Acknowledgements
Foreword / Martina Devlin
Introduction / Eíliś Ni ́Dhuibhne
Catching Myself On / Cherry Smyth
Cringe / Mary Morrissy
The World Split Open / Lia Mills
Poetry: A Door Opening / Moya Cammon
The Smell of Old Books / Áine Ní Ghlinn
Writing for My Life / Catherine Dunne
The Dream Itself Enchanted Me / Eíliś Ni ́Dhuibhne
Bohemia, Bohemia / Mary O'Donnell
Notes on the Early Days / Mary O'Malley
I May Be Silent, But / Ruth Carr
Look! It's a Woman Writer! / Evelyn Conlon
Swimming in History / Anne Devlin
Dublin Made Me a Writer / Ivy Bannister
Apostrophe / Sophia Hillan
A Poet's Life / Medbh McGuckian
/ Why? / Mary Dorcey
Becoming the Writer l Am / Celia de Fréine (1948)
My Writing Life / Máiríde Woods
This is a Race / Liz McManus
How I Became a Writer / Mary Rose Callaghan
The Fruits of a Life / Phyl Herbert
AFTERWORD: Irish Literary Feminisms, 1970-2020 / Alan Hayes.