User:Barbara Pivarcsi/sandbox

Wikipedia Identity created In 1909 she was offered a lecturer position at University College Dublin and after the offer was withdrawn she began her writing career. She produced over twenty books and published a number of works on religion, history of Ireland and Irish women's history. Her works were highly impacted by her political and nationalist views. Helena's 'analyses of Irish history was based on Catholicism and patriotism' (Paseta, 2005, Smith, 2006). She was also an advocate of Irish language restoration (Paseta, 2005). Her first writings were love poems to her husband. These poems were ‘simple, sensuous and passionate’ (Macken, 1953). She also produced a number of imaginative historical text for children. She used her married name for her publications and her first book was published in 1914 titled as A Garden of girls, or the famous schoolgirls of former days, it was about ‘school life and education of real little girls’ (Bourke, 2002). Her next well-known piece was The Life of st. Columban in 1915, which was a study about the Irish ancient monastic life and a biography of a sixth-century Two of her books, Daughters of Banba (1922) and St. Patrick (1932), received the Tailteann Medal for Literature, and The Poor Clares in Ireland (1929) won the National University Prize a DLitt higher doctorate degree for Historical Research (Macken, 1953, Encylopedia.com). Her most common publication The Women of Ninety-Eight was dedicated to all the dead women and all the living ones who have given their loved ones (Concannon, 1919) This book emerged on the ideologies of Catholicism and patriotism “praising the devotion of Irish nationalist women while emphasizing the centrality of women's spiritual and domestic role in the home to the well-being of the nation” (Paseta, 2005) As this work was written during the time of War of Independence, Helena Concannon stressed the importance of women help during the rebellion as “they acted as messengers and intelligence officers”, and in some cases, they fought as any men (Kennedy, 2004:14)