Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Introduction: ‘Slow Tide on Tide of History’: Poetry by Women in Ireland, 1870–1970
- A Note on the Texts
- Elizabeth Varian (1821–1851–1896)
- Emily Hickey (1845–1881–1924)
- Katharine Tynan (1858–1885–1931)
- Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1893–1918)
- Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1898–1926)
- Emily Lawless (1845–1902–1913)
- Susan L. Mitchell (1866–1906–1926)
- Alice Milligan (1866–1908–1953)
- Winifred M. Letts (1881–1913–1972)
- Eileen Shanahan (1901–[1921]–1979)
- Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879–1929–1967)
- Blanaid Salkeld (1880–1933–1959)
- Sheila Wingfield (1906–1938–1992)
- Freda Laughton (1907–1945–?)
- Rhoda Coghill 1903–1948–2000
- Appendix 1: Irish Women Poets 1870–1970
- Appendix 2: Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Appendix 2: Chronology
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Introduction: ‘Slow Tide on Tide of History’: Poetry by Women in Ireland, 1870–1970
- A Note on the Texts
- Elizabeth Varian (1821–1851–1896)
- Emily Hickey (1845–1881–1924)
- Katharine Tynan (1858–1885–1931)
- Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866–1893–1918)
- Eva Gore-Booth (1870–1898–1926)
- Emily Lawless (1845–1902–1913)
- Susan L. Mitchell (1866–1906–1926)
- Alice Milligan (1866–1908–1953)
- Winifred M. Letts (1881–1913–1972)
- Eileen Shanahan (1901–[1921]–1979)
- Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879–1929–1967)
- Blanaid Salkeld (1880–1933–1959)
- Sheila Wingfield (1906–1938–1992)
- Freda Laughton (1907–1945–?)
- Rhoda Coghill 1903–1948–2000
- Appendix 1: Irish Women Poets 1870–1970
- Appendix 2: Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Titles and First Lines
Summary
1870
Home Rule movement founded by Isaac Butt.
Gladstone's First Land Act.
Poems by James Clarence Mangan published.
Alessie Bond, The Triumph of Faith, and Other Poems (Dublin/London).
1873
Gladstone's Irish University Bill defeated.
1874
Sixty Home Rulers returned in General Election.
Mary S. Godfrey, Darkness and Light, The Fallen Empire, and Other Poems (Dublin).
Elizabeth Varian, Never Forsake the Ship and Other Poems (Dublin).
1877
Parnell becomes President of Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain.
Elizabeth Varian, The Political and National Poems of Finola (Dublin).
1879
Foundation of the National Land League of Ireland.
1880
Parnell elected Chairman of Irish Parliamentary Party.
Ladies’ Land League founded in New York.
1881
Ladies’ Land League launched in Ireland.
Gladstone's Second Land Act.
Land League outlawed.
Ellen Mary Clerke, The Flying Dutchman, and Other Poems (London).
Ellen Mary Downing, Poems for Children (Dublin).
Emily Hickey, A Sculptor and Other Poems (London).
1882
Lord Cavendish and T. H. Burke murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Foundation of the Irish National League.
1884
Gaelic Athletic Association founded.
Dublin's first two rates-supported libraries open.
Elizabeth Little, Persephone and Other Poems (Dublin).
1885
Katharine Tynan, Louise de la Vallière and Other Poems (London).
1886
Irish hierarchy endorses Home Rule.
Gladstone's Home Rule Bill defeated.
Rosa Mulholland, Vagrant Verses (London).
1887
Women's Voices: An Anthology of the Most Characteristic Poems by English, Scotch and Irish Women, edited by Mrs William Sharp, published in London.
Charlotte Grace O'Brien, Lyrics (London).
Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks (London).
1889
Parnell cited in O'shea divorce petition.
W. B. Yeats's Crossways published.
Margaret Mary Ryan, Songs of Remembrance (Dublin).
1890
Irish Parliamentary Party splits—minority support for Parnell.
1891
Congested Districts Board established.
Parnell dies.
Emily Hickey, Michael Villiers, Idealist, and Other Poems (London).
Emily Hickey, Verse-Translations and Other Poems (London).
Katharine Tynan, Ballads and Lyrics (London).
1892
National Literary Society founded.
Douglas Hyde delivers ‘On the Necessity for De-Anglicizing the Irish People’.
Jane Barlow, Bogland Studies (London).
1893
Gaelic League founded.
Second Home Rule Bill passed by the Commons, but rejected by the Lords.
W. B. Yeats's The Rose published.
Dora Sigerson Shorter, Verses (London).
Elinor Mary Sweetman, Footsteps of the Gods and Other Poems (London).
1894
Irish Agricultural Organization Society founded.
Inauguration of the Irish Trades Union Congress.
Elizabeth Little, Poems (Dublin).
Katharine Tynan, Cuckoo Songs (London).
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- Poetry by Women in IrelandA Critical Anthology 1870–1970, pp. 267 - 280Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2012