Great Irish Wives: Remarkable Lives from History [Hardcover]

An award-winning history that reveals the vital, overlooked roles of the wives behind Irelands most famous men.WINNER History Book of the Year, An Post Irish Book Awards.Throughout history, the stories of womens lives and work have been overshadowed by those of men.Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of their husbands work, as collaborators, muses, carers and managers of the family domain.Great Irish Wives shines a spotlight on ten such wives: Matilda Tone, Mary OConnell, Constance Wilde, Charlotte Shaw, Emily Shackleton, Annette Carson, Sin?ad de Valera, Margaret Clarke, George Yeats and Beatrice Behan.The men in this book are household names, from Wolfe Tone and Daniel OConnell to Oscar Wilde and Brendan Behan, and they all have one thing in common: they married women who enabled them to pursue their dreams, even if that meant courting death or outrage. Nicola Pierce tells the stories of these truly remarkable women.Great Irish Wives shines a spotlight on ten wives who were instrumental in their famous husbands' success: Matilda Tone, Mary OConnell, Constance Wilde, Charlotte Shaw, Emily Shackleton, Annette Carson, Sin?ad de Valera, Margaret Clarke, George Yeats and Beatrice Behan.Authors Note1 Matilda Tone2 Mary OConnell3 Constance Wilde4 Charlotte Shaw5 Emily Shackleton6 Annette Carson7 Sin?ad de Valera8 Margaret Clarke9 Georgie George Yeats10 Beatrice BehanFurther ReadingIndexPL