27 Look! It's A Woman Writer!
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A new collection of essays which reflect on the perils and compulsions of authorship, the vagaries of success and failure - and what counts as either. Twenty-one contributors tell it like it really was. All of them came of age when equality legislation was being enacted in Ireland – often due to their activism. Look! It's A Woman Writer, edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, published by Arlen House More information here: http://arlenhouse.blogspot.com Produced and presented by Martina Devlin
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