Name: Great Irish Wives with Nicola Pierce
Start: 2025-11-24T18:30:00Z
End: 2025-11-24T19:30:00Z
Location: Tallaght Library

Great Irish Wives with Nicola Pierce

Tallaght Library

Join writer Nicola Pierce for a discussion on the subjects of her most recent book

Join wirter Nicola Pierce for a discussion of her most recent book - Great Irish Wives, published by The O'Brien Press.Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been pushed behind those of male figures. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of the men’s work, as collaborators, muses, secretaries, research assistants, carers, defenders and as managers of the family domain. Great Irish Wives shines a spotlight on ten such wives: Matilda Tone, Mary O’Connell, Constance Wilde, Charlotte Shaw, Emily Shackleton, Annette Carson, Sinéad de Valera, Margaret Clarke, George Yeats and Beatrice Behan. Drawing on archives, biographies, autobiographies and historical accounts, Nicola Pierce challenges our perception of these women and their men. The book is available to reserve via the South Dublin Libraries website. Copies of Nicola's book will also be available to purchase on the night. Nicola Pierce published her first book for children, Spirit of the Titanic, to rave reviews and five printings within its first twelve months. City of Fate, her second book, transported the reader deep into the Russian city of Stalingrad during World War II. The novel was shortlisted for the Warwickshire School Library Service Award, 2014. Nicola went on to bring seventeenth-century Ireland vividly to life in Behind the Walls (2015), a rich emotional novel set in the besieged city of Derry in 1689, followed by Kings of the Boyne (2016), a moving and gritty account capturing the Battle of the Boyne (1690), which was shortlisted for the Literacy Association of Ireland (LAI) awards.

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