Say it for the sisterhood - Gemma Tipton, Irish Times Magazine, Saturday, 20 August 2022
Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin sang about them, and now a new book celebrates the stories of sisters throughout Irish history who, although often unsung themselves, made a world of difference. From Nualaidh and her sisters, Máire and Mairghréad, the daughters of Aodh Ó Domhnaill and An Inghean Dubh; to the Sheehy Skeffington sisters, via Gore-Booths, Yeatses and Parnells, there's lots to explore. Sisters, edited by Siobhán Fitzpatrick and Mary O'Dowd, is an academic tome, so expect footnotes, but it is also an enthralling read.
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Review by Mary Kenny
Sisters of some significance - Paul Clements, The Ticket, The Irish Times, Saturday, 19 November 2022
...considers the diversity of roles that the women held, whether artists and philanthropists or suffragists and revolutionaries. There is a considerable amount to unravel, including family rivalries and tension between siblings
Dublin Review of Books, November 2022
History, or His Story, has been written so exclusively by men and about men ‑ this war, that war, this economy, that economy, who’s wearing what crown etc, etc that it’s wonderful to witness the trickle of Her Story, of bringing women back into the narrative, turning into a flood. All hail then 'Sisters'...
Review by Rosita Sweetman Their Story
