Book review: Women’s Voices in Ireland

Academic Catriona Clear uses women’s magazines to shine a light on Irish lives in the 1950s and 60s when the level of ignorance about sex and ‘worldly matters’ was disturbingly high. Colette Sheridan gains an insight.

Sat, 20 Feb, 2016 - 00:00

Review: Colette Sheridan

Catriona Clear

Bloomsbury

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