Article: Celebrating Irish women in history.(Ariadne's Thread: Writing Women into Irish History)(Book review)

MARGARET MACCURTAIN

Ariadne's Thread: Writing Women into Irish History

Arlen House, 2008,

IT WAS A MOMENTOUS EVENT when admirers by the hundreds gathered at Dublin's Old City Hall on 8 March 2008 to celebrate Dr. Margaret MacCurtain and her fascinating collection of essays, Adriadne 's Thread: Writing Women into Irish History. Launching this volume on International Women's Day was especially appropriate since no other historian has done as much as Dr. MacCurtain to lift the veil of historical obscurity from the lives of Irish women over the centuries. City Hail, a site of strategic importance during Easter week in 1916 where women of Cumann na ...

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