About the Author

Lucy McDiarmid's scholarly interest in cultural politics, especially quirky, colourful, suggestive episodes, is exemplified by The Irish Art of Controversy (2005) and Poets and the Peacock Dinner: the literary history of a meal (2014). She is a past president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and a former fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Reviews

'Few books published for the centenary of 1916 will be as original, as entertaining, as thoroughly researched or as well written as this analysis of women’s words, ideas and actions during the Easter Rising and the Howth gun-running that preceded it'.
*At Home in the Revolution review: the Rising’s clan na gals*

'In the torrent of history books published to mark the 1916 centenary, a small number will stand out as worthy of repeated reprint. Lucy McDiarmid’s At Home In The Revolution is one of those books. Its concept is innovative, its substance is enlightening and surprising, and its style and production are a joy to read and hold'.
*Seeing the Rising from a female perspective*

'The book is at once a political study of shifting gender relations as well as a thoroughly researched, vivid, emotional, and often comic look at forgotten stories of the Rising that will entertain as much as it will enlighten'.
*Adam Farley*

'This work is an exemplar of how to do and write women’s history. Although bookshelves may be groaning with the weight of 1916-themed books this is one book no one interested in the 1916 Rising can be without'.
*Mary McAuliffe*

‘There’s a particular pleasure in the well-told anecdote. But in historical scholarship, “well-told” also involves finding the larger meaning of the individual episode. At this, Lucy McDiarmid [...] clearly excels’.
*Shelf Life*