After publishing the biography of Walter Starkie in 2014, in which Jacqueline Hurtley showed her interest and insight on Irish writers who lived in and wrote about Spain, she has now turned her attention to the Irish writer and journalist Hannah Lynch (1859-1904). In collaboration with Pere Gifra-Adroher, this book complements Binckes and Laing’s biographical account of Hannah Lynch 1859-1904: Irish Writer, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, recently published. Both books coincide in the inclusion of the term “New Woman” in the title, as it would mark Lynch’s entire literary and journalistic career. As it happened with the Match Girls and the Ladies’ Land League, the Irish New Woman turned out to be a cultural sensation at the end of the 19th century since this group experimented with the female character in their literary production and “the specific context of this foundational group of New Woman writers at that particular point in Irish history facilitated their breach with the dominant culture, giving them the impetus and the tools to construct alternate social realities in their fiction” (O’Toole 2013: 2). By the time Hannan Lynch sojourned in the country, Spain’s economy was mostly based on agriculture and the colonial disaster of 1898 and the rise of the Catalan independent movement elicited a reversal of Spanish self-identity as a global power to the emergence of a decadent self-perception. The already well-established links between Ireland and Spain were not exclusively military, trading or religious, and the extensive Irish commercial activity in Spain played “an important role in the industrialization of Andalusia in the 19th century” (García-Álvarez de la Villa and Terry 2016: 79). By this time, the interest in Spain was not exclusive of British Romantic travellers in the 19th