Gerardine Meaney

An inquest found that he had died by falling out of a window, and noted that he had been kept under restrait for some time. His Times obituary termed Lord Cloncurry's death an accident. Later...

Though it was never entirely forgotten, Lawless's writing did not fit the assumptions about what Irish literature should be in the first half of the twentieth century, and she was largely excluded from the...

More recently, critics have examined EL 's novels in the context of her feminism or proto-feminism (particularly Grania, discussed in articles by Gerardine Meaney , Elizabeth Grubgeld , and James M. Cahalan ), as...

The parallels with KCT 's own death moved from the realm of rumour and speculation to become literary scholarship in 1916 when the story was reported by Stephen Brown in Ireland in Fiction. It...

More recently, critic Gerardine Meaney has argued that the novel is both unique in its exuberant gender play and unmatched in its depiction of Irish culture until Neil Jordan 's The Crying Game (a film...

Recent critics have also praised Grania, often though not always attributing to it a progressive politics. Gerardine Meaney reads it as anything but proto-feminist, and as retrogressive in its ideas on Irish land...

According to critic Gerardine Meaney , The Fly on the Wheel offers an exploration of the social and psychological restrictions on a young woman of independent mind in turn-of-the-century Irish society. Set in KCT

The novel returns to a central theme in KCT 's body of work, which by now had become a selling point for her: her focus on the prevalence of the masquerade, disguise, and the reinvention...

Lawless paints an extremely vivid picture of the islanders' lives, of the omnipresent poverty and the harsh land on which they live. Grania's characterisation is particularly complex, as Gerardine Meaney notes: though she possess characteristics...

The other authors were Clodagh Corcoran , Helena Sheehan , Trudy Hayes , Ethna Viney , Ruth Riddick , Carol Coulter , Edna Longley , Gerardine Meaney , Maureen Gaffney , Margaret Ward , and Gretchen Fitzgerald .