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The WEB Women Writers<em>&#8216;<\/em>\u00a0Group, which emerged from the Arlen House initiative, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span>has met continuously ever since<span>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Keen to celebrate WEB\u2019s work and to honour Eavan Boland, who inspired the group&#8217;s beginnings, and had a connection with the county of D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown; dlr Libraries are delighted to collaborate with these writers and Arlen House to publish\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>an anthology of their work.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>This anthology will include work in many genres and in both Irish and English, an indication of <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span>the extent of Eavan Boland\u2019s influence on contemporary Irish writing. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The book launch takes place on Saturday 16th September at 3.00pm, in dlr LexIcon, D\u00fan Laoghaire.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>A programme of events will follow the launch of this publication as we head into what would have been Eavan Boland&#8217;s 80th year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26444,"template":"","class_list":["post-26443","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tearing Stripes off Zebras : an anthology from the WEB Women Writers&#039; Group - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 1985 the feminist publishing house Arlen House ran a course led by the renowned poet Eavan Boland.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/tearing-stripes-off-zebras-an-anthology-from-the-web-women-writers-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tearing Stripes off Zebras : an anthology from the WEB Women Writers&#039; Group - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 1985 the feminist publishing house Arlen House ran a course led by the renowned poet Eavan Boland. 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