The Irish Womens Movement

Author : Linda Connolly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230509126
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Women’s Movement written by Linda Connolly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-11-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, consolidation and development of the Irish women's movement, as a social movement, in the course of the twentieth century. It seek to address several lacunae in Irish studies by illuminating the processes through which the movement and, in particular, networks of constituent organisations, came to fruition as agencies of social change. The central argument advanced is that when viewed historically, the Irish women's movement is characterised by its interconnectedness and continuity: the central tensions, themes and organising strategies of the movement connects diverse organisations and constituencies, over time and space. This book will be essential reading for those interested in Irish studies, sociology, history, women's studies, and politics.

Author : Linda Connolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788551533
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Irish Revolution written by Linda Connolly and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of the Irish revolution as a chronology of great men and male militarism, with women presumed to have either played a subsidiary role or no role at all, requires constant renewal. Women and feminists were extremely active in Irish revolutionary causes from 1912 onwards, but ultimately it was the men as revolutionary 'leaders' who took all the power, and indeed all the credit, after independence. Women from different backgrounds were activists in significant numbers and women across Ireland were profoundly impacted by the overall violence and tumult of the era, but they were then relegated to the private sphere, with the memory of their vital political and military role in the revolution forgotten and erased.Women and the Irish Revolution examines diverse aspects of women's experiences in the revolution after the Easter Rising. The complex role of women as activists, the detrimental impact of violence and social and political divisions on women, the role of women in the foundation of the new State, and dynamics of remembrance and forgetting are explored in detail. Important and timely, and featuring previously unpublished material, this book will prompt essential new

Author : Linda Connolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Women's Movement written by Linda Connolly and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an analysis of the emergence, consolidation and development of the Irish women's movement, as a social movement, in the course of the twentieth century.

Author : Senia Pašeta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047749
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918 written by Senia Pašeta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the experiences and activities of Irish nationalist women in the early twentieth century.

Author : Louise Ryan
Publisher : Irish Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1788550153
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Women and the Vote written by Louise Ryan and published by Irish Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book, reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Irish women being granted the right to vote, is the first comprehensive analysis of the Irish suffrage movement from its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings to when feminist militancy exploded on the streets of Dublin and Belfast in the early twentieth century. Younger, more militant suffragists took their cue from their British counterparts, two of whom travelled to Ireland to throw a hatchet into the carriage of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith on O’Connell Bridge in 1912 (missing him but grazing Home Rule leader John Redmond, who was in the same carriage; both politicians opposed giving women the Vote). Despite such dramatic publicity, and other non-violent campaigning, women’s suffrage was a minority interest in an Ireland more concerned with the issue of gaining independence from Britain. The particular complexity of the Irish struggle is explored with new perspectives on unionist and nationalist suffragists and the conflict between Home Rule and suffragism, campaigning for the vote in country towns, life in industrial Belfast, conflicting feminist views on the First World War, and the suffragist uncovering of sexual abuse and domestic violence, as well as the pioneering use of hunger strike as a political tool. The ultimate granting of the franchise in 1918 represented the end of a long-fought battle by Irish women for the right to equal citizenship, and the beginning of a new Ireland that continues to debate the rights and equality of its female citizens.

Author : Linda Connolly
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1788551559
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Irish Revolution written by Linda Connolly and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of the Irish revolution as a chronology of great men and male militarism, with women presumed to have either played a subsidiary role or no role at all, requires reconsideration. Women and feminists were extremely active in Irish revolutionary causes from 1912 onwards, but ultimately it was the men as revolutionary ‘leaders’ who took all the power, and indeed all the credit, after independence. Women from different backgrounds were activists in significant numbers and women across Ireland were profoundly impacted by the overall violence and tumult of the era, but they were then relegated to the private sphere, with the memory of their vital political and military role in the revolution forgotten and erased. Women and the Irish Revolution examines diverse aspects of women’s experiences in the revolution after the Easter Rising. The complex role of women as activists, the detrimental impact of violence and social and political divisions on women, the role of women in the foundation of the new State, and dynamics of remembrance and forgetting are explored in detail by leading scholars in sociology, history, politics, and literary studies. Important and timely, and featuring previously unpublished material, this book will prompt essential new public conversations on the experiences of women in the Irish revolution.

Author : Louise Ryan
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1788551117
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Women and Nationalism written by Louise Ryan and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Irish nationalism have been primarily historical in scope and overwhelmingly male in content. Too often, the ‘shadow of the gunman’ has dominated. Little recognition has been given to the part women have played, yet over the centuries they have undertaken a variety of roles – as combatants, prisoners, writers and politicians. In this exciting new book the full range of women’s contribution to the Irish nationalist movement is explored by writers whose interests range from the historical and sociological to the literary and cultural. From the little known contribution of women to the earliest nationalist uprisings of the 1600s and 1700s, to their active participation in the republican campaigns of the twentieth century, different chapters consider the changing contexts of female militancy and the challenge this has posed to masculine images and structures. Using a wide range of sources, including textual analysis, archives and documents, newspapers and autobiographies, interviews and action research, individual writers examine sensitive and highly complex debates around women’s role in situations of conflict. At the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, this is a major contribution to wider feminist debates about the gendering of nationalism, raising questions about the extent to which women’s rights, demands and concerns can ever be fully accommodated within nationalist movements.

Author : Anne Stopper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mondays at Gaj's written by Anne Stopper and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named for the day and place of their first meetings, Monday's at Gaj's is the story of Ireland's first radical women's rights organization based on a series of personal interviews with the activists themselves.

Author : Rosita Sweetman
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781177589
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism Backwards written by Rosita Sweetman and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism Backwards is part memoir, part documentary. A founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement Rosita Sweetman gleefully recalls the triumphs – and the tribulations – of trying to drag a reluctant Ireland into the 20th Century, crucially, re-appraising Chains or Change the IWLM's famous pamphlet, detailing what life was like for women in 1970s Ireland - appalling. Feminism Backwards is also a howl of despair at how women have been treated worldwide down through the centuries, and how misogyny and sexual repression got such a stranglehold on Ireland. Having a survived a marriage break up Rosita re-found her feminism sadly buried, along with her chutzpah. She passionately believes feminism is not about blaming men, or pushing a few women to the top so they can be 'she-men' for the patriarchy. It's about creating a world fit for everyone.

Author : Sinéad McCoole
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299195007
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Ordinary Women written by Sinéad McCoole and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constance Markievicz had some advice for women activists: 'Leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.' Most of the women who became involved in the fight for Ireland's freedom did not have jewels to swap for guns, but the change in their circumstances and lives would be just as radical. Setting aside their roles as dutiful daughters, wives, and mothers, they became dispatch carriers, gunrunners, spies. Guns in hand, they fought alongside their male comrades in arms, displaying a courage and resolution that astonished and sometimes offended public opinion of the time." "What they were doing was considered 'unladylike and disreputable' - a notion that explains why their stories became hidden histories; in many cases families were unaware that their great-aunts and grannies had prison records." "But the evidence is there in their prison diaries and autograph books, in the graffiti that remain on the walls of Kilmainham Gaol, and in the archive lists of women prisoners of 1916, the War of Independence, and the Civil War. From this wealth of material and interviews with survivors, Sinead McCoole has produced a portrait of the girls and women whose indomitable spirit overcame hunger strikes, harsh prison conditions, and the tragedy of huge personal loss."--BOOK JACKET.