Wild Atlantic Women by Grinne Lyons
A second-generation London Irishwoman walks the Wild Atlantic Way in the footsteps of eleven pioneering women, beginning with her great-grandmother, a lacemaker on Cape Clear Island, and including Ellen Hutchins, Edna O'Brien, Granuaile, Queen Meabh and Easkey Britton.Wild Atlantic Women is a different, deeper narrative that gradually soaks into your consciousness, like soft rain soaks into way onto your skin in the remote coastal locations that Lyons visitsLyon’s understated, luminous writing does justice to these diverse women who all shared this wild coastline.
Although Lyons concentrates on her subjects, many of whom were from remote communities, like the best travel narratives there is an inner and outer journey as she reaches a crossroads in her own life.
-- Paul Clements * The Irish Times *GRÁINNE LYONS is a writer and documentary-maker from London, where she lives. She holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmith’s University and a BA in English Literature from the University of York. Her work has been published in The Irish Times and Aesthetica magazine and she was shortlisted for the Mslexia first novel competition in 2017. As a documentary producer, she has produced numerous arts and history films, including A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol for BBC4; Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens and Bedlam for BBC 2 and The Art of Japanese Life, also for BBC4. Most recently, she was writer on The People's Piazza: A History of Covent Garden, presented by David Olusoga and broadcast on BBC 2. Gráinne’s family live in her father’s home place of County Sligo, where she lives when she’s not in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848409286 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848409281 |
| Title | Wild Atlantic Women |
| Author | Gráinne Lyons |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Island Books |
| Year published | 2024-02-09 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
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