Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981

By Elgy Gillespie

Changing the Times showcases the best of this writing, by Maeve Binchy, Mary Leland, Gabrielle Williams, Geraldine Kennedy, Christina Murphy, Maev Kennedy, Caroline Walsh, Theodora FitzGibbon, Renagh Holohan, Mary Cummins, Nell McCafferty, Elgy Gillespie and others. Issues of the day are articulated and explored: pregnancy, fashion, first loves, sexuality, a burgeoning feminism, an imploding Catholic Church, an exploding North. Nell McCafferty profiles a young Ian Paisley, visits New York, and talks to the mother of a girl tarred and feathered in Derry; Maeve Binchy interviews Samuel Beckett and Iris Murdoch; Renagh Holohan describes being caught in an explosion in Belfast; Caroline Walsh meets Seamus Heaney and Edna O'Brien; Elgy Gillespie encounters Muhammad Ali, Tyrone Guthrie and Robert Lowell. As the mirror of a confident young nation, and a window onto one of the most eventful decades in recent Irish history, Changing the Times grants these writings the afterlife they deserve, and offers the reader an enriching view of the past. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843510189
• ISBN13: 9781843510185
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: The Lilliput Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"