Download or read book Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland written by Marie-Louise Coolahan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses women's writing in early modern Ireland. It explores the ways in which women contributed to the power struggles of the period; how they strove to be heard, forged space for their voices, and engaged with new and native language-traditions to produce poetry, petition-letters, depositions, and autobiography.