maedhbha – Page 3 – The Wild Gees

Reading A Ghost in the Throat

A review of Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat, which explores the life of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, author of Caoineadh Art Uí Laoghaire, whose story has been overshadowed by the men in her life.

A Thread for Oíche Shamhna

Some scary Wild Gees stories coming up for the day that’s in it. Expect graveyards, witches, megalithic tombs and the gateway to the otherworld. Even scarier: centuries of misogyny.

Some year

Well 2020, you’ve been some year and not in a good way. We’re not going to recap what a shitshow it’s been. We are blessed that we haven’t lost loved ones, but people we love have. Writing a round up of the year amid such global loss

Wikipedia: rescuing women’s stories from the forest of history

Become a Wikipedia editor and you can help ensure women’s histories will be discovered by future archaeologists

Downplaying the women of 1916

Were the women of 1916 forgotten because a misogynistic state failed to recognise their role or because they did too good a job of making sure the men were remembered?