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Irish women in the 19th century lived 'at the sharp end of history' (Boland) in a period marked by momentous developments in industry, transport, technology and trade. Not all of these worked in women's favour. This book focuses on several facets of the lives of Mayo women, with their experiences of recurrent famines, including the Great Famine, changing patterns of migration, emigration and employment. By the end of the period, though, some had better accommodation and many were literate, having attended the local National Schools. From 1851 on, however, women struggled to regain their...

This book delineates the lives of the 'Unknown Irishwoman' in a turbulent century in Galway County and City on Ireland's western seaboard. Their (Irishwomen') lot in history cannot easily be measured. Much of it has disappeared; more of it was never recorded (Bowman, 2014). The work tells many of the untold or forgotten stories of 'the lives of women which slide between the cracks', to cite the novelist Martina Devlin (2014) and who could so easily be completely written out of history. The book will appeal to the local historian, those with an interest in social history, women's history and...