Irish Women At War

Author : Gillian McIntosh,Diane Urquhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556040798720

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Irish Women at War by Gillian McIntosh,Diane Urquhart Pdf

This book assessed the impact of conflict on women in 20th century Ireland, and how women responded to and influenced these conflicts. Their roles ranged from combatants, pioneers and workers, victims and survivors, prisoners, poets, playwrights and artists. Drawing on original research from a range of international scholars, this book considers women and war through a myriad of themes- militarism, morality, political activism and motherhood- through the lens of a variety of sources. Whatever their socio-economic or political background, a common thread of engagement links Irish women in wartime as they challenged and changed societies subsumed by hostilities.

Author : Fionnuala Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491204

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Irish Women and the Great War by Fionnuala Walsh Pdf

The first full-length study to explore the impact of the Great War on the lives of women in Ireland. Fionnuala Walsh examines women's mobilisation for the war effort, and the impact of the war on their employment opportunities, family and domestic life, social morality and politicisation.

Author : Jennifer Redmond,Elaine Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000145083

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Irish Women in the First World War Era by Jennifer Redmond,Elaine Farrell Pdf

This book is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on Irish women’s experiences in the First World War period, 1914-18, across the island of Ireland, contextualising the wartime realities of women’s lives in a changing political landscape. The essays consider experiences ranging from the everyday realities of poverty and deprivation, to the contributions made to the war effort by women through philanthropy and by working directly with refugees. Gendered norms and assumptions about women’s behaviour are critically analysed, from the rhetoric surrounding ‘separation women’ and their use of alcohol, to the navigation of public spaces and the attempts to deter women from perceived immoral behaviour. Political life is also examined by leading scholars in the field, including accounts from women on both sides of the ‘Irish question’ and the impact the war had on their activism and ambitions. Finally, new light is shed on the experiences of women working in munitions factories around Ireland and the complexity of this work in the Irish context is explored. Throughout, it is asserted that while there were many commonalities in women’s experiences throughout the British and Irish Isles at this time, the particular political context of Ireland added a different, and in many respects an unexamined, dimension. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Author : Mary Muldowney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0716528878

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The Second World War and Irish Women by Mary Muldowney Pdf

Based on interviews with over thirty Irish women, this book covers their experiences during the Second World War years and how the war impacted on them in terms of their public and private roles. Themes such as class and income, employment, health, and housing are covered, arising from the women's recollections and international research into women and war. The women, from a variety of family and social backgrounds, mainly lived and worked in Belfast and Dublin between 1939 and 1945, but some of them went to Britain to take up war work. The women's own stories are compared with contemporary observations from a number of sources, including the Mass-Observation diary of Belfast woman, Moya Woodside. Other comparisons are made with newspaper commentaries and the files of government and other public bodies responsible for shaping social policy. The book shows that despite the many restrictions that the interviewees faced, in terms of access to education, employment opportunities, and to equal treatment in a number of spheres, most of them overcame the obstacles in their way, some of which were considerable. Although the research demonstrated that in economic, political, and social terms the war did not make any significant impact on Irish women, the evidence of the individuals who contributed their memories showed that it offered them opportunities to 'spread their wings', as one of the women described her activities. The book also compares the position of Irish women with their contemporaries in other western countries. While there has been a lot of research on the topic of women and war in other countries, no comparable work has yet been carried out here. Ã?Â?Ã?Â?

Author : Jennifer Redmond,Elaine Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367322358

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Irish Women in the First World War Era by Jennifer Redmond,Elaine Farrell Pdf

