Lucy McDiarmid's scholarly interest in cultural politics, especially quirky, colourful, suggestive episodes, is exemplified by The Irish Art of Controversy (2005) and Poets and the Peacock Dinner: the literary history of a meal (2014). She is a past president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and a former fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
'Few books published for the centenary of 1916 will be as original,
as entertaining, as thoroughly researched or as well written as
this analysis of women’s words, ideas and actions during the Easter
Rising and the Howth gun-running that preceded it'.
*At Home in the Revolution review: the Rising’s clan na gals*
'In the torrent of history books published to mark the 1916
centenary, a small number will stand out as worthy of repeated
reprint. Lucy McDiarmid’s At Home In The Revolution is one of those
books. Its concept is innovative, its substance is enlightening and
surprising, and its style and production are a joy to read and
hold'.
*Seeing the Rising from a female perspective*
'The book is at once a political study of shifting gender relations
as well as a thoroughly researched, vivid, emotional, and often
comic look at forgotten stories of the Rising that will entertain
as much as it will enlighten'.
*Adam Farley*
'This work is an exemplar of how to do and write women’s history.
Although bookshelves may be groaning with the weight of 1916-themed
books this is one book no one interested in the 1916 Rising can be
without'.
*Mary McAuliffe*
‘There’s a particular pleasure in the well-told anecdote. But in
historical scholarship, “well-told” also involves finding the
larger meaning of the individual episode. At this, Lucy McDiarmid
[...] clearly excels’.
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