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From a land fraught with political and religious conflict comes this testimony to the survival of the spirit. Engaged politically, but also concerned with issues that confront women throughout the world, the writers in this collection embody in their work the interconnection of the personal and the political, the individual and the social. Their voices, emanating from diverse backgrounds, demonstrate the range and depth of contemporary fiction by Irish women.

Born in 1908, Esther Miller was the daughter of a Methodist preacher. She came of age in Depression-era Ohio and lived during a century of tremendous social, technological, political and cultural change. She was born into near-poverty in a small Ohio town. She worked and sacrificed to free herself from the hardscrabble life into which she was born. She tragically lost a child, outlived three husbands and rediscovered a lost love. She abandoned the religion of her childhood and found her own way in her spiritual life. She buried her past in order to keep moving forward. People were drawn to...

"In my first Creative Thinking class with Dr. Schultz, he asked, "Why do women have to be creative thinkers?" My answer became the turning point in my life and the purpose behind my particular lifestyle."

For a woman born in 1906, the idea of living a creative, vibrant lifestyle was almost unknown. But once Kathleen Nolan Walsh Keating was introduced to the then-emerging ideas of Creative Thinking, her own personal revolution began. Kathleen became not only a wife and mother, but also a teacher, writer, lecturer, painter and world traveler. At a time when other women were often living in...

"In my first Creative Thinking class with Dr. Schultz, he asked, "Why do women have to be creative thinkers?" My answer became the turning point in my life and the purpose behind my particular lifestyle."

For a woman born in 1906, the idea of living a creative, vibrant lifestyle was almost unknown. But once Kathleen Nolan Walsh Keating was introduced to the then-emerging ideas of Creative Thinking, her own personal revolution began. Kathleen became not only a wife and mother, but also a teacher, writer, lecturer, painter and world traveler. At a time when other women were often living in...