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IRELAND’S evolving society and what it has meant for women writers will be discussed at a forthcoming literary event. Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020 is one of the Ennis Book Club Festival events and will be held at Glór on March 4. In 2021, author Éilís Ni Dhuibhne asked 21 writers who were born in mid-twentieth-century Ireland, north and south, to write about their literary lives. Collectively, these vivid, original essays make up Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Irish Literary Feminisms, 1970-2020 and provide a picture of Ireland’s literary landscape from multiple female points of view. These writers came of age when legislation for gender equality was beginning to be enacted. They are now growing older on an island where a great deal has changed and were activists and voices when it really mattered. Evelyn Conlon is one of the women included in the book and she will be part of the panel at Glór to …
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