Eva Gore-Booth

There can be few other examples of an Irish literary figure being so overshadowed by a sibling, as Eva Gore-Booth. Her non-literary sister, Constance Markievicz, is known far and wide as a glamorous, heroic figure - Ireland's Joan of Arc whereas Eva is known chiefly as the writer of  "The Little Waves of Breffny" . Perhaps the wider audience, which a web site offers, might go some way to balance this injustice. What follows is not academic criticism or literary biography but an attempt to bring to life a neglected feature of Ireland's rich, and up to very recently, male dominated, literary history.