremely broad range.'
–Margie Cronin, Refractory Girl