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Hardship & High Living - Irish Women’s Lives 1808-1923
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In the 19th century, Irish women lived extraordinary lives, yet their testimonies are rarely heard -
Hardship and High Living provides a broad, cursory introduction to Irish women’s lives in the long nineteenth century.
In eleven brief chapters, O’Cleirigh strings together copious excerpts from diary entries, household accounts, and family correspondences to offer readers a glimpse of Irish women’s myriad concerns during Ireland’s fraught period under British dominion. Adopting an unadorned, genial approach, O’Cleirigh supplies a knowledgeable voiceover to an admirably broad array of documents that testify to the diversity of experiences, challenges, and perspectives of Irish women living as part of the British empire. The subjects of O’Cleirigh’s book represent a fairly balanced range in class, religion, region, and vocation, though women living in Northern Ireland are for the most part absent from this study.
Hardship & High Living provides fascinating new insights into the reality of women’s lives from 1808 to 1923, a period during which Irish society underwent a complete
transformation.
Available on Amazon: Publisher: Portobello Press; illustrated edition edition (16 May 2003), Language English- ISBN-10: 0951924915
- ISBN-13: 978-0951924914
Nellie O’Cléirigh was a graduate of UCD in History and Irish. Author of three previous books including ’Valentia: A Different Irish Island’, Nellie lived her life between her homes in Dublin and Valentia Island. Sadly Nellie died in 2009.
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