The Female Line: An Anthology of Northern Irish Women Writers

The Female Line: Northern Irish Women Writers, edited by Ruth Hooley, was first published in 1985 by the Northern Ireland Women's Movement.

In 2016, The Female Line has been republished as an ebook, with a new Preface by Ruth Carr (formerly Hooley). Its reissue makes the anthology available to a new generation of readers and ensures its place in the record of women's writing and publication in the north of Ireland.

Authors included:

Fiona Barr

Mary Beckett

Evelyn Berman

Shirley Bork

Geraldine Bradley

Francine Cunningham

Anne Devlin

Polly Devlin

Dorothy Gharbaoui

Ann W. Cleave

Christine Hammond

Ruth Hooley

Anne Jago

Maura Johnston

Jennifer Johnston

Marie Jones

Eileen Kelly

Jan Kennedy

Kate Madden

Stella Mahon

Patricia Mallon

Sandra Marshall

Frances McEnaney

Mary McGowan

Medbh McGuckian

Jill McKenna

Blanaid McKinney

Janet McNeill

Elizabeth Miller

Frances Molloy

Sheila Mulvenna

Brenda Murphy

Anne Noble

Christina Reid

Geraldine Reid

Anne-Marie Reilly

Delia Rimington

Bernadette Ross

Carol Scanlon

Janet Shepperson

Laura Shier

Anne Strain

Anne Tannahill

Mary Twomey

Una Woods