Fearless woman : Hanna Sheeny Skeffington, feminism and the Irish revolution /
By: Ward, Margaret [author.].
Publisher: Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2019Description: lvi, 496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781910820407; 9781910820407:; 1910820407.Subject(s): Sheehy-Skeffington, Hanna | Women -- Political activity -- Ireland -- History | Feminism -- Ireland -- History | Feminism -- Ireland -- Biography | Ireland -- Social conditions -- History | IrelandDDC classification: 305.42092Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 305.42092 WAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082368 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-478) and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Family tree -- Hana Sheehy Skeffington's life and times -- Suffrage friends and colleagues of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington -- Early years: 1877-1900 -- The making of a feminist : 1900-03 -- Partnership : 1903-08 -- A feminist mother : 1908-10 -- The stone and the shillelagh : 1910-1912 -- Outlaws : 1912-14 -- 'Rolling up the map of suffrage' : 1914-1916 -- Death of a pacifist : 1916 -- Challenging the empire : 1917-18 -- A feminist Sinn Féiner : 1918-21 -- Republican envoy : 1921-5 -- The struggle continues : 1925-32 -- Feminism, republicanism, communism : 1932-7 -- 'The seed beneath the snow' : 1937-46.
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was the most significant feminist in twentieth-century Ireland - an activist, writer and polemicist of the highest rank. An advocate of feminism, socialism, and republicanism, her writings - published in Britain and America as well as Ireland - transcended national boundaries. In these pages we experience the excitement of the suffrage years, anti-war campaigns, prison experiences, the impact of the brutal killing of her husband, meetings with Prime Minister Asquith and President Wilson, the bitter years of civil war, impressions of Bolshevik Russia, inter-war Europe, her friendship with Constance Markievicz, debates with Sean O'Casey, and her involvement in feminist campaigns against the exclusion of women from public life during the 1930s and 1940s.