I received this book from O'Brien Press in exchange for an honest review.

Wild Irish Women is a wonderful collection of women who are Irish, or born of Irish parents, that have some way or another made a mark in history.There were so many women in this I have never heard of it - I think because Ireland is so small, and let's be honest, we don't have a great history of treating women with respect it;s easy to just focus on the very, very small group of women whose names have appeared sparsely in history books amongst the many, many men (Countess Markievicz, Maude Gonne, Grace O'Malley).

I thought this book was written and edited really, really well. Some of the women's chapters were longer than others which would happen in any sort of non-fiction collection, but each story whether it was 8 pages or 2 pages long grabbed my attention and kept it. The women were also grouped in manners of their interests - from writers to artists, to revolutionaries and politicians.

I also really liked that this did have some images and photographs of the women but the images were only in two sections of the book, and didn't take the attention away from the stories. I think this would be a really good book for people who may be tired of reading the picture books that are popular now for feminists and rebel women in history, and want to focus more on words rather than the pretty illustrations.

A wonderful book and one I would recommend to all Irish people, and anyone that is just interested in women that made a mark but aren't often spoken about.