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This article uses documents – recipe book, account book and will – produced by Dorothy Parsons (1640–1670), born in Birr, County Offaly, to argue that she actively utilises the emergent genres of account book and recipe book to produce and maintain her family identity during the disruptive years of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Rather than reading these texts for evidence or content, this article examines textual process and materiality, looking at compilation and copying practices, networks and social context in order to position her writing as implicated in questions of land use, trade, ownership and future territorial claims. The article suggests that life writing needs to be understood in an expansive way with regard to form, and with regard to the representation of identity, and asserts that such texts encode a complex interplay between individual and familial or communal identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland Elizabeth Grubgeld Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xi + 170 pp. Grubgeld outlines how Irish disability life writers' main battle is not against the constraints of the body, but against the constraints and the mostly limited expectations imposed by society. [Extracted from the article]

Purpose: The paper aims to analyse the published work of Ireland's pre-eminent public relations (PR) educator, across a number of literary genres in which he has written. More broadly, it considers the writing life of academics. Design/methodology/approach: This paper examines Carty's writings about his own history, Irish history, the development of church-state relations in Ireland and PR. It seeks to make connections between Carty's subjects and his writing styles. Findings: Through detailed analysis of a number of key texts, the paper explores the writing styles used by Carty to discern the nature of his distinctive "voice(s)". Research limitations/implications: There is considerable research into a handful of (mostly American) "great men" in PR' history and development. But every nation has its own PR pioneers about whom little is known outside that country and who deserve to be more widely recognised. Originality/value: This paper hopes to stimulate future work by other colleagues in other nations, reflecting on the contribution of their own PR educators and practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Overall, I Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland i is an outstanding analysis that seamlessly connects Irish history with the disability experience, just as disability is interwoven with all history throughout time. Keywords: Irish literature; life writing; memoir EN Irish literature life writing memoir N.PAG N.PAG 1 04/03/21 20210101 NES 210101 Elizabeth Grubgeld's book, I Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland i , explores the convergence of the literary narrative genre, the history of Ireland's emergence as a nation state, and the role disability plays in the lives of Irish disabled writers both famous in international circles and those with more local notoriety. [Extracted from the article]