Eavan Boland leads a workshop for women writers at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
In an ideal world a writer's workshop would cater for both women and men, but this is not the case, says its director Eavan Boland, who believes that over the last four decades, women have,
Become separated from the traditional literary establishment.
Mary Morissey maintains that gender should not be an issue for writers, but work needs to be done to create a level playing field where men and women can all be considered as writers together.
For poet Roz Cowman this time in Annaghmakerrig County Monaghan has been immensely useful. Women do not always feel supported by male writers and may have difficulties expressing themselves in fornt of men.
The demands placed on many women during the years when they are raising their families means that writing is put on hold until their children have grown up. Rosemarie Rowley believes that individual men can champion women writers by
Appreciating and encouraging our work.
This episode of 'The Women’s Programme’ was broadcast on 13 December 1985. The reporter is Ingrid Miley.
The Women's Programme was jointly presented by Marian Finucane and Doireann Ni Bhriain and was a weekly magazine programme run and presented entirely by women for women. Broadcast every Monday at 9.30pm on RTE 1, the first programme was aired on 24 October, 1983.
The team behind the programme included Nuala O'Faolain who had previously worked on the "Women Talking" series. Also involved in producing the show was Claire Duignan who was responsible for the Today Tonight programmes on rape, divorce and child abuse. Duignan was also the original producer of Women Today on RTE Radio 1.
