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Irish women & nationalism : soldiers, new women and wicked hags /

Contributor(s): Ryan, Louise, 1965- [editor.] | Ward, Margaret, 1950- [editor.].
Publisher: Newbridge, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 2019Edition: New edition.Description: xx, 239 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781788550970; 9781788550970; 1788550978.Other title: Irish women and nationalism.Subject(s): Women -- Political activity -- Ireland | Women -- Political activity -- Ireland -- History | Women political activists -- Ireland -- History | Nationalism -- Ireland | Ireland -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 320.5408209415
Contents:
Foreword to the original edition / Sinéad McCoole -- Foreword to the new edition / Marie Coleman -- Introduction / Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward -- Testimonies to history : reassessing women's involvement in the 1641 rising / Andrea Knox -- Revolution in Ireland, evolution in women's rights : Irish women in 1798 and 1848 / Jan Cannavan -- 'In the line of fire' : representations of women and war (1919-1923) through the writings of republican men / Louise Ryan -- Constance Markievicz and the politics of memory / Karen Steele -- Representations and attitudes of republican women in the novels of Annie M. P. Smithson (1873-1948) and Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960) / Danae O'Regan -- 'And behind him a wicked hag did stalk' : from maiden to mother, Ireland as woman through the male psyche / Jayne Steel -- 'We had to be stronger' : the political imprisonment of women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1999 / Mary Corcoran -- Female combatants, paramilitary prisoners and the development of feminism in the republican movement / Rhiannon Talbot -- Narratives of political activism from women in West Belfast / Claire Hackett -- The emergence of a gender consciousness: women and community work in West Belfast / Callie Persic -- Times of transition: republican women, feminism and political representation / Margaret Ward.
Summary: In this text, 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword to the original edition / Sinéad McCoole -- Foreword to the new edition / Marie Coleman -- Introduction / Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward -- Testimonies to history : reassessing women's involvement in the 1641 rising / Andrea Knox -- Revolution in Ireland, evolution in women's rights : Irish women in 1798 and 1848 / Jan Cannavan -- 'In the line of fire' : representations of women and war (1919-1923) through the writings of republican men / Louise Ryan -- Constance Markievicz and the politics of memory / Karen Steele -- Representations and attitudes of republican women in the novels of Annie M. P. Smithson (1873-1948) and Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960) / Danae O'Regan -- 'And behind him a wicked hag did stalk' : from maiden to mother, Ireland as woman through the male psyche / Jayne Steel -- 'We had to be stronger' : the political imprisonment of women in Northern Ireland, 1972-1999 / Mary Corcoran -- Female combatants, paramilitary prisoners and the development of feminism in the republican movement / Rhiannon Talbot -- Narratives of political activism from women in West Belfast / Claire Hackett -- The emergence of a gender consciousness: women and community work in West Belfast / Callie Persic -- Times of transition: republican women, feminism and political representation / Margaret Ward.

In this text, 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.

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