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Wild Irish Roses: Tales of Brigits, Kathleens, and Warrior Queens
Wild Irish Roses: Tales of Brigits, Kathleens, and Warrior Queens
Wild Irish Roses: Tales of Brigits, Kathleens, and Warrior Queens
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Wild Irish Roses: Tales of Brigits, Kathleens, and Warrior Queens

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A look at the wild Irish women throughout history from the ancient warrior queens Morrigan, Macha, and Badbh, to the labor-movement maven Mother Jones.

The women in Wild Irish Roses are not always nice girls or even good girls. However, they are women with backbones of steel who know how to get things done, whether on the battlefield or in the bedroom. These are women who preserved and handed down the old stories. They are women who fought in revolutions with either gun or pen, wrote books, starred in books others wrote, and stormed heaven itself.

Author Trina Robbins is an impeccable researcher whose knack for telling stories and embellishing them with engaging illustrations and photos, brings each of these Wild Irish Roses to life, including:
  • Maeve and six other warrior queens
  • Grania and Deirdre, who ran away from kings for the love of younger men
  • Five women who turned themselves into birds to get the job done right
  • Saint Brigit and the saintly Kathleen O’Shea
  • Cultural revivalist Maude Gonne and friends
  • Irish American beauty roses, including Scarlett O’Hara
  • And warriors in their own right, such as Mother Jones and company


Wild Irish Roses is a celebration of tough, independent, beautiful Irish women from myth to modernity. It’s a book that is sure to entertain, inform, and inspire readers of every background to find the Irish rose in themselves—to discover what they want and have the courage to go out and get it.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 1, 2004
ISBN9781609257491
Wild Irish Roses: Tales of Brigits, Kathleens, and Warrior Queens
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Trina Robbins

Writer and feminist herstorian Trina Robbins wrote books, comics, and graphic novels for over 40 years. Her work includes The Brinkley Girls (Fantagraphics), Forbidden City: the Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs (Hampton Press), and the three-part YA series Chicagoland Detective Agency for Graphic Universe™.

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