Gender ARC and Centre for Global Women’s Studies – Book Launch and Public Lecture ‘What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950’s and 60’s’ presented by Dr Caitriona Clear (Senior Lecturer in His

Is mÌ_r ag Gender ARC agus ag Ionad L̩ann Domhanda na mBan in OÌä Gaillimh

cuireadh a thabhairt duit freastal ar Sheoladh Leabhair agus ar L̩acht PhoiblÌ_:

What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new

perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s

́ chur i lÌÁthair ag an Dr Caitriona Clear, L̩achtÌ_ir Sinsearach le Stair in OÌä Gaillimh chun ceili̼radh a dh̩anamh ar sheoladh a leabhair nua:

Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s

Le r̩amhrÌÁ Ì_n bhfile agus drÌÁmadÌ_ir Mary Coll

DÌÁta: D̩ardaoin, 5 Bealtaine 2016

Am: 5.00pm – 6.30pm

Ionad: ́ras Taighde UÌ_ ArgadÌÁin, Seomra SeimineÌÁir G011

Gender ARC and the Centre for Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway

are pleased to invite you to the following Book Launch and Public Lecture:

What we preserve from the past and what we ignore: some new

perspectives on women in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s

Presented by Dr Caitriona Clear, Senior Lecturer in History at NUI Galway to mark the launch of her upcoming book:

Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s

With an introduction by poet and playwright Mary Coll

Date: Thursday 5 May 2016

Time: 5.00pm – 6.30pm

Venue: The Hardiman Research Building, G011 Seminar Room

Light refreshments – all welcome

Caitriona Clear is a Senior Lecturer in modern Irish and European history at NUI, Galway. Women’s Voices in Ireland: women’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s, (Bloomsbury 2016) is her fourth book, following Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland 1850-1922 (Manchester University Press 2007), Women of the House: women’s household work in Ireland 1926-1961 (Irish Academic Press 2000) and Nuns in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Gill & Macmillan 1987). She has also published research on homelessness in post-Famine Ireland, Irish women during the First World War, twentieth-century Irish women writers, and clothes and fashion in Ireland. She is a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge History of Ireland edited by Thomas Bartlett.

Mary Coll is a Limerick poet, playwright and broadcaster. Publications include All Things Considered (Salmon 2002) numerous contributions to RTE Radio One and RTE Lyric FM. She has had stage productions of Excess Baggage (2007) and Anything But Love (2010) at The Belltable Arts Centre, radio plays commissioned by RTE Drama On One, lyrics for the Choral Work ‰Û÷Spirestone’ and two art song cycles in association with the composer Fiona Linnane, a new play Diamond Rocks: Sunset, commissioned by The Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick (2014) and a second collection of poems entitled Silver due for publication in 2016.

For questions about this event, please contact NUI Galway’s Gender ARC Convenor and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Women’s Studies: Dr Niamh Reilly, niamh.reilly@nuigalway.ie