No ordinary women :
McCoole, Sinéad.
No ordinary women : Irish female activists in the revolutionary years 1900-1923 / Sinéad McCoole. - Dublin : The O'Brien Press, 2015. - 320 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Originally published in 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction by Margaret Ward -- Foreword: Finding women -- 1. Women activists (1900-1916) -- 2. The women of the Rising -- 3. Women and the road to independence (1917-1921) -- 4. The Civil war (1922-1923) -- Biographies -- Appendix 1: Prisoner list - 1916 -- Appendix 2: Prisoner list - civil war -- Notes -- Bibliography --- Picture credits -- Index.
The story of the Irish revolutionary period in the early twentieth century from the perspective of female activists. This book highlights a time when vast numbers of Irish women were politicised and imprisoned for their beliefs, with a special emphasis on one prison, Kilmainham Gaol. The women portrayed in the book represent all walks of life: shop assistants, doctors, housewives, laundry workers, artists, teachers. There were married women, mothers, single and widowed women and even mere schoolchildren. They played a full role in the revolutions, acting as spies, couriers, snipers, gun-runners, medics, and endured the full rigours of prison life.
9781847177896 : (pbk.)
Women--History--Ireland--20th century.
Women revolutionaries--History--Ireland--20th century.
Women revolutionaries--Ireland--Biography.
941.5082
No ordinary women : Irish female activists in the revolutionary years 1900-1923 / Sinéad McCoole. - Dublin : The O'Brien Press, 2015. - 320 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Originally published in 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction by Margaret Ward -- Foreword: Finding women -- 1. Women activists (1900-1916) -- 2. The women of the Rising -- 3. Women and the road to independence (1917-1921) -- 4. The Civil war (1922-1923) -- Biographies -- Appendix 1: Prisoner list - 1916 -- Appendix 2: Prisoner list - civil war -- Notes -- Bibliography --- Picture credits -- Index.
The story of the Irish revolutionary period in the early twentieth century from the perspective of female activists. This book highlights a time when vast numbers of Irish women were politicised and imprisoned for their beliefs, with a special emphasis on one prison, Kilmainham Gaol. The women portrayed in the book represent all walks of life: shop assistants, doctors, housewives, laundry workers, artists, teachers. There were married women, mothers, single and widowed women and even mere schoolchildren. They played a full role in the revolutions, acting as spies, couriers, snipers, gun-runners, medics, and endured the full rigours of prison life.
9781847177896 : (pbk.)
Women--History--Ireland--20th century.
Women revolutionaries--History--Ireland--20th century.
Women revolutionaries--Ireland--Biography.
941.5082