Irish feminist scholars have recently formulated a distinctive history for feminism in Ireland. Margaret Ward posits a historically and politically determined, singularly Irish feminism: ‘For women in Ireland, the Act of Union of 1800 not only defined the […] relationship between Britain and Ireland, it also […] ensured a differentiation of Irish from British feminism’. This “Union of hearts”, as it was referred to, with all of the unequal power and privilege such an alliance implied, made for a particular kind of experience of gender and nation in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century. Many Irish writers associated with the phenomenon of the New Woman. We will consider work by Katharine Tynan, Eva Gore-Booth, Alice Milligan, George Egerton, Hannah Lynch, and Sarah Grand.