No ordinary women : Irish female activists in the revolutionary years, 1900-1923 / Sinéad McCoole.
Publication details: Dublin : O'Brien, 2003.Description: 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0862788137 (hardcover)
- 941.5082 23
- DA965.A1 M335 2003
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | Irish Reserve | 941.5082 MCC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000413736 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-278) 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.
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