Wild Atlantic Women
Walking Ireland's West Coast
$31.01
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2024
Summary
At a crossroads in her life, Gráinne Lyons set out to travel Ireland’s west coast on foot. She set a simple intention: to walk in the footsteps of eleven pioneering Irish women deeply rooted in this coastal landscape and explore their lives and work along the way. As a Londoner born to Irish parents, she also sought answers in her own identity.
As Gráinne heads north from Cape Clear Island where her great-grandmother was a lacemaker, she considers Ellen Hutchins, Maude Delap, Edna O’B…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848409286 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1848409281 |
| Author: | Gráinne Lyons |
| Publisher: | New Island Books |
| Imprint: | New Island Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Wild Atlantic Women is a different, deeper narrative that gradually soaks into your consciousness, like soft rain soaks on to your skin in the remote coastal locations that Lyons visits. Lyon’s understated, luminous writing does justice to these diverse women who all shared this wild coastline.
Although Lyons concentrates on her subjects, many of whom were from remote communities, like the best travel narratives there is an inner and outer journey as she reaches a crossroads in her own life.
– Paul Clements * The Irish Times *Gráinne Lyons
GRÁINNE LYONS is a writer and documentary-maker from London, where she lives. She holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmith’s University and a BA in English Literature from the University of York. Her work has been published in The Irish Times and Aesthetica magazine and she was shortlisted for the Mslexia first novel competition in 2017. As a documentary producer, she has produced numerous arts and history films, including A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol for BBC4; Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens and Bedlam for BBC 2 and The Art of Japanese Life, also for BBC4. Most recently, she was writer on The People’s Piazza: A History of Covent Garden, presented by David Olusoga and broadcast on BBC 2. Gráinne’s family live in her father’s home place of County Sligo, where she lives when she’s not in London.
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