Changing the Times : Irish women journalists 1969 - 1981 / edited by Elgy Gillespie

This 'new journalism' by Irish Times women writers first appeared on the Women First pages during the 1970s. Taken together, the pieces reflect the enormous social changes of the years when, as the first woman's page editor Mary Maher put it, 'Irish women were invented'. They also make great reads, wise and witty looks at an emerging Ireland that seethed with change in those years - years when the women's pages of the Irish Times were the unmissable part of the day in an island awakening from a long sleep of isolation while it geared up painfully to join the rest of Europe. Changing the Times showcases the best writing in the Irish Times, pioneered by Maeve Binchy, Mary Maher, Mary Cummins, Mary Leland, Nell McCafferty, Gabrielle Williams, Mary Holland, Renagh Holohan, Christina Murphy, Geraldine Kennedy, Maev Kennedy, Eileen O'Brien, Caroline Walsh, Theodora FitzGibbon, Ella Shanahan, Olivia O'Leary, Elgy Gillespie and others