This book is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on Irish women's experiences in the First World War period, 1914-18, across the island of Ireland, contextualising the wartime realities of women's lives in a changing political landscape. The essays consider experiences ranging from the everyday realities of poverty and deprivation, to the contributions made to the war effort by women through philanthropy and by working directly with refugees. Gendered norms and assumptions about women's behaviour are critically analysed, from the rhetoric surrounding 'separation women' and their use of alcohol, to the navigation of public spaces and the attempts to deter women from perceived immoral behaviour. Political life is also examined by leading scholars in the field, including accounts from women on both sides of the 'Irish question' and the impact the war had on their activism and ambitions. Finally, new light is shed on the experiences of women working in munitions factories around Ireland and the complexity of this work in the Irish context is explored. Throughout, it is asserted that while there were many commonalities in women's experiences throughout the British and Irish Isles at this time, the particular political context of Ireland added a different, and in many respects an unexamined, dimension. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review. ries around Ireland and the complexity of this work in the Irish context is explored. Throughout, it is asserted that while there were many commonalities in women's experiences throughout the British and Irish Isles at this time, the particular political context of Ireland added a different, and in many respects an unexamined, dimension. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review.

Author : Louise Ryan,Margaret Ward
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788551113

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Irish Women and Nationalism by Louise Ryan,Margaret Ward Pdf

Studies of Irish nationalism have been primarily historical in scope and overwhelmingly male in content. Too often, the ‘shadow of the gunman’ has dominated. Little recognition has been given to the part women have played, yet over the centuries they have undertaken a variety of roles – as combatants, prisoners, writers and politicians. In this exciting new book 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. From the little known contribution of women to the earliest nationalist uprisings of the 1600s and 1700s, to their active participation in the republican campaigns of the twentieth century, different chapters consider the changing contexts of female militancy and the challenge this has posed to masculine images and structures. Using a wide range of sources, including textual analysis, archives and documents, newspapers and autobiographies, interviews and action research, individual writers examine sensitive and highly complex debates around women’s role in situations of conflict. At the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, this is a major contribution to wider feminist debates about the gendering of nationalism, raising questions about the extent to which women’s rights, demands and concerns can ever be fully accommodated within nationalist movements.

Author : Jennifer Redmond,Elaine Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1122725281

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Special Issue: Irish Women in the First World War Era by Jennifer Redmond,Elaine Farrell Pdf

Author : Sinéad McCoole
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299195007

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No Ordinary Women by Sinéad McCoole Pdf

"Constance Markievicz had some advice for women activists: 'Leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.' Most of the women who became involved in the fight for Ireland's freedom did not have jewels to swap for guns, but the change in their circumstances and lives would be just as radical. Setting aside their roles as dutiful daughters, wives, and mothers, they became dispatch carriers, gunrunners, spies. Guns in hand, they fought alongside their male comrades in arms, displaying a courage and resolution that astonished and sometimes offended public opinion of the time." "What they were doing was considered 'unladylike and disreputable' - a notion that explains why their stories became hidden histories; in many cases families were unaware that their great-aunts and grannies had prison records." "But the evidence is there in their prison diaries and autograph books, in the graffiti that remain on the walls of Kilmainham Gaol, and in the archive lists of women prisoners of 1916, the War of Independence, and the Civil War. From this wealth of material and interviews with survivors, Sinead McCoole has produced a portrait of the girls and women whose indomitable spirit overcame hunger strikes, harsh prison conditions, and the tragedy of huge personal loss."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Damian Shiels
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752491974

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The Irish in the American Civil War by Damian Shiels Pdf

Just under 200,000 Irishmen took part in the American Civil War, making it one of the most significant conflicts in Irish history. Hundreds of thousands more were affected away from the battlefield, both in the US and in Ireland itself. The Irish contribution, however, is often only viewed through the lens of famous units such as the Irish Brigade, but the real story is much more complex and fascinating. From the Tipperary man who was the first man to die in the war, to the Corkman who was the last General mortally wounded in action; from the flag bearer who saved his regimental colours at the cost of his arms, to the Roscommon man who led the hunt for Abraham Lincoln's assassin, what emerges in this book is a catalogue of gallantry, sacrifice and bravery.

Author : Susan Wiggs
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780778316466

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The Maiden of Ireland by Susan Wiggs Pdf

To save himself from the hangman's noose, John Wesley Hawkins agrees to infiltrate the Irish resistance against English rule by seducing the rebels' secrets from Caitlin MacBride, a headstrong Irishwoman who spurns his advances, making no secret of her loyalty to her countrymen. Original.

