Aandacht voor het werkende leven van vrouwen in Ierland vanaf de zestiende tot begin twintigste eeuw. Bevat: Women and paid work in rural Ireland c. 1500-1800 / door Mary O'Dowd: Women and business in eighteenth-century Dublin: a case study / door Catherine Cox: Women and work in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland: an overview / door Maria Luddy: The nineteenth-century governess: image and reality / door Deirdre Raftery: The female industrial movement, 1845-52 / door Maura Cronin: Matrons in Mountjoy Female Convict Prison, 1858-83 / door Rena Lohan: Women in the medical profession in Ireland, 1876-1919 / door Irene Finn: Childcare arrangements within the Belfast linen community, 1890-1930 / door Jonathan Hamill: Flower power and 'mental grooviness': nurses and midwives in Ireland in the early twentieth century / door Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh.