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Volume 44, 2015 - Issue 7: Irish Women's Writing & Experience, Part II
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“The most haunting bird”: Unbeing and Illegibility in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing

Maureen O’ConnorUniversity College Cork, IrelandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 940-955 | Published online: 14 Oct 2015

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