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PublisherLittle Island

ISBN-101848408595

ISBN-139781848408593

eBay Product ID (ePID)2329849444

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Book TitleWild Atlantic Women : Walking Ireland's West Coast

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicPersonal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Ireland

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorGráinne Lyons

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-445591

ReviewsAlthough Lyons concentrates on her subjects, many of whom were from remote communities, like the best travel narratives there is an inner and outer journey as she reaches a crossroads in her own life., Wild Atlantic Women is a different, deeper narrative that gradually soaks into your consciousness, like soft rain soaks into way onto your skin in the remote coastal locations that Lyons visits. Lyon's understated, luminous writing does justice to these diverse women who all shared this wild coastline.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal914.150483

Table Of ContentPrologue: Banba's CrownMalin 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 AcknowledgementsBibliographyAbout the author

SynopsisAt 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 - 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., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberDA978.2