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of women’s lives and work have been overshadowed by those of men. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons
and champions of their husbands’ 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 Theobald 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.
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