Though she was also a teacher, playwright, and journalist, Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) is best known today as the author of The Irish Republic, a groundbreaking history of the Irish War of Independence, and the novels The Uninvited and The Unforeseen, recently reissued to wide acclaim. Leeann Lane's biography of this underappreciated figure examines her literary output but also foregrounds her lifelong commitment to feminist...