Episode 3: Cliona O'Gallchoir - 'Living Along the Line': Women's Writing in 18th Century Ireland

Clíona Ó Gallchoir is a Lecturer at the University College Cork. Her research interests include Irish women's writing, Irish and British eighteenth and nineteenth-century writing, the figure of the child in eighteenth-century Ireland, the novel in Ireland, and children's literature. Most recently, she has co-edited with Heather Ingman, A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Dr Ó Gallchoir is an expert on the work of Maria Edgeworth, who is the subject of her monograph, Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation (2005). In addition, she has published essays and articles on other women writers such as Sydney Owenson, Germaine de Stael, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mme de Genlis.