"Essays ... presented to the Fourteenth International Seminar of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, March 1981"--Introd.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Irish women in legend, literature and life / Lorna Reynolds -- Female principle in Gaelic poetry / Maire Cruise O'Brien -- Women in the plays of W.B. Yeats / Andrew Parkin -- Synge and the nature of woman / Ann Saddlemyer -- New woman and the old goddess: the shaping of Shaw's mythology / J. Percy Smith -- "Two words for women": a reassessment of O'Casey's heroines / Ronald Ayling -- Look of a queen / Hugh Kenner -- Dramatic treatment of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran / Maureen S.G. Hawkins -- Rewriting history: Anna Parnell's "The tale of a great sham" / Dana Hearne.