Native Daughters

Women. Bigger-Than-Life. Women with a capital W. The Notables.

Maureen O'Hara
Cong and Glengarriff
Fiery or adamant or pious. 
Perhaps a bit crazy.

Inventive. 

Intelligent.
Intuitive.
Courageous.

Misbehaving Women. 
Mythic Women.
Persistent.
Definitely Dangerous 

Or Revolutionary 

Or Mystical 
 


Dylan and Caitlin Thomas
Ennistymon



Those women. 





Let's not forget the Everyday woman either. She completely occupies the domestic landscape. Women who married . . . or didn't. Women who gave birth . . or didn't. Women who believed . . . or didn't. 

Peig Sayer
The Blasket Islands
Women who fed, who nursed, who buried, and loved -- husbands, children, neighbors and  friends.
  
The common thread. Every Woman's story.
Lady Augusta Gregory
Coole Park, Gort