Author Nicola Depuis talks about her new book “Mná na hÉireann” on C.R.Y. Youghal local radio

Author Nicola Depuis talks about her new book Mná na hÉireann – Women Who Shaped Ireland, which includes a chapter on the extraordinary Youghal born Anna Haslam. The interviewed with Stan Notte for C.R.Y. Youghal local radio will air on Tuesday (24th Nov. 2009) at 6.20pm.
Click here to listen to the interview – Podcast courtesy C.R.Y. Youghal Local Radio

Nicola Depuis

Mná na hÉireann – Women Who Shaped Ireland by Nicola Depuis

From Queen Medbh to Mary McAleese, Constance Markiewicz to Nell McCafferty, this is a collection of profiles of women who have shaped Ireland.

All too often when people discuss important figures in Irish history, only men are represented. When women are mentioned, it tends to be the same one or two well-known figures. Yet Irish history is full of an impressive array of women who have brought change and progress to the island and their stories are collected together for the fist time, in Mná na hÉire­ann.

From nuns to aviators and revolutionaries to civil rights campaigners, Mná na hÉire­ann profiles over fifty formidable Irish women. These profiles bring to life the amazing courage, determination and selfless actions of the inspirational women who have shaped this nation.

THE MNÁ NA HÉIREANN WHO MADE THE LIST:

Mary Aikenhead   Doctor James Barry  Louie Bennett   Eavan Boland   Saint Brigid   Sister Sarah Clarke   Margaret Cousins   Eileen Desmond   Bernadette Devlin McAliskey   Maire Drumm   Biddy Early   Ann Louise Gilligan & Katherine Zappone   Maud Gonne   Lady Augusta Gregory   Veronica Guerin   Anna Haslam   Lady Mary Heath   Nora Herlihy   Garry Hynes   Mother Jones   Nan Joyce   Sister Stanislaus Kennedy   Delia Larkin   Doctor Kathleen Lynn   Mary McAleese   Nell McCafferty   Catherine McAuley   Mairead Corrigan Maguire & Betty Williams   Catherine Mahon   Constance Markievicz   Queen Medb   Joan Denise Moriarty   Agnes Morrogh Bernard   Nano Nagle   Rosemary Nelson   Christina Noble   Edna O’ Brien   Sinead O’ Connor   Nuala O’ Faolain   Maureen O’ Hara   Grace O’ Malley   Sonia O’Sullivan   Anna Parnell   Edel Quinn   Mary Robinson   Adi Roche   Peig Sayers   Hanna Sheehy Skeffington   Edith Wilkins

Author Information
Nicola Depuis is from Cork. She has worked as a journalist for eight years writing for the Irish Examiner, the Irish Independent and The Evening Echo. Her journalistic experience and her lifelong interest in the role of women in our history has inspired her to write Mná na hÉireann.

Mná na hÉireann
is published in hardback at €24.99