Changing Ireland

"The last three decades have witnessed an explosion of women's writing in Ireland. During these few years hundreds of novels and short-story collections have appeared, works that have invented a new Ireland - on both sides of the border - and a new place for women in it. Changing Ireland explores just this: a fractured people re-imagining itself in the minds of gifted women. The first book to address an extraordinary achievement, this study examines the recent fiction within its social contexts, alert to the historical and political realities from which it emerges. The seven chapters that…