BOOKS / 'Image and Experience: Photographs of Irishwomen 1880-1920' - Myrtle Hill & Vivienne Pollock: Blackstaff Press, 14.95

Vegetable sellers, Co Cork, 1890, from Image and Experience: Photographs of Irishwomen 1880-1920 by Myrtle Hill & Vivienne Pollock (Blackstaff Press pounds 14.95), a vivid photo-documentary of women at a time of social upheaval - in hovels or neat parlours, barefoot and gun-toting or primly corseted, in gruelling work or at leisure