Author : Myrtle Hill
Publisher : Blackstaff Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Women
ISBN : UVA:X004770102

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Women in Ireland by Myrtle Hill Pdf

The 20th century was a time of extraordinary change for the women of Ireland. It began with a ferment of agitation for women's rights and continued with the struggle for Home Rule, with women engaged on both sides during the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. Remarkable women emerged from the maelstrom: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Maud Gonne and Constance Markievicz. The eruption of civil conflict in the British-ruled North in 1969 again divided women among themselves, with Bernadette Devlin, Mariead Corrigan and Monica McWilliams representing different strands of the struggle.

Author : Linda Connolly
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788551557

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Women and the Irish Revolution by Linda Connolly Pdf

The narrative of the Irish revolution as a chronology of great men and male militarism, with women presumed to have either played a subsidiary role or no role at all, requires reconsideration. Women and feminists were extremely active in Irish revolutionary causes from 1912 onwards, but ultimately it was the men as revolutionary ‘leaders’ who took all the power, and indeed all the credit, after independence. Women from different backgrounds were activists in significant numbers and women across Ireland were profoundly impacted by the overall violence and tumult of the era, but they were then relegated to the private sphere, with the memory of their vital political and military role in the revolution forgotten and erased. Women and the Irish Revolution examines diverse aspects of women’s experiences in the revolution after the Easter Rising. The complex role of women as activists, the detrimental impact of violence and social and political divisions on women, the role of women in the foundation of the new State, and dynamics of remembrance and forgetting are explored in detail by leading scholars in sociology, history, politics, and literary studies. Important and timely, and featuring previously unpublished material, this book will prompt essential new public conversations on the experiences of women in the Irish revolution.

Author : David Burke
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781178010

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Kitson's Irish War by David Burke Pdf

The British government has taken steps to halt the prosecution of soldiers responsible for the deaths of civilians in Northern Ireland, most of whom had no connection to paramilitary activities. These killings were part of a ruthless dirty war that commenced in 1970 when Brigadier Frank Kitson, a counter-insurgency specialist, was sent to Northern Ireland. Kitson had spent decades in Britain's colonies refining old, and developing new, techniques which he applied in Northern Ireland. He became the architect of a clandestine war, waged against Nationalists while ignoring Loyalist atrocities. Kitson and his colleagues were responsible for: •The establishment of the clandestine Military Reaction Force (MRF) which carried out assassinations on the streets of Belfast of suspected IRA members; •They unleashed the most violent elements of the Parachute Regiment [1 Para] to terrorise Nationalist communities which, they adjudged, were providing support for the Official and Provisional IRA; •Spreading black propaganda designed to undermine Republican but not Loyalist paramilitary groups; •Deployed psychological warfare techniques, involving the torture of internees; •Sent Kitson's 'Private Army' – Support Company of 1 Para - to Derry where they perpetrated the Bloody Sunday massacre. The British Widgery and Saville inquiries did not hold Kitson and his elite troops accountable for Bloody Sunday. Kitson's Irish War lays bare the evidence they discounted: Kitson's role in the events leading up to and surrounding that massacre; evidence from a deserter from 1 Para who joined the IRA; a deceitful MI5 agent; a courageous whistle blower whom the British state tried to discredit, and much more, all of which points to a motive for the attack on the Bogside. This book unlocks the some of the key secrets of the Dirty War that the British government is still determined to cover-up.

Author : Ralph Keefer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773511423

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Grounded in Eire by Ralph Keefer Pdf

The story of two RAF fliers interned in Ireland during World War II.

Author : Tina O'Toole,Gillian McIntosh,Muireann Ó'Cinnéide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1910820113

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Women Writing War by Tina O'Toole,Gillian McIntosh,Muireann Ó'Cinnéide Pdf

A thought provoking volume which explores women's writing about conflicts during the early 20th century.