Susan Marie Martin PhD
@susanmariemartin.bsky.social
Dublin’s Women Street Traders, 1882-1932 available to preorder Four Courts Press. Also wrote The Shawlies. Areas: women street traders, urban margins & relevant SDGs. Foucault, Historical Sociology. Global nomad (4 continents, 6 countries).
Tuesday in the stacks. My happy place (&sentiment) in the wake of a public school board in Alberta banning 200 books. One is Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale 4 sexually explicit content. Apparently the sexual exploitation of women should not be part of the curriculum. Tragic. #TorontoReferenceLibrary
September 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tuesday in the stacks. My happy place (&sentiment) in the wake of a public school board in Alberta banning 200 books. One is Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale 4 sexually explicit content. Apparently the sexual exploitation of women should not be part of the curriculum. Tragic. #TorontoReferenceLibrary
Today’s read is a revisit picked up last summer from @fourcourtspress as part of my research for ‘civic evil’ and civil disobedience. I had discovered that Sarah Cecilia Harrison was a strong advocate of women street traders and other pro-poor food supply chains including allotments….
August 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Today’s read is a revisit picked up last summer from @fourcourtspress as part of my research for ‘civic evil’ and civil disobedience. I had discovered that Sarah Cecilia Harrison was a strong advocate of women street traders and other pro-poor food supply chains including allotments….
The cover of my forthcoming book features this gorgeous photo of the mkt at St. Patrick’s Close (late 19thC) generously provided by the @nlireland.bsky.social . Jonathan Swift (satirist, Dean of St. Patrick’s) was a regular there & recognized how critical earnings were for women street traders.
August 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The cover of my forthcoming book features this gorgeous photo of the mkt at St. Patrick’s Close (late 19thC) generously provided by the @nlireland.bsky.social . Jonathan Swift (satirist, Dean of St. Patrick’s) was a regular there & recognized how critical earnings were for women street traders.
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster, 2018).
July 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster, 2018).
These drawings were published in Dublin’s Evening Telegraph on 22 September 1906 following the arbitration hearings for street traders displaced from St. Patrick’s in advance of the Iveagh Markets opening in 1907.
November 24, 2024 at 6:49 PM
These drawings were published in Dublin’s Evening Telegraph on 22 September 1906 following the arbitration hearings for street traders displaced from St. Patrick’s in advance of the Iveagh Markets opening in 1907.