Great Irish Wives: Remarkable Lives from History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788494779)

WINNER History Book of the Year, An Post Irish Book Awards.

Throughout history, the stories of women's lives and work have been overshadowed by those of men.

Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of their husband's work, as collaborators, muses, carers and managers of the family domain.

Great Irish Wives shines a spotlight on ten such wives: Matilda Tone, Mary O'Connell, Constance Wilde, Charlotte Shaw, Emily Shackleton, Annette Carson, Sinéad de Valera, Margaret Clarke, George Yeats and Beatrice Behan.

The men in this book are household names, from Wolfe Tone and Daniel O'Connell 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.

Author: Nicola Pierce
ISBN-10: 1788494776
ISBN-13: 9781788494779
Publisher: O'Brien Press
Language: English
Published: 02/05/2026
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover