A long time since I wrote on this blog. So if you have read the last post, welcome back. I am engaged on an absorbing new project arising out of Bibeanna. The women of Bibeanna belong to a generation of Irish people of whom large numbers emigrated, many to America. So I have located a further group of women, in the cities of New York, Hartford Connecticut, and Springfield Massachusetts, and interviewed them for Bibeanna Part II.
They are magnificent. I will keep you posted on the appearance of the programmes, in the early Spring.
I am looking for further ladies, of Dingle origins, in Boston, Chicago, and any other East Coast regions. So if you know somebody, please let me know.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Bibeanna
This is the story of my first book. It will entertain you, inform you, and make you proud of your womenfolk. Which you are already of course, aren't you?
Bibeanna:
In Bibeanna, 25 women from Dingle reflect on their lives and on the changes they have seen in over eighty years. Their experiences will resonate with women the world over.
In their time, they have run household and farm, been wives, teachers and mothers; some have spent years abroad while others have rarely left their own parish.
The accounts they give are, firstly, the intimate stories of their personal lives, stories recollecting work and enjoyment, marriage and childbirth, community and separation, custom and controversy: women’s talk, in a word.
Their memories and experiences extend beyond the personal, though: collectively they provide a commentary on the changing face of the world in the last century. These women are familiar with the "hedge schools" (which we organised privately in Ireland during the period when the British prevented us from running schools) and the famine from the tales of their grandparents – nowadays they connect with their grandchildren on their mobile phones. In their youth, healing relied on the use of herbs and such traditional healers as the bonesetter; today they have medical centres and home helps. They have seen the arrival of radio, television, flush toilets and the page-three pin-up; new-found affluence and political, clerical and local scandal. They have taken much in their stride, and their vitality and resourcefulness continue to glow.
Short academic commentaries – from Professor Angela Burke, Dr. Máirín Gaffney, Mary Hanafin, Aire Oideachais, Professor Ivana Bacik, and Senator Dr. Mary Henry– are added to place these women’s personal and social stories in a wider context, valuable to students of many disciplines.
I will be visiting North America shortly to speak to several groups about the book.
Mo chéad leabhar! Nuair a léas blog mná i Nua Eabhrac aréir agus nuair a fuaireas Bibeanna mar ábhar léitheoireachta aici, léim mo chroí. Is mná iontacha iad seo, agus is fiú don saol iad a léamh. Toisc an leabhar a bheith iomlán dátheangach, beidh tú ábalta léamh as Gaeilge nó as Béarla mar a oireann duit. Bain taitneamh as. Tá sé ar fáil ar Amazon UK agus Canada, agus beidh go luath san USA. Fair amach dó. Beidh mé ag tabhairt cuairt go luath ar Mheiriceá Thuaidh chun labhairt le grúpaí éagsúla mar gheall ar an leabhar.
Bibeanna:
In Bibeanna, 25 women from Dingle reflect on their lives and on the changes they have seen in over eighty years. Their experiences will resonate with women the world over.
In their time, they have run household and farm, been wives, teachers and mothers; some have spent years abroad while others have rarely left their own parish.
The accounts they give are, firstly, the intimate stories of their personal lives, stories recollecting work and enjoyment, marriage and childbirth, community and separation, custom and controversy: women’s talk, in a word.
Their memories and experiences extend beyond the personal, though: collectively they provide a commentary on the changing face of the world in the last century. These women are familiar with the "hedge schools" (which we organised privately in Ireland during the period when the British prevented us from running schools) and the famine from the tales of their grandparents – nowadays they connect with their grandchildren on their mobile phones. In their youth, healing relied on the use of herbs and such traditional healers as the bonesetter; today they have medical centres and home helps. They have seen the arrival of radio, television, flush toilets and the page-three pin-up; new-found affluence and political, clerical and local scandal. They have taken much in their stride, and their vitality and resourcefulness continue to glow.
Short academic commentaries – from Professor Angela Burke, Dr. Máirín Gaffney, Mary Hanafin, Aire Oideachais, Professor Ivana Bacik, and Senator Dr. Mary Henry– are added to place these women’s personal and social stories in a wider context, valuable to students of many disciplines.
I will be visiting North America shortly to speak to several groups about the book.
Mo chéad leabhar! Nuair a léas blog mná i Nua Eabhrac aréir agus nuair a fuaireas Bibeanna mar ábhar léitheoireachta aici, léim mo chroí. Is mná iontacha iad seo, agus is fiú don saol iad a léamh. Toisc an leabhar a bheith iomlán dátheangach, beidh tú ábalta léamh as Gaeilge nó as Béarla mar a oireann duit. Bain taitneamh as. Tá sé ar fáil ar Amazon UK agus Canada, agus beidh go luath san USA. Fair amach dó. Beidh mé ag tabhairt cuairt go luath ar Mheiriceá Thuaidh chun labhairt le grúpaí éagsúla mar gheall ar an leabhar.
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