Book review: Irish women's speeches second installment is absorbing 

There is a glorious theatrical quality to Sonja Tiernan’s new book, Irish Women’s Speeches, Volume II, Clodagh Finn writes 

Journalist and author Nuala O’Faolain, (in Dublin in 1996) is luminous and hilarious on her writing process: ‘It’s trickling out backwards.’ Picture: Marc O’Sullivan

• Irish Women’s Speeches, Volume II: A rich chorus of voices
• Sonja Tiernan
• UCD Press, €25