a ISBN 1-87555-951-5

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number PR8836.5.W66

b Item number W44 1996

a Dewey Classification 820/.09287/0899162

a Title Wee girls :

b Remainder of title women writing from an Irish perspective /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Lizz Murphy.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc North Melbourne, Vic. :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Spinifex,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1996.

a Extent xxvi, 373 p. :

b Other physical details ports. ;

c Dimensions 20 cm.

a General note "Women writing from an Irish perspective in Australia, Ireland, England, the United States, Canada and New Zealand."--P. [4] of cover.

a General note Fiction, poetry and autobiographical writings.

a Formatted contents note Searching ; The beginning ; Changing ; The final season / Robyn Rowland -- My grandmother's voice ; The breath of history ; The Gaelic poets warned me ; The whiteness of snow ; Learning to live with it ; I cannot love you as you want to be loved ; I saw a fish this morning / Mary Dorcey -- Famine fever ; The whole nine yards / Helena Mulkerns -- A shadow on the heart ; To whom it may concern ; A joyous day / Colleen Burke -- The making of a writer ; The marvellous boy / Linda Anderson -- Sheelan̂aĝigging around / Nuala Archer -- Power cuts / Siobhán McHugh -- Extract from Echoes / Maeve Binchy -- Extract from Outercourse / Mary Daly -- Being Irish ; Belief / Sue Reidy -- How I might write Irish ; Broken language ; Lunch music café ; Among trees ; Invisible ink ; Ideas of sirens ; Antipodean geography ; The pure in heart / Jill Jones -- Drawing ballerinas : how being Irish has influenced me as a writer ; The mast year ; Road 32, roof 13-23, grass 23 ; The dead are more alive ; Rathlin Road / Medbh McGuckian -- The roadside ; Maybe it was 1970 ; Summer breeze / Cherry Smyth -- Seeing stars ; Falling asleep with strangers / Joan Bridget -- Girl beaming in a white dress / Ailbhe Smyth -- Growing a language ; Paper petals ; White petals ; Good fairy bad fairy ; My Irishness ; Wee girls ; Sentiments ; Millies ; Tarts ; Bobbing for apples ; Speaking of Eve ; Sabbath ; Good women ; Dying ; Deadmen's eyes ; Time out ; The planet next door / Lizz Murphy -- Once upon a time ; A wedding ; Skeletons ; Coming back down to earth ; priorities / Bub Bridger -- Loop the loop / Francesca Rendle-Short -- Potatofah-Minirish ; Lifo / Pam Lewis -- On being an Irish woman writer ; Tomato time ; Long drive to work ; Snowy via Canberra ; Lamb-marking ; rites ; Bee Yellow Native ; Circling Dublin / Bronwyn Rodden -- The flogger ; Prism ; The taxi man knows ; Mothercare ; Higher purchase ; The flute girl's dialogue / Rita Ann Higgins -- Anna Liffey ; Making the difference ; The emigrant Irish / Eavan Boland.

a Summary, etc Women writing from an Irish perspective. The collection includes Helena Mulkerns' Famine Fever, a story on the Great Famine, Robyn Rowland's Searching, which is on a woman's visit to the country of her ancestors, and Eavan Boland's The Emigrant Irish, on the life of the Irish in the New World.

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y Chronological subdivision 20th century

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a Personal name Murphy Lizz