Truth and Dare: Stories About Women Who Shaped Ireland

Leaders. Rebels. Pioneers. Short stories about some of Ireland’s trailblazing women by award-winning writer Martina Devlin.

In this collection we encounter Countess Markievicz back from the dead to cast a disapproving eye over modern Ireland, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington on hunger strike in prison, and Somerville and Ross discussing book business with their London agent Mr Pinker.

Others we meet include a range of activists Anna Parnell in a pawnshop, Belfast’s Mary Ann McCracken walking her brother to the scaffold, and Dr Kathleen Lynn locking horns with an archbishop.

Authentic and poignant, witty and revealing, Truth & Dare draws on true events to breathe life into an extraordinary cast of women.

Their times were out of step with them now their time has come

Review

‘An intelligent, insightful collection that takes some of Ireland’s most significant women and brings them effortlessly to life. From political renegades to writers, they live, breath and walk among us thanks to Devlin’s brilliant characterisation. An Impressive and important book’ –Sinead Gleeson