Florrie's Girls

Maeve Kelly aims to capture the innocence of those girls who dare to take on the burden of human suffering and offers a view of the female predicament in society. A student nurse starts her training in the fifties and finds her sheltered and Catholic upbringing turned upside-down.

Florries Girls

Kelly, Maeve

Literature & Fiction

London, Joseph [

"Of the new wave of female writers... the finest for me is Maeve Kelly."                                                Irish TimesEighteen-year-old Cos arrives in post-war London to begin her     nursing training at a small hospital run by nuns, dreaming of the Ireland she has left behind. With her young colleagues Binks and  Hanly, she finds survival a tricky business.  As she ministers to the sick, Cos bends every nerve to fit into the decrees of the    hospital system and falling in and out of love, her world turns   upside down.

Contemporary

The Blackstaff Press Ltd

Necessary Treasons

Published in the centenary of the Easter Rising, Orange Horses provides a rare and remarkable insight into areas of Irish society which are often maligned and ignored. These 20 stories are beautiful, sad and funny.

Orange Horses (Trampress Recovered Voices)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tramp Press

<p>A riotous journey by Alice through the strange land of Thunderland, which is ruled by a species called the memblies. There are femblies too, of course. . .<br>Alice in Thunderland is a hilarious feminist fairytale, a satirical look at male-dominated society, cocking a snook at the apparent logic of the structures that underpin our lives.</p>

Alice in Thunderland: A Feminist Fairytale

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Attic Pr

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