No ordinary women : Irish female activists in the revolutionary years 1900-1923 / Sinéad McCoole.
Publication details: Dublin : The O'Brien Press, 2015.Description: 320 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781847177896 : (pbk.)
- 23 941.5082
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | Irish Collection | 941.5082 MCC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000414210 |
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.
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