Women of Ireland: A Biographic DictionaryContaining 300 entries, this biographical dictionary of Irish women includes women from earliest times up to the present day. Women from all walks of life are represented - well known personalities as well as those who have faded from memory or have been ignored by chroniclers and historians. |
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