Wild Irish Women by Marian Broderick

Wild Irish Women by Marian BroderickFrom patriots to pirates, warriors to writers, and mistresses to male impersonators, this book looks at the unorthodox lives of inspiring Irish women. In times when women were expected to marry and have children, they travelled the world and sought out adventures; in times when women were expected to be seen and not heard, they spoke out in loud voices against oppression; in times when women were expected to have no interest in politics, literature,

creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape

full of insight and sweetness

its irresistible heroine

But brave young women stand up for hope

a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast

Her intense

A novel that immerses us in the tragic

Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband

"An imaginative triumph

its social precision and

John Kaag took journeys on foot through the Swiss Alps as an introspective teenager and later in life with his wife and child in tow

but he's also the most accident